I love most things about playing fantasy baseball leagues, but I especially love the push/pull of short versus long-term outcomes. I play a lot of dynasty, keeper and redraft leagues of various shapes and sizes, so the range of values I might place on a prospect in a given league is wide.
Not here, though, where I’ll be going full cut-throat, win-the-money redraft style.
I don’t know why anyone will be cutting throats. I love that phrase, but yikes, what a thing to say in casual conversation, huh?
This list won’t turn out to be 100 percent accurate, but it will reflect many hours of trade talks, gameplay, research, roller coasters and centrifuges of thought, educated guesswork, and dash of the psychology motivating humans working within a nihilistic capitalist structure.
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- Note: I wasn’t sure how to handle innings caps. Every pitcher got dinged a little for the purposes of this list because some/most organizations will be very conservative pushing pitchers from 30-something (or zero) innings up above 100 (or more).
| Rank | Player | Team |
| 1 | OF Randy Arozarena | TB |
| 2 | OF Jarred Kelenic | SEA |
| 3 | OF Julio Rodriguez | SEA |
| 4 | RHP Ian Anderson | ATL |
| 5 | RHP Sixto Sanchez | MIA |
| 6 | OF Dylan Carlson | STL |
| 7 | 1B Ryan Mountcastle | BAL |
| 8 | SS Wander Franco | TB |
| 9 | 1B Andrew Vaughn | CHW |
| 10 | OF Jo Adell | LAA |
| 11 | SP Nate Pearson | TOR |
| 12 | SP Triston McKenzie | CLE |
| 13 | SP Tarik Skubal | DET |
| 14 | SP MacKenzie Gore | SD |
| 15 | 1B OF Alex Kirilloff | MIN |
| 16 | 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes | PIT |
| 17 | C Joey Bart | SF |
| 18 | RHP Casey Mize | DET |
| 19 | C Alejandro Kirk | TOR |
| 20 | 2B Nick Madrigal | CHW |
| 21 | 2B Jeter Downs | BOS |
| 22 | RHP Tejay Antone | CIN |
| 23 | SS Jazz Chisholm | MIA |
| 24 | RHP Michael Kopech | CHW |
| 25 | RHP Luis Garcia | HOU |
| 26 | RHP Dean Kremer | BAL |
| 27 | 2B Vidal Brujan | TB |
| 28 | 3B Spencer Torkelson | DET |
| 29 | LHP Garrett Crochet | CHW |
| 30 | RHP Luis Patiño | SD |
| 31 | RHP Clarke Schmidt | NYY |
| 32 | RHP Dane Dunning | CHW |
| 33 | LHP Brailyn Marquez | CHC |
| 34 | RHP Spencer Howard | PHI |
| 35 | C Adley Rutschman | BAL |
| 36 | 1B Lewin Diaz | MIA |
| 37 | OF Pavin Smith | ARI |
| 38 | RHP Logan Gilbert | SEA |
| 39 | RHP Brent Honeywell | TB |
| 40 | RHP Forrest Whitley | HOU |
| 41 | RHP George Kirby | SEA |
| 42 | OF Cristian Pache | ATL |
| 43 | LHP Trevor Rogers | MIA |
| 44 | OF Drew Waters | ATL |
| 45 | RHP Max Meyer | MIA |
| 46 | LHP Reid Detmers | LAA |
| 47 | SS Jose Garcia | CIN |
| 48 | RHP Deivi Garcia | NYY |
| 49 | RHP Tanner Houck | BOS |
| 50 | OF Jared Oliva | PIT |
| 51 | OF Trevor Larnach | MIN |
| 52 | RHP Joe Ryan | TB |
| 53 | RHP Josiah Gray | LAD |
| 54 | RHP Simeon Woods Richardson | TOR |
| 55 | OF Monte Harrison | MIA |
| 56 | LHP AJ Puk | OAK |
| 57 | RHP Daulton Jefferies | OAK |
| 58 | C Sam Huff | TEX |
| 59 | 3B Bobby Dalbec | BOS |
| 60 | C Ryan Jeffers | MIN |
| 61 | LHP David Peterson | NYM |
| 62 | C Luis Campusano | SD |
| 63 | RHP Adbert Alzolay | CHC |
| 64 | RHP Jackson Kowar | KC |
| 65 | C Daulton Varsho | ARI |
| 66 | OF Leody Taveras | TEX |
| 67 | 3B Isaac Paredes | DET |
| 68 | RHP Edward Cabrera | MIA |
| 69 | LHP Ryan Weathers | SD |
| 70 | C Tyler Stephenson | CIN |
| 71 | SS Oneil Cruz | PIT |
| 72 | OF Jesus Sanchez | MIA |
| 73 | RHP Jhoan Duran | MIN |
| 74 | OF Edward Olivares | KC |
| 75 | RHP Miguel Yajure | NYY |
| 76 | 2B Brendan Rodgers | COL |
| 77 | LHP Kris Bubic | KC |
| 78 | LHP Keegan Akin | BAL |
| 79 | OF Mickey Moniak | PHI |
| 80 | LHP Daniel Lynch | KC |
| 81 | OF Seth Beer | ARI |
| 82 | 3B Nolan Jones | CLE |
| 83 | OF Josh Lowe | TB |
| 84 | RHP Jonathan Stiever | CHW |
| 85 | C Rafael Marchan | PHI |
| 86 | OF Daz Cameron | DET |
| 87 | OF Yusniel Diaz | BAL |
| 88 | OF Jorge Oña | SD |
| 89 | OF Brandon Marsh | LAA |
| 90 | OF Stuart Fairchild | ARI |
| 91 | C Keibert Ruiz | LAD |
| 92 | OF Jarren Duran | BOS |
| 93 | LHP Shane McClanahan | TB |
| 94 | RHP Sam Delaplane | SEA |
| 95 | LHP Tucker Davidson | ATL |
| 96 | RHP Cory Abbott | CHC |
| 97 | 2B Zack McKinstry | LAD |
| 98 | OF Daniel Johnson | CLE |
| 99 | RHP Thad Ward | BOS |
| 100 | LHP Jay Groome | BOS |
Quick moves:
Julio Rodriguez is a monster. Here he is swatting an easy blast the other day.
I moved Ian Anderson below Kelenic and J-Rod, partly because I love the Mariners’ bats, partly because Grey made a strong case in his Ian Anderson, 2021 Fantasy Outlook.
Thanks for reading!
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