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.
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