Top 40 outfielders for 2025 fantasy baseball are here and they’re purdy like your little mouth! Sorry, been wanting to watch Deliverance, but can’t find it streaming, so been reenacting it from my memories with some toys I bought at a yard sale. *holds up Miss Piggy plushie* Squeal, Piggy! So, here’s Steamer’s 2025 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Hitters and 2025 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Pitchers. Subscriptions are up and running, and you can already get Rudy’s Draft War Room. Anyway, here’s the top 40 outfielders for 2025 fantasy baseball:
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21. Lawrence Butler – This tier started in the top 20 outfielders. This tier ends at Schwarber. I called this tier, “Goldilocks of adults.” As for Butler, I nearly ranked Butler above multiple guys in the previous tier in the top 20 outfielders. I kinda love Butler like I’m the governor on Benson. There’s much to love here: Power at every level, so 22 HRs last year in only 125 games is the iceberg and that iceberg sunk Oakland and now he’s hitting in a minor league park for home games with some new winds blowing out. The speed is easy 20-steal speed, and the pitch clock could make that 30. He only K’d 23.9% of the time, and in Triple-A he was regularly a sub-20 K% guy. Hard contact and lots of it? Give me more shares please. The only thing that stopped me from being stupid and moving him up, and not being an Adult Goldilocks, was his lack of track record and the A’s might lack counting stats. Saw someone draft Luis Robert Jr. before Butler and I wish I were in that league. 2025 Projections: 84/27/67/.269/23 in 581 ABs
22. Seiya Suzuki – Was the opposite of Butler. I wanted to lower Seiya before Goldlicks’ing him here. Health, increasing Ks, and Cubs really want to trade him were my concerns and they all felt kinda made-up and dumb. He just hit .283, so his Ks went up to 27.4%, but clearly that wasn’t an issue. He’s yet to play a full season, but his numbers were still 21/16/.283. 15th best outfielder on the Player Rater. So, dot dot dot, where am I supposed to rank a guy who is the 15th best outfielder in only 132 games? That much lower than this? Why? I’m fine with the Goldilocks’ing I’ve done here. 2025 Projections: 75/23/81/.281/15 in 519 ABs
23. Riley Greene – Have I mentioned that I wrote a Riley Greene sleeper last year? I did? I’ve mentioned it every day for the last 12 months? Okay, point taken. This ranking is basically same as his ranking on last year’s Player Rater when he went 82/24/74/.262/4 in 512 ABs. That feels like his absolute floor. Tigers didn’t run at all (just barely more than Ohtani himself). That feels more like a Tigers problem than a Greene problem, i.e., they have a bunch of 25/2 hitters, and no 30/30 guys. Greene does appear like he has 12+ steal speed, and not under-five. The power, Hard Hit% and everything is perfect. So, 30/12/.280 or 24/4/.260 again, either way it’s valuable. 2025 Projections: 74/27/86/.274/7 in 527 ABs
24. Anthony Santander – Signed with the Jays because the Dodgers clearly didn’t want him. I kid. But, a thoughtful pause, am I kidding? Jays were so thirsty for a free agency win they gave Santander about three years too many and fifty-plus million more than they should’ve, but it ain’t my money, and, for this year, I still would happily draft him. Is he trending up after a 44-homer season? I’d be shocked. Is he about to fall off a cliff and become former Jays great, Cliff Johnson? [looking at Cliff’s career numbers] No, he’s not. The 80’s were a hilarious time for power hitters. Cliff Johnson and DHs in the 80’s were, like, 15-homer hitters. Cliff Johnson and the DHs would be an awesome band, though. 2025 Projections: 84/36/97/.244/3 in 588 ABs
25. Bryan Reynolds – As a long-time fan and defender of Bryan Reynolds, I want to ask for all his haters to show their face. They will be scorned! Where are The Bryan Reynolds Haters now to tell me he’s not this good? [intern whispers] I was the one who hated Reynolds? Hmm, let’s keep that between us. Reynolds now has 24/10 across the last two seasons and hit .275 last year. You might not like him –I did not for a long time — but [shrugs] his ranking is Goldilocks’d to perfection here. Because I’m a grown-ass adult! 2025 Projections: 84/25/87/.272/10 in 591 ABs
26. Kyle Schwarber – This might be the biggest “Look at me, I’m an adult Goldilocks,” as I put on my big boy pants and admit Schwarber is great, if you’re looking for that. *That* being a 40-homer, .240 hitter. *That* is not *that* bad either. Last year, he raised his average, by leveling off his bat, and hitting the ball more “right over the 2nd baseman” and less “Let me try to do a ba-zoomer over the right fielder’s head” while still doing ba-zoomers! 2025 Projections: 106/40/105/.231/3 in 581 ABs
27. Ian Happ – This is a new tier. This tier goes from here until Cowser. I call this tier, “Projections, schmjections, but rankings, schmankings.” Can’t believe we’ve gotten this deep into the rankings and I haven’t talked about rankings vs. projections. An incredible omission. Dot dot dot. If not for having discussed this exact topic about 500 other times in previous rankings posts. Any hoo! I will say quickly: Is 18/18/.282 better than 25/10/.245? No, right? Wrong, sucker! It could be, but there’s more to projections and rankings than simply numbers. I’m talking about Michael Harris II vs. Happ here, for unstints, and Harris’s 18/18/.282 is at least equal if not better than Happ’s 25/10/.245 but Happ was the 16th best outfielder last year, and Harris was barely in the top 60. There’s things like this in the rankings that aren’t always readily apparent from projections. I want Happ more because he just puts up solid stats year over year. Trout? More in a shallow league where I can readily replace him when he’s hurt. So, Harris over Trout in deeper leagues? Sure. If you have Trea Turner and Corbin Carroll, you better not be drafting Pete Crow-Armstrong from this tier. There’s more to all of this than simply looking at one guy’s name over another guy’s name. As I’ve said many times in the past, there’s no way anyone is ranking for every single league. That’s why we have rankings for dozens of different leagues. It’s also why it’s so silly when Fantasy Pros ranks the best rankings, even if I was ranked number one last year. 2025 Projections: 86/24/69/.247/12 in 571 ABs
28. Mike Trout – Four of his last five years are so sad. The decline of Mike Trout is depressing. Stupid degenerative back condition. Baseball really is the cruelest sport. We could’ve had one of the best of all-time. Instead, we got one of the best ten-year stretches in baseball history. Still a feat, but Quentin Tarantino ain’t digging feats, ya feel me? 2025 Projections: 48/21/57/.265/5 in 349 ABs
Mike Trout was such a special one before his body broke down
— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) December 12, 2024 at 8:26 AM
29. Pete Crow-Armstrong – I was so close to writing a PCA sleeper to the point where I searched through my sleeper posts twice looking for it, thinking I did write it. I guess I hadn’t, but I really wanted to. The truly hilarious thing is I don’t know why I didn’t write it. Maybe it was because I felt like he was properly ranked. That’s a point that isn’t made enough. It seems to be that I write a sleeper post and it puts a flashing light on a guy, but just because I didn’t write a post about a guy doesn’t mean he’s not well-liked by me. He’s just well-liked by everyone, maybe. PCA’s ADP seems to fall into that category. I love the 15/30/.230 potential, and everyone does. Well, giddy up, PCA pardners! He has 20-homer power, 40-steal speed and could hit .260+. His one real drawback is the Cubs need to bat him higher in the order. Guys breakout every year, and this year it feels like PCA’s chance. There’s not many guys who could be as huge a breakout as PCA, and you must draft him. I implore you, even if I didn’t write a sleeper on him. 2025 Projections: 59/14/66/.248/32 in 510 ABs
30. Jasson Dominguez – Already gave you my Jasson Dominguez fantasy. It starred in an adult film named Chutzpah & Hoohah. 2025 Projections: 68/26/76/.232/25 in 527 ABs
31. Dylan Crews – Already gave you my Dylan Crews fantasy. It had pretty little butterflies. 2025 Projections: 72/16/67/.258/26 in 517 ABs
32. Heliot Ramos – Already gave you my Heliot Ramos sleeper. It was written while making gaga-goo-goo sounds. 2025 Projections: 79/26/78/.266/10 in 549 ABs
33. Colton Cowser – I eyeballed Cowser’s spray chart (sounds like one of the worst euphemisms you could imagine) and it looks like he would’ve gained three homers last year if the fences were moved in, as they are now. Eyeballing is an inexact science (and, damn, just say what you mean rather than these euphemisms), so take it or leave it, but what I never understand with other projections systems is how they always expect young players to get worse. “He hit 24 homers last year as a rookie? Cool, let’s see if he can barely squeak out 20 homers this year!” Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t love some aspects of his game for batting average, but he swings for homers and has power. 2025 Projections: 74/27/82/.234/11 in 512 ABs
34. Michael Harris II – This is a new tier. This tier goes from here until Robert. I call this tier, “Excavating out my 10-foot skeleton and putting in these guys.” So, after Halloween, as most of us do, I dig a 10-foot grave in my front yard and bury my giant, decorative skeleton until next year when it sticks its hand through the soil around September 1st. Well, I’m digging up Fred, the 10-foot Skeleton, and putting him in the passenger seat of my convertible for the HOV lane, and in his place I’m putting the guys in this tier. Burying them!
As for Megahertz, some day I hope you love someone like projections systems love Megahertz. He’s averaged 17 HRs and 15 steals across two seasons. Last year, he went 16/10/.264. Off year? Sure, okay. During his “great” year, he went 18/20/.293. He’s being drafted way before this. Why? Prolly because projections systems are saying he’s going to have a career year, just as they said last year too. I’m sorry, but I got a squad together called the Megahaterz and all we do is hate on Megahertz, because I just don’t get the love. He is literally (not literally) the only guy who projections systems always think will be better. (Also Vlad Jr.) 2025 Projections: 74/18/62/.282/18 in 523 ABs
35. Christian Yelich – Him and Cody Bellinger were forever linked in rankings and ADP. Why? I honestly don’t know. They really had nothing in common besides always being next to each other in rankings and ADP. Like always until this year. Don’t look it up, it might not have been always. But it felt like always. Now they are sadly linked by “one has a recurring shoulder issue” and “one has one in his back.” Not sure which is worse, but they’re both equally less than ideal. Back feels more recurring. Recurringier? Yeah, that’s a word. Yet, like a cruel father, I separated these two brothers after Bellinger went to the Cubs, because he’s younger and 25/12 feels more achievable than Yelich’s 12/25 for an aging player with back issues. Maybe they’ll find each other again on the Player Rater at the end of the year. One can hope. 2025 Projections: 68/13/63/.281/22 in 461 ABs
36. Randy Arozarena – The Rice Bowl is super fun. He wears cowboy boots and looks like an undercover sheriff in Narcos. His peripherals? Oh man they’re terrible and not fun at all. xBA is a weak stat. It doesn’t work for various reasons. His xBA was .219. Dude. I mean. C’mon. He made some of the worst contact I’ve seen. He makes about the same contact as Nick Fortes. Oh…[climbs to the top of the Empire State Building]…kay. That’s not great, over-the-internet friends. Oh, yeah, and he’s in one of the worst hitting parks. An emoji that is checking the Help Wanted ads because it can no longer emoji. 2025 Projections: 72/19/74/.225/24 in 556 ABs
37. Adolis Garcia – If you’ve followed me for a minute — an Urban Dictionary minute which means you’ve followed me for years — you know I did everything I could to be positive on Adolis. Me love him long time. Tried everything I could to get him in front of Randy, but, at the end of the day, the batted ball profile for Adolis does not age well, and it’s aging rapidly. Also, for merely Randy vs. Adolis: 20/20/.225 vs. 25/10/.225 is advantage Randy, if only barely. 2025 Projections: 71/27/84/.218/10 in 581 ABs
38. Luis Robert Jr. – Has he been traded yet? What, have the White Sox not received Paul Skenes and Oneil Cruz for him? Have they not received Jordan Lawlar, Ketel Marte and Zac Gallen? Are you telling me they’re asking for too much? C’mon, no way. I don’t believe it, because the White Sox are well-run organization and wouldn’t do something silly like that. Chris just Getz it. They just traded Crochet for…Oh, I know, offer a catcher for Robert, that’ll do it. Maybe Pedro Pages for Lou Bob? Any hoo! Looking at LouBob’s previous season and I must warn you, it’s much stinkier than you could ever imagine, if you’re not familiar. Pee-ewe, my stinky, that is bad. He went 14/23/.224 with 47 runs and 35 RBIs in almost 400 ABs! That’s Leody Taveras with worse counting stats. If you’re getting back in on LouBob because you think you’re buying low, well, good luck, but it ain’t me. 2025 Projections: 68/20/58/.233/25 in 518 ABs
39. Alec Burleson – This is a new tier. This tier goes until the top 60 outfielders. I call this tier, “Yo, who da eff is you.” Here’s the thing, we all have blindspots. I’m no different. It’s not because I can’t see something because my gorgeous hair is obstructing my vision. The guys in this tier all are in this blindspot of mine where I have no idea who they are. It’s not that I dislike these guys. I just don’t fully know who they are. Not yet, at least.
40. Lane Thomas – He might be the King of Who Da Eff Is You. Thomas is a 10/30 guy, no, he’s a 15/15 guy, no, he’s a 20/20 guy, no, he’s a 12/35 guy, no no no no no no–Who is you?! I get that he was on the Nats for the 1st half of last year, and that team runs a lot, so that helped him with steals, then he went to the Guardians, and only Jose Ramirez runs there, because he likely has carte blanche, but why does Thomas’s power fluctuate so much? I don’t know who Lane Thomas is, which is fine to draft, but you have account for some variance. 2025 Projections: 71/18/75/.242/20 in 512 ABs
As for Burleson, already went over him in the top 20 1st basemen for 2025 fantasy baseball.
CONTINUE ONTO THE TOP 60 OUTFIELDERS FOR 2025 FANTASY BASEBALL
12-team roto league with 5 keepers/team (keep forever): I’m keeping Corbin and Wyatt but need three more, who do you like from Caminero, William Contreras, Riley Green, Josh Naylor, Casas, and Santander?
Caminero, Naylor and Contreras
Thanks! I also have Imanaga, so even though I lean away from keeping SP with only 5 keepers, he could be worth holding onto given my other options.
Is the definition of insanity drafting Riley Greene every year and expecting different results? I can’t quit him, and every year, I’m convinced he’s gonna bust out, but I’m wondering if .270 with 25 HR is all I can really expect. Not that that’s bad or anything, but not the 30 HR/40 2B/15 SB guy hitting .285 that I want him to be.
30/15/.260 is very solid if he can get there and the steals are just about want, the rest is basically achievable
I would absolutely love that. I just keep expecting 30 and getting not-30. But I will try again. It’s crazy how young he still is. It feels like he’s been in the league for 5+ years.
You have never once drafted Riley Greene expect 30 HR, and you have never found yourself with him on your roster and another 25 HR year. I think you might be a clinically insane person. Or just a pathological prevaricator.
Riley debuted in 2022 as a 21 year old. He got 418 PA and hit 5 HR with a .258 Avg.
In 2023, as a 22-year old, he was injured in May. He ended up with 416 PA, increased his HR to 11, and rode a .383 BABIP to a .288 Avg.
In neither season did he eclipse 100 games played, and in neither season did a single human being go into it and draft Riley Greene expecting 30 HR. Patently false, a pure canard.
Last year, in 2024, as a 23-year old, the highest I can find him projected for HR is FantasyPros at 24 HR. Of all the projection systems out there. Grey had him projected for 84/21/61/.274/12.
If you went into last year expecting Greene to hit 30 HR – you didn’t, everything you typed was a complete fabrication, but if you did – that would leave only you to blame. A 23-year old that had never topped 11 HR or 420 PA in a season, never hit more than 24 HR in a season in the minors, wasn’t projected for more than 24 HR in 2024 by any site, playing in a ballpark that’s notorious for hurting LH HR output, went out and hit….. 24 HR.
Last year was as expected, everything went as good as anyone expected it to, and your comment is just the internet equivalent of mainstream media literally making up every story to fit what they think people want to hear in that moment, but being wrong about it. This is me biting my tongue so hard that I know have two tongues, but I’m guessing that Scioscia must’ve been a person who could never tell a lie. If he was, then I guess you are the anti-Scioscia. Because I’ve never read such a completely false and clearly made up exchange, and Grey has the patience of Job, if Job was still in the middle of his trials today, to humor you as much as he did. Touch grass and stop lying, homie. Gross.
And no, Einstein never said that. He wrote it, in his address for the 7th anniversary of Israel, but he died before he could read it and dress down the leaders of Israel for lying as much as they were. Luckily he wrote a draft that survived after his death, this and his nuclear manifesto were his last two works. It’s why Einstein has 2 plaques in DC, one at his statue and one at the Academy of Sciences, and both read “The right to search for truth implies also a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
But what does Einstein know, with all his true/false, right/wrong, yes/no, hypothesize and provide empirical proof, science-schmience stuff, ammirite?
I am not well versed in all this so please correct me if I am wrong. The Jays signed Scherzer and have a full 40 man roster. They can sign him to fill their DL spot, correct? I kid I kid. I love Max and hope he bounces back. Jays just make no sense. Kikuchi to Scherzer in an already old rotation? Vlad is walking. They should trade him and Bichette before the latter trips in an elevator.
10 team salary cap team. Would you rather keep Yainer Diaz for $7 or Jasson Dominguez for $1. Thank you
Jasson
Thanks
Read somewhere Acuña will likely miss the first month Do your projections contemplate that much missed time?
Yeah, that’s the word…I have him down for missing 20 games, so yeah roughly April
Grey, What are you projections for Pete Alonso on the 1B rankings you had Pete Alonso – FREE AGENT 2025 Projections: ?????
Can you give me the numbers?
think 37/.245
Since I’m still owed a dinner from the 2023 Rays win total (ha!), double or nothing on Harris being a top 25 OF this season based on our Player Rater? Probably can even push me to doing Top 20 if you want. Think you’re doing him a bit of a disservice not calling his 19/20/.297 in 114 games rookie season his great year. Steals were down last season because of the hammy injury, counting stats should massively improve since the entire team bottomed out besides Ozuna, and he’s a neutral .280 hitter (probably better) with how often he hard hit / barrels the ball. If that Seiya season was 15th on the PR missing some counting stats due to Seiya missing time, top 20 seems like a median outcome for Harris.
I do think he generally gets a bit overrated in fantasy because big baseball fans who dabble in fantasy see him as someone who realistically can have a 6-7 WAR season and end up on MVP ballots because of his elite defense. Just seems like you went too far in the other direction. I think he belongs in the 19-27 tier (so I’m still probably not going to end up with him outside of my biggest keeper league haha). You lay out the Happ vs. Harris case, but that’s entirely driven by Happ playing 43 more games last season and the counting stats that come with that. In deeper leagues, I can see it just since Happ never gets hurt, but in 12’ers where you can easily fill someone in for Harris if he gets a fluky injury again, I can’t get anywhere close to Happ > Harris
Haha…Yes, double or nothing! Happ was the 14th best OF last year and Harris was 56th, and, yes, Harris missed games, but that’s his modus operandi…so…well, we’ll see. One of these years Harris will stay healthy and be worthwhile, but we could’ve said that the last 3 years, tho 2023 was healthy enough, I suppose
Well as a Braves fan it’s easier for me to remember, but he wasn’t hurt at all in 2022, he made his debut in very late May and then played almost every game (I think literally every game as it came down to the bitter end vs. the Mets for the division but not 100%), so I do think the injury bug with him is a bit overblown, but time will tell, perhaps I will be made a fool haha
Where are you overall by the end of this list? 130’s?
Around there, yeah
Di you like Michael King for $17 or Brandon Pfaaft for $12 as a keeper?
King
Pick one from King, Aaron Nola or Logan Webb to keep for this year (my other SP keepers will be Cease and Snell). Leaning KIng right now.
King
Thank you
No problem
Been listening to the podcast! Totally agree on Acuña and the stats even if he misses two weeks. In shallow leagues, yahoo redrafts, how about Acuna, with Trout later?! Chances they are out at the same time?
I like my chances of finding a filler in a 12-team 3 OF league.
Yeah, I don’t hate it…If you can fill in off waivers for the other time, you’re getting a top 10 player from Acuna and a top 50 guy from Trout
Good to see “My Favorite Martian” make the list with his 20/20 floor and a chance for more! I can see him taking NYC by storm. Problem is I’ve got an owner in my home league who is a die-hard Yankee fan and will undoubtedly be in snipe mode on Jasson. Have a great day, nice writeup
Thanks! I regret not going higher on Jasson last night in my auction
I’ve taken him in rds 6, 7 & 10 so far in 3 DC’s. My home league is a 12 teamer, thoughts on when to jump?
Seager? That sounds like great value…He’s same as last year for me…around 35
No the Martian. 6 prob too early, but 10 seems late.
Oh! Martian is around 110 for me, I think…So, in 15-team leagues, that’s around 7th to 8th round, I think…
OK thanks, hope I can snag him.
No problem
Hey Grey,
I’ve got 5 OF from “Projections, schmjections, but rankings, schmankings.” teir and only 3 that I can keep. Happ, Meadows, Trout, Crews and Dominguez. I’m leaning Meadows, Crews, Dominguez. What do you think?
Keepers, schmeepers, if you will…Meadows, Crews, Dominguez
Grey,
In a 12 team keeper HTH Categories league where we can keep 3 with a budget of 260. Already keeping Ohtani ($41) and Duran Duran ($8). The decision is between my last pick: James Wood @ $5 or Tarik Skubal @ $23.
I may be overthinking it, but I always feel like I can pick up quality pitchers throughout the year (thanks to your help as well). But I also know I can’t pick up anything like Skubal, even though keeping Wood helps my overall budget and gives me extra flexibility. What are your thoughts, and thank you for all that you do!
Tarik
My league added teams – from 12 to 14 6×6, Draft first SP still rounds 4 or 5?
What’s the 6th cat? Holds? Around 50 overall, yes
W K ERA (blah) WHIP QS NSVH
Really pushing Commish to eliminate ERA (Yahoo) What options does commish have, if any, for replacement?
I don’t know about Yahoo options tbh…around 50 overall works tho
Looking forward to Jordan Walker posts on Bluesky
As always, much appreciated.
Haha nice!
Chutzpah and Hoohah?
I’ll take…. ‘things missing from my college experience’ Alex!
HAHA
Ahh shizz…my original comment got flagged for spam -No worries, my handle so Russia Bot sounding that it’s good to know the algorithm’s up to speed.
Great write up -always make a point to get two great OF’s in every draft and find the Top 20/40 most useful. Thanks Grey!
sorry about that, I unflagged it — thanks!
I think the Reynolds blurb is my favorite this year.
I read the first line and thought, “That doesn’t sound right.”
hehe
As a fellow hater of Reynolds, for no real good reason, just never bought in and he never burned me, I too thought the same thing.
Thanks, Vin!
I like the upside & bounce back potential of Josh Lowe especially hitting in a minor league park. Thought he would be listed in the 30s but I will have to wait till tomorrow to get your thoughts on him.
His problem is health
I got him for $12 last night and was pretty happy with that. Just remains to be seen if he’s going to be chronically injured or if last year was the anomaly. Even in a down year he went 10/25. The platooning puts a bit of a ceiling on his RuBis. Also I just now came up with RuBi for runs plus rbis and I kinda like it.
I like RuBis
Can’t believe no one’s said RuBis before
quest for the glossary started early this year
I really like RuBis
I was targeting him too but spent way too much early had to go stars and scrubs and he is not a scrub. Good buy. Got my clock cleaned in pitching but there is always pitching. Figured get hitters a minimize injury risk. Eager to see how it all plays out
was a good room. had to stay sharp
Note out this morning stating that the Reds were trying to trade for Luis Robert Jr before signing Austin Hays.
The idiot White Sox and their asking price must be sky high. But from a fantasy perspective the Reds would seem to be a bad landing spot for Robert Jr due to an already crowded outfield.
Anyway in a keep forever league would you keep Luis Robert over Royce Lewis? You have the projected for similar numbers this year, except for the steals.
I don’t know what the White Sox are doing, there’s no way they’re competing so they should get something for him….Yeah, over Lewis, but barely…
Thanks. After last season I made a vow to avoid injury risk this season so am only going to keep one of Buxton, Robert Jr, Lewis and Josh Lowe. Probably Robert Jr for the upside. But all four of those guys killed my offense last season with so many missed games.
Yeah, they’re brutal to trust
we both ended up with weird teams. not a single guy on my team that i would have had on my “target” list (if i’d been prepared enough to make one). sort of working with the assumption that 5-6 guys i drafted will be off my team after the first faab. so much stuff will happen between now and opening day.
That was a ton of fun! Seager is my “Gerrit Cole last year”…I’d never draft him, but he was priced well so I had to….Think I’m going to have a lot of shares of Acuña…and I think I’d skip Sal P. and Roki for Shota, but overall pretty happy
The Seager buy came on my only momentary lapse of attention last night. I for sure would have pushed that up. When I saw where you got him I did a swear.
My team feels so mid. My highest spend was $29 on Harper. Had a lot of guys coming of down years who were priced considerably lower than last year. Autsin Riley, Gallen, CJ Abe.
Royce Lewis I wasn’t particularly interested in but decided I could use some upside at some point. $12 didn’t feel like a terrible price there.
I thought Lewis was your best buy and I don’t like him at all…It’s a good upside gamble for $12…Last year he was going for what? $25? Nothing’s changed with his upside and downside…I don’t mind your team at all, I love Gallen this year and back in on CJ and Austin…I don’t love my OF, but I figure that is most available on waivers
LA Acuna finishes higher on the player rather than Ron…..people were saying Lewis legs are Swiss cheese after he tore his acl twice I guess the same can be said of Ron
Ron Darling?
Ronald Acuna.
ah, ok, this “LA Acuna finishes higher on the player rather than Ron” lost me
He seems very Royce Lewis Mike trout to me…..
yeah, maybe, or a league winner as he returns and gives top 20 hitter numbers in 5 months
LA LuisAngel. I’m just Messing with you Grey….one can dream can’t he?
Oh gotcha
As a Dodger fan wish they would’ve kept Corey. Hurt last year, but still in his prime with one of the best swings in the game. Don’t run, but was 88/33/96/.327 in ’23! Nice pickup
It was an excellent price too!
I had the opposite experience I got most of the guys I was targeting but probably overpaid. My regret was the endgame some of the targets went to different teams because no money haha
Looking under the hood and squinting exceptionally hard, can you see Parker Meadows pulling off a Lawrence Butler?
I wrote a whole sleeper post for him — we all forget that players who weren’t yet great become great
Lawrence Butler a first round pick next year….
I like how you’re thinking
Decisions decisions…$13 Westburg or $6 PCA?is it close? 6×6 roto obp
Westburg
Hey Grey! Longtime follower and fan of work you Rudy and the team do here. Really great stuff!
– All in for the PCA – wheels up!
– I have Michael Harris II in a keeper league and have gotten used to the “prayer circle” point(s) of the season when the lower body injuries arise. You may have unknowingly initiated some sort of dark underworld ritual instead where Megahertz “a rises” from a grave to push 30/30 and uses his new dark arts powers to win a NL batting title. Lunacy aside, I’ll take the rock solid floor built on consistent barrel % and K% and bet on the upside based on the fact his Max EV has gone up a tick each year and that he rakes vs Lefties.
-Totally agree that Lawrence Butler and want to do a switcharoo with Bellinger from yesterday’s article but based on fact the whether there’s 2 outs, 1 outs or no outs – he’s batting with no one, he’s probably ranked accordingly.
Thanks Grey- without a doubt Balboni played Bass for Cliff Johnson and DH’s!
Also, Cody and Butler are in same tier, so they’re same, depending on preference or team situation
Cliff Johnson!
Happy off-season, Grey!
Starting to think about SP/P keepers.
Can keep up to 5 SPs of Wheeler ($32), Peralta ($40), Gausman ($22), H. Brown ($5), J. Ryan ($4), Flaherty ($4), and May ($1). I could also keep top 4 and then keep someone like J. Adam ($1), Phillips ($4), or Whitlock ($1), since we count NSVH.
Don’t keep RPs
Not if those are your options
Hey grey! Keep forever, would you trade your $4 Wood for $9 Corbin? Wondering if my hesitance is just prospect hugging…
Yes
I would like to trade for an infielder in my dynasty league. I have a ton of OF but am weak at MI and 3B. Are there players at those positions who might be a bit underrated who I should target in return for Harris? If he’s overrated going into the season, I should strike while the iron’s hot! Any suggestions on who to start asking about and see if I can get an owner to bite?
Depends what others have…Maybe someone like Riley?
Lovin’ this stuff, Grey!
For these 21-40 OF’s, would you rank any of them higher in H2H points leagues? I’m thinking specifically of the Schwarbomber but there are others I like too.
Thanks once again!
Why Schwarbs? Not that I disagree, just wondering…Yelich comes to mind bc when he’s hurt you just replace him
I just think of Schwarbs as someone who has more value in points leagues — BA doesn’t matter, and depending on the scoring, the walks help cancel out the SO’s (maybe; need to check Steamer). Now if only he wasn’t batting first…
Yeah, there’s Yelich too, but I notice that you say WHEN he’s hurt, not IF.
Thanks!
Ah gotcha, that makes sense…Sorry, IF
Useful to keep hearing reinforcements on those Harris Jr sentiments. I’m addicted to him, for whatever reason, and keep thinking his complete year is coming. Yet his draft spot and auction price are always around the same as other more interesting/useful players, and it’s not like his price is that cheap for a true buy low. I will try to ween myself off him, he’s like the tobacco in the charros that keeps me wanting more.
They really need to stop putting nicotine in the churros
Would you rather have $7 Kjerstad or $6 Encarnacion-Stand in a 12 team ottoneu points format? Thanks
Neither? I guess CES
Where does Ozuna rank? Thanks!
He’ll be ranked in the top 100, I think around 80…He doesn’t have OF elig.