Top 400 Dynasty Players For 2025: 25-1

Welcome back everyone! After weeks of counting down the top dynasty players starting at No. 400, this is the week when the final 25 players are revealed.

It’s been a long journey, but a fun one. But the end is here so let’s look at the breakdown and then get to the rankings.

Not surprisingly, the largest group of players fall in the Age 20-24 range with 12 this week. On the other end, the 30-year-old and up group, I still have four players making my top 24. But when you see who those four players are, you shouldn’t be surprised to see them here.

And if you have been wondering where all the top outfielders have been, well, you found them. Twelve outfielders make my final top 25 players, followed by four shortstops. This shouldn’t be too surprising as the top athletes are playing at short or in the outfield.

Age of Players

• Age 20-24 – 12
• Age 25-29 – 9
• Age 30+ – 4

Position Breakdown

• SP – 3
• 1B – 1
• 2B – 1
• SS – 4
• 3B – 3
• OF –12
• IF/OF – 1

Anyway, enough small talk. Let’s get to the rankings.

25-21

*Age as of April 1, 2025D

**Minimum 10 games played at each position listed. If less than 10, then position most played

***Until the Athletics are actually in Las Vegas, players on the team will be listed as OAK

****2024 Rank is where I ranked players ahead of the 2024 season.

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	POSITION	AGE	2024 RANK
25	Jackson Holliday	BAL	2B	21	NR
24	Junior Caminero	TB	3B	21	NR
23	Jarren Duran	BOS	CF/LF	28	134
22	Tarik Skubal	DET	SP	28	55
21	Wyatt Langford	TEX	LF/CF	23	NR

Don’t Let 2024 Fool You

Jackson Holliday did not have a good debut with the Orioles in 2024. In his 60 games, he slashed .189/.255/.311 with a 33% strikeout rate. But he also hit five homers, drove in 23 runs, and stole four bases, providing a glimpse of what he can do on the baseball field. He is a former top prospect for a reason – everywhere he has played he has been successful. He may have a few more growing pains to get through, but I wouldn’t pass on him if given a chance to land him on your roster.

A Surprise at Five

Putting Junior Caminero here will be considered a reach by some and crazy by others. But sometimes the eye test knows when a talented player is on the field and should be a top target in dynasty leagues. Caminero is one of those players. At the age of 20 last season, he appeared in 43 games for the Rays and slashed .248/.299/.724 with six homers and 18 RBI. Those aren’t great numbers, but he had only a 21.5% strikeout rate and a 46% Hard-Hit% compared to the MLB average of 39.3%.

He has a lot to learn, and he may go through some prolonged slumps in 2025, but his upside is too good to pass up.

Nice Power/Speed Combination

Jarren Duran is simply an outstanding athlete who can put up a very nice slash line, hit for power, rack up RBI, steal bases and score runs. The increase in home runs from eight to 21 from 2023 to 2024 is not a fluke and his speed is real as he stole 24 bases in 2023. Duran should reach 20 homers and 30 steals again, and who doesn’t want that kind of production on their team?

Surpassing Expectations

Sometimes I have to toot my own horn, because no one else will! This is what I wrote about Skubal in my rankings last season:

“In Tarik Skubal’s full three seasons, he has gotten better and better and is a now a pitcher you should want on your staff. In 2021 he had a 4.34 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. That dropped to 3.52/1.16 in 2022 and last season it was 2.80/0.90. His career K/9 rate is 10.0 and it was 11.4 last season. So why is Skubal not a hotter commodity? Because during these last three years, his innings pitched has been 149.1, 117.2, and 80.1 as he has not been able to stay healthy. Assuming he stays healthy, I expect him to come close to producing last year’s numbers for years to come.”

I actually undersold Skubal last year. He not only matched his numbers, he went out and dominated the American League en route to winning the Cy Young Award. He simply dominated last year and at only 28 years old, he is going to continue to dominate.

Ready To Match The Hype

Wyatt Langford isn’t going to deliver the same number of steals as some other outfielders, but that is not his game. What he is going to deliver over the next few years is the ability to hit for average and more power, leading to more RBI. Langford offered a glimpse of what he can do in September when he slashed .300/.386/.610 with eight homers, 20 RBI, and seven steals in 26 games for the Rangers. That is the player I expect to see throughout 2025 and beyond.

20-16

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	POSITION	AGE	2024 RANK
20	Paul Skenes	PIT	SP	22	NR
19	CJ Abrams	WAS	SS	23	50
18	Rafael Devers	BOS	3B	28	19
17	Mookie Betts	LAD	2B/SS/RF	32	8
16	Jose Ramirez	CLE	3B	32	26

Already A Force

Since Paul Skenes was selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Pirates in 2023, the clock was ticking for him to make his impact on a major league mound. The clock didn’t tick for long as less than a year after being drafted he was in the majors. And once he landed in Pittsburgh, there was no adjustment period needed. From the start, Skenes simply dominated opposing hitters. In 2024 he went 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA and 0.947 WHIP. In 133 innings of work, he struck out 170 hitters allowed only 32 walks. So that is an 11.5 K/9 rate and only a 2.2 BB/9 rate.

Skenes throws six pitches – SIX – at least five percent of the time, and all of them are effective. His “worst” pitch was his slider as opposing hitters had a .286 average with a .571 SLG. But he threw that only 5% of the time. His top three pitches – the four-seamer, sinker and curve – had batting averages against of .230, .184 and .250 with slugging percentages of .351, .234 and .375.

This is a long way of saying Skenes is very, very good

Aggressive On Abrams

Let me get the negatives about CJ Abrams: he is not great when it comes to batting average or OBP. In 2024 Abrams came in at .246/.314 in those two categories, but outside of those two areas, he is a top dual threat shortstop. In 2024 he hit 20 homers and stole 31 bases. Since debuting in 2022, Abrams has seen his Barrel% rate climb from 2.1% to 6.9% and his Average EV has increased from 86.5 mph to 88.2 mph.

Hitting Is All That Matters

Rafael Devers is just a consistent force at the plate. His career slash line is .279/.345/.511 with a 126 OPS+. From 2021-2023 he averaged 150 games per season with 33 homers, 100 RBI, and a .282/.354/.520 slash line and a 133 OPS+. This past season wasn’t Dever’s best, yet he still hit 28 homers and drove in 83 runs in 138 games. Even if he winds up at first at some point, he is still going to be a threat at the plate, and that is all that matters.

Only a Future Shortstop?

Mookie Betts is one of the best overall players in baseball as he excels at shortstop, second base, and right field (and likely anywhere else on the field if he played there). He has all of the tools to build a winning fantasy team – speed, hitting,g and power. No matter where he plays in the field doesn’t really matter. He is simply one of the best all-around hitters in the game.

I Don’t Care About His Age

Jose Ramirez is going to be 32 years old on Opening Day in 2025. And I say who cares, at least when it comes to Ramirez. All the switch-hitter does is produce year after year. This past season he slashed .279/.335/.537 with 39 homers and 118 RBI, the third time in four years he has topped 100 RBI. What separates Ramirez from the rest of the third basemen is the fact he also has speed. He stole 41 bases in 2024 and has not had fewer than 20 steals in any full season since 2017. Over the last four seasons, his OPS+ has been 142, 148, 128 and 143.

15-11

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	POSITION	AGE	2024 RANK
15	Corbin Carroll	ARI	CF/RF	24	9
14	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	TOR	1B	26	18
13	Fernando Tatis	SD	RF	26	13
12	Jackson Chourio	MIL	LF/RF	21	NR
11	Ronald Acuna	ATL	RF	27	1

Ready To Strike

Corbin Carroll, ranked fifth in the center field rankings, won the ROY in 2023 but slumped a bit at the plate last year with a .231/.322/.428 slash line with 22 homers, 74 RBI, and 35 steals. But Carroll found his groove in the second half of the season for the Diamondbacks, slashing .259/.351/.568 with 17 homers, 42 RB,I and 17 steals in 64 games. The numbers Carroll put up over those final 64 games is the real Carroll, not the one we saw in the first half of 2024.

They Are Only 26!

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a breakout season in 2021, when at the tender age of 22, he hit 48 homers, drove in 111 runs, and slashed .311/.401/.601 to finish second in the MVP voting. Those are some pretty lofty numbers to try to match every year, and Guerrero hasn’t. But all he has done since then is hit 88 home runs and drive in 294 runs while slashing .287/.360/.489. His “worst” season since 2021 was last year when he hit 26 homers and had 94 RBI while slashing .264/.345/.444.

Guerrero found his mojo at the plate this past season as he slashed .323/.396/.544. That is a top-10 finish across the board in the slash categories as the averaged ranked second in MLB while the OBP ranked third and the SLG ranked ninth. That is pretty solid for a player who hasn’t even reached his prime yet.

Fernando Tatis has averaged playing in 124 games and missed all of 2022 due to his PED suspension. The average season for Tatis since 2021 is a .271/.341/.514 slash line with 85 runs scored, 29 homers, 75 RBI and 22 steals. But we have all seen what Tatis can do when he plays a full season. He is one of the most exciting players to watch hit as he has all the tools.

Living Up to the Hype

Milwaukee fans were waiting for the day Jackson Chourio would join the Brewers after hitting 22 homers, driving in 91 runs, and stealing 44 bases between Double-A and Triple-A in 2023 as a 19-year-old.

Chourio broke camp with the Brewers this past season and after a sluggish start, he did not disappoint his fans. He finished the season with a .275/.327/.464 slash line with 21 homers, 79 RBI, and 22 steals. And as the season progressed, Chourio got better and better. He slashed .243/.294/.384 with nine homers, 35 RBI, and 10 steals in the first half (covering 85 games). Over his final 63 games, he slashed .310/.363/.552 with 12 home runs, 44 RB,I and 12 steals.

What’s up next for Chourio? Don’t be shocked to see him knocking on the door for a 30-100-30 season in 2025 and beyond.

Injury Concerns

Injuries have not been kind to Ronald Acuna. A knee injury basically wiped out his 2024 season as he played in only 49 games. But Acuna is only one season removed from his MVP year of 2023 in which he hit 41 homers, drove in 106 runs, and stole 73 bases while slashing .337/.416/.596. He likely won’t match those numbers again, but his career 162-game average .289/.379/.525 with 130 runs scored, 37 homers, 94 RBI, and 44 steals. Once he is fully healthy this season, he should be the offensive force he has been for years.

10-6

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	POSITION	AGE	2024 RANK
10	Julio Rodríguez	SEA	CF	24	2
9	Kyle Tucker	CHC	RF	28	4
8	Yordan Alvarez	HOU	LF	27	7
7	Jackson Merrill	SD	CF	21	NR
6	Aaron Judge	NYY	CF	32	5

Could Be Under Ranked

In 2024, Julio Rodriguez struggled to match the numbers he put up his first two seasons in Seattle, slashing .273/.325/.409 with 20 homers, 68 RBI, and 24 steals. But as soon as people started to doubt him, he turned his season around in the second half as he slashed .285/.337/.482. He had a monster September as he hit seven homers, drove in 22 runs, and stole six bases while slashing .328/.349/.546. There shouldn’t be any questions about Rodriguez and his talent.

New Home, Same Production

I’m not sure if people give Kyle Tucker the credit he deserves. In addition to being a Gold Glove winning outfielder, he is also one of the top hitters in baseball. Until this past season, when a hairline fracture in his right shin due to a foul ball limited him to 78 games, Tucker had played in 140 or more games from 2021-23. Since 2021, his average season is 131 games with a .280/.362/.527 slash line with 77 runs scored, 28 homers, 90 RBI and 20 steals. He drove in 107 runs in 2022 and led the American League with 112 in 2023 and was on pace to drive in more than 100 runs in 2024 if not for the injury.

Great Hitter And Slugger

When it comes to hitting, Yordan Alvarez is simply one of the best in the majors. His power is off the charts. As a rookie in 2019 he hit 27 homers in 87 games. Since 2021 his home runs totals have been 33, 37, 31, and 35 and his RBI totals have been 104, 97, 97, and 86. His career 162-game average is 42 homers and 120 RBI.

But Alvarez is more than just a home run hitter. He is also a top-notch hitter. His career batting average is .298 and twice he has hit over .300 in a season (2022, 2024). His career slash line is .298/.390/.583. Most sluggers struggle with strikeouts. Not Alvarez as his career strikeout rate is 20 percent and over the last three seasons, it has been 18.9%, 18.6,%, and 15% while his walk rates have been 13.9%, 13.9%, and 10.9%.

About the only thing Alvarez doesn’t do is steal bases, though he did add a career-high six this year. So he hits for power, hits for average, and drives in runs – making him the top-ranked left fielder.

Can The Encore Be Better?

Jackson Merrill is coming off an outstanding rookie season as he finished second in the NL ROY voting to Paul Skenes and was ninth overall in the MVP voting. All Merrill did was appear in 156 games for the Padres and hit 24 homers, drive in 90 runs, and steal 16 bases while slashing .292/.326/.500. He also had only a 17% strikeout rate. And his consistency was simply amazing. The only month he hit below .279 was July, when he “struggled” to the tune of .259/.278/.412 with one homer and 12 RBI.

All he did after that was hit .303 in August and .309 in September with a combined 11 homers and 36 RBI in 50 games. In the second half of the season, covering 61 games, he slashed .314/.349/.596 with 12 home runs and 44 RBI.

He’s Just Good, Really Good

Aaron Judge will be 33 for most of next season. You know what I think of that? I don’t care. Will he be a center fielder beyond 2025? Maybe not. But if you are in a league that starts only “outfielders,” then where Judge plays doesn’t matter. And if you are in a league that does break down the outfield into left, center, and right and Judge moves to right field or DH in the next two to five years, who cares? Worry about a replacement at that position then and enjoy having one of the most feared bats in baseball being on your team.

Since his age 30 season in 2022, all Judge has done the last three years is average 140 games and slash .304/.433/.674 with 52 homers, 117 RBI, and 10 steals. His 162-game average during that span is 60 homers and 135 RBI. His OPS the last three seasons has been 1.111, 1.019 and 1.159. There are no signs of Judge slowing down at the plate, so I am not afraid of the fact he is creeping closer to 35 than being closer to 30.

If you are truly trying to build a team of players under 25 with great upside, then go ahead and move Judge down to fifth in these rankings and go for one of the young bucks out there. But sometimes a player defies the aging process, and right now it looks like Judge is one of those players.

5-1

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	POSITION	AGE	2024 RANK
5	Juan Soto	NYM	RF	26	10
4	Elly De La Cruz	CIN	SS	23	29
3	Gunnar Henderson	BAL	SS	23	25
2	Bobby Witt	KC	SS	24	3
1	Shohei Ohtani	LAD	DH/SP	30	6

King of Queens

It is hard to believe that Juan Soto will still be only 26 on Opening Day in 2025. But that is a fact. And it is also a fact that Soto is one of the best hitters in baseball and one of the more durable players. Since 2021 the average season for Soto is 156 games, a .279/.423/.520 slash line, and 107 runs scored, 33 home runs, 94 RBI, and nine steals. His ability to control the strike zone and an at-bat is amazing to watch.

Playing in the Bronx in 2024, all Soto did was set career highs in runs scored (128) and home runs (41) and had his second-best RBI season (109). The only thing Soto doesn’t do well is steal bases. But that is no reason to ding a generational hitter.

Top Notch Talent

Elly De La Cruz doesn’t quite compare to Gunnar Henderson or Bobby Witt, or does he?

De La Cruz hit 25 homers, drove in 76 runs, and stole 67 bases last season – in only his second season in the majors. His 162-game average is 24 homers, 75 RBI, and 64 steals with a .250/.324/.471 slash line. His Average EV, Barrel%, and Bat Speed ranked in the 86th percentile or higher in 2024, his Walk% ranked in the 72nd percentile and his Sprint Speed ranked in the 100th percentile. He still strikes out too much, but if strikeouts keep you from wanting De La Cruz, then someone else in your league will be ecstatic to take him.

In 2023, Henderson’s first full season with the Orioles, he slashed .255/.325/.489 with 28 homers, 82 RBI, and 10 steals. All he did last season was improve across the board, slashing .281/.364/.529 with 37 homers, 92 RBI, and 21 steals.

His Statcast numbers are a sea of red. His xwOBA, xBA, xSLG, AEV, Hard Hit%, and Bat Speed all ranked in the 92nd percentile or higher while his Walk% and Chase% ranked in the 80th and 86th percentiles. And his Sprint Speed is nothing to sneeze at as it ranked in the 88th percentile. And unlike De La Cruz, Henderson’s strikeout numbers are in line with the league average, ranking in the 45th percentile in K%.

A Strong Second Place

I went back and forth on where to rank Witt, as he can easily be ranked first. The only reason he isn’t No. 1 is the fact he doesn’t pitch. Otherwise, what is there to not like about Witt?

Power? In his three years he has hit 20, 30, and 32 homers. Speed? His steals the last three seasons have been 30, 49, and 31. Hit Tool? He has that as well. His average, OBP, and SLG have improved every year and came in at .332/.389/.588 this past season.

He finished fourth in ROY voting in 2022, was seventh in MVP voting in 2023, and is a finalist for MVP this season. And he doesn’t even turn 25 until June.

Simply Too Good To Believe

What is there to say about Shoehei Ohtana that you don’t already know? I know Ohtani didn’t throw a single pitch in 2024, but he will be back in the starting rotation this year for the Dodgers and there is no way he isn’t the outstanding pitcher he was before getting injured. If you need a reminder about what he can do on the mound, remember a career ERA of 3.01 with a 1.082 WHIP to go with an 11.4 K/9 rate.

If he was just a hitter and never pitched, Ohtani would still be ranked no lower than second. He is that special at the plate. There was always the question of “what would Ohtani do if he only hit?” Well, he showed what he could do by slashing .310/.390/.646 with 134 runs scored, 54 home runs, 130 RBI, and 59 steals last year.

In 2021 he was the AL MVP. Then he slumped in 2022 when he finished second in the MVP voting. Then came another MVP season in 2023 and yet another this past season. His OPS+ the past four seasons have been 157, 144, 185, and 190 with 46, 34, 4,4, and 54 homers. His 162-game average is 106 runs scored, 42 homers, 107 RBI, 27 steals, and a .282/.371/.575 slash line.

There is nothing more that needs to be said about Ohtani.

Thank You

If you have read every entry or just a few, thank you. I know people disagree with where I ranked certain people, but that is fine as I hope this has been a useful tool in any capacity. And no matter what, we got to talk baseball.

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