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.
- Note: Nobody will be cutting actual 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.
- 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 | RHP Ian Anderson | ATL |
| 3 | OF Jarred Kelenic | SEA |
| 4 | OF Julio Rodriguez | SEA |
| 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 | LHP Garrett Crochet | CHW |
| 25 | RHP Luis Patiño | SD |
| 26 | RHP Michael Kopech | CHW |
| 27 | RHP Luis Garcia | HOU |
| 28 | RHP Dean Kremer | BAL |
| 29 | 2B Vidal Brujan | TB |
| 30 | RHP Clarke Schmidt | NYY |
| 31 | RHP Dane Dunning | CHW |
| 32 | LHP Brailyn Marquez | CHC |
| 33 | RHP Spencer Howard | PHI |
| 34 | C Adley Rutschman | BAL |
| 35 | 1B Lewin Diaz | MIA |
| 36 | OF Pavin Smith | ARI |
| 37 | RHP Logan Gilbert | SEA |
| 38 | RHP Brent Honeywell | TB |
| 39 | RHP Forrest Whitley | HOU |
| 40 | RHP George Kirby | SEA |
| 41 | OF Cristian Pache | ATL |
| 42 | LHP Trevor Rogers | MIA |
| 43 | OF Drew Waters | ATL |
| 44 | RHP Max Meyer | MIA |
| 45 | LHP Reid Detmers | LAA |
| 46 | SS Jose Garcia | CIN |
| 47 | RHP Deivi Garcia | NYY |
| 48 | RHP Tanner Houck | BOS |
| 49 | OF Jared Oliva | PIT |
| 50 | OF Trevor Larnach | MIN |
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