Giving you a big picture, generalization here: The top 80 outfielders are the end of the outfielders you’re looking at in your 12-team mixed leagues, and tomorrow will be for deeper leagues, so we’re at the beginning of the end of the hitter rankings in the 2026 fantasy baseball rankings. But as you know, a generalization makes a general out of I and Zation. Hmm, sounded better in my head. Here’s Steamer’s 2026 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Hitters and 2026 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Pitchers. Subscriptions are up and running — thanks, Rudy! — and you can already get Rudy’s Draft War Room. Anyway, here’s the top 80 outfielders for 2026 fantasy baseball:
NOTE: All my 2026 fantasy baseball rankings are currently available on Patreon for the price of a Starbucks coffee, if you get one of those extra grande frappuccino jobbers. Don’t wait for the rankings to come out over the next month, and get them all now.
NOTE II: Free agents are marked as such and not yet projected. They are ranked for where they’re currently worth drafting.
RETURN TO THE TOP 60 OUTFIELDERS FOR 2026 FANTASY BASEBALL
61. Mickey Moniak – This tier started in the top 60 outfielders for 2026 fantasy baseball. I called this tier, “Absence makes the heart grow flounder.” This tier ends at Steer.
As for Mickey Moniak, this guy has a Grade A name and a Grade Meh profile. Trying to not get sucked in by the Rockies’ hitters as I do every year, and I admittedly might be overcorrecting, but Moniak will (should?) platoon and is a 20/7/.260 hitter, so subtract 100 at-bats, due to the platoon, and his upside feels incredibly limited. Last year (24/9/.270) looks like a peak or a peek at a peak. Or if you’re piqued, go crazy. 2026 Projections: 68/20/59/.263/7 in 441 ABs
62. Spencer Steer – Went over him in the 1st basemen rankings.
63. Dominic Canzone – This is a new tier. This tier goes from here until Beavers. I call this tier, “Wind chimes.” If you hear wind chimes, it’s beautiful. Your ears are about to gush with Marcus Semien that shizz is so beautiful. It’s the most gorgeous sound. If you sit on the Country Time porch and hear wind chimes while sipping Country Time Lemonade, then it’s the best time of your life. If you do that a 2nd day in a row, you’re vibing, things are good! If you do it a third day in a row, you’re starting to wonder if those chimes play any other tune. By the 4th day, you’re Jack Nicholson in The Shining. This tier refers to how good these guys might be, but could get old real fast. It’s not that I don’t like them, there’s even a sleeper in here, but it’s like ice cream for supper. It’s fun and yum! But you might need some protein in your diet besides heavy cream. On a bigger picture note, this is the shallowest I can remember outfielders. Usually I get to the top 100 outfielders post before outfielders are completely dried up, but these are your 5th outfielder, flyer types. You grab one, hope it works, and drop if it doesn’t.
As for Canzone, already gave you a Dominic Canzone sleeper. It was written while saying, “Well, actually.” 2026 Projections: 56/20/61/.267/8 in 406 ABs
64. Chase DeLauter – Already gave you my Chase DeLauter fantasy. It was written between shifts at the bowling alley. 2026 Projections: 43/20/51/.271/1 in 403 ABs
65. Wilyer Abreu – Was pretty split on whether I wanted Wilyer or if I wanted to rank him even lower, and, I have to be honest, I’m still kinda split on it. He can’t hit lefties, and doesn’t face them, so you have to platoon him and, even with decent contact, he doesn’t hit for a very good average. 24.2 K% for a .247 average is a pretty strong indication of how wonky his contact is. In the end, I’m fine with Wilyer because 21/7/.250 is basically Heliot Ramos in less at-bats, which is either a positive or a negative, depending on the depth of the league, i.e., if you can platoon Wilyer, he becomes more valuable. If you have to play him in a weekly league, he’s less valuable. 2026 Projections: 56/21/65/.252/7 in 412 ABs
66. Jordan Beck – Can you hear the name Beck and not start singing, “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” You can? Wow, either you’re a better person than me or not Gen X. One time I was at Coachella with Rudy and we were listening to Beck for about 45 minutes. It was loud and we were very drunk. Turned out we were actually drunker than we thought, because we were not listening to Beck at all. We were in the wrong tent. Later, we were like, “Guess that was why we didn’t recognize any of his songs.” Any hoo! Beck went 16/19/.258 last year and I have to admit I didn’t remember him being that good. Guess I was in the Brenton Doyle tent. The big concern for me is Beck’s 29.6 K% and he’s struggled with contact for his whole professional career. I’m the low man on Beck, according to early ADP, and I’m fine missing out on him. In general, I’m kinda done chasing the Rockies’ hitters. They are a bad team, where hitters excel in spite of their coaches and development, until we see otherwise. 2026 Projections: 66/18/61/.241/15 in 527 ABs
67. Colton Cowser – He had a 35.6 K% last year. Those wind chimes sound damn good in the store and I hung them above my desk and now I’ve managed to make myself loco in the cabeza. He only had a 30.7 K% the year before–Okay, he “only” in scare quotes, but that can produce a .240 average. The bad news is he hit .188 vs. lefties last year. Wait, that might be the good news since he hit .196 vs. everyone. He had a .196 average last year? My God, nothing went right for the O’s last year. Okay, this tier is obviously a bunch of shot-in-the-dark guys. I am not making any reassurances on Cowser, but if he can hit .230+ that works because he has 25-homer power and 15+ steal speed. 2026 Projections: 52/22/61/.227/15 in 434 ABs
68. Josh Lowe – Here’s what I said this offseason, “Traded to the Angels. Here’s what the Angels saw: “Everyone can hit homers in Big Stein” is swished around in Josh Lowe’s mouth than spat out and he shakes his head, “I don’t like that one.” He hit 11 HRs last year, had a 9+ Launch Angle and hit 46.2% ground balls, which seemed like a high LA for that many ground balls, but it was on par with Gunnar, Tatis and Brenton Doyle, to name a few (there were a lot, it wasn’t that obscure of a combination). Lowe’s (carries great patio furniture!) also had better fly ball rates in past years and likely is closer to a 20/25 player, but he has some serious warts. Hit .220 with a 25.1 K% and it wasn’t just bad luck. Also, he can’t seem to stay on the field, and never faces lefties. He could absolutely bounce back, but it’s a lottery ticket, which is basically the whole Angels team, and no one could actually tell you what you’re gonna get from Lowe.” And that’s me quoting me! 2026 Projections: 57/14/52/.241/19 in 408 ABs
69. Matt Wallner – He’s a lefty that didn’t have bad numbers vs. lefties last year (did in previous years), and have you heard? My birthday wish from 2021, “Fire Rocco Baldelli,” has finally come true! (Suits me to not wish to win the lottery every single year. I skip one stupid year!) So, Wallner might see 500 ABs finally. I could’ve wrote a sleeper post for him if I thought he’d absolutely be locked in for 500 ABs. Talking 30+ homers and his K% keeps getting better, while hitting the ball hard. From the window to the Wallner, ’til the player drops down in drafts and I grab ’em! 2026 Projections: 64/26/71/.239/5 in 423 ABs
70. Isaac Collins – Here’s what I said this offseason, “Traded to the Royals for Angel Zerpa. Fun fact! Zerpa is Italian for slurp, so him going to the Brewers makes sense, if Milwaukee was in Italy. Collins in KC is exciting! No, seriously! I like this trade for his value. Last year, he went 9/16/.263 in 372 ABs with a 12.9 BB% and 21.1 K%. Contact wasn’t exactly all hard, but plentiful. KC isn’t going to help his power, but Royals should play the switch-hitter nearly every day. Not about to write a full-on sleeper for him, but for deeper leagues, I think you could do a lot worse, and could have upside.” And that’s me quoting me! 2026 Projections: 55/12/57/.259/17 in 434 ABs
71. Jose Caballero – Went over him in the 2nd basemen rankings.
72. Dylan Beavers – Already gave you my Dylan Beavers fantasy. It was written while in a dream state. Small programming note: There were 73 outfielders in the first 275 players on the Player Rater, i.e., this is the end of the 12-team outfielders. That does not mean guys after this won’t be drafted, and of course there’s deeper leagues. I’m just saying you’re at roughly 275 overall in rankings. This might be a programming note for me, more than you. 2026 Projections: 52/17/63/.256/15 in 411 ABs
73. TJ Friedl – This is a new tier. This tier goes from here until O’Hearn. I call this tier, “A pair of tires.” It’s not going to be the first thing you notice on a car, but, without them, you might be lost. (See what I did there? Of course, you did, you’re whipsmart. Okay, see what I did there the 2nd time? “Whipsmart.” Damn, all right, get me out of this parenthesis. No, seriously, someone let me out. Hello! Oh, I see, it’s up to me.) Are these guys dependable? No. They’re just deep league team players where you need a guy that is going to give you stats without any flash. These guys could actually be more valuable than the tier above of flyers, but they’re not very sexy-slash-exciting, i.e., you draft Friedl, he’s solid, but you want to drop him in your shallower mixed league within a week of Opening Day.
As for Friedl, what can be said for TJ Friedl that hasn’t been said before? [seeing nothing has been written before, ignoring that] Ahh, yes, the book is written on him! [hoping no one realizes I’m stalling because there’s nothing interesting to say about him] I’m absolutely not stalling! I have plenty to say on Friedl. He went 14/12/.261 last year but since he accrued 579 ABs, he had top 45 outfielder value. See, interesting stuff! 2026 Projections: 84/15/56/.253/14 in 559 ABs
74. Gavin Sheets – Went over him in the 1st basemen rankings.
75. Cedric Mullins – Here’s what I said this offseason, “Signed with the Rays. Too bad they’re not still in Big Stein. We might’ve been treated to an encore of Cedric the HRtainer’s best year of 30/30. In retrospect, that is clearly a one hit wonder now. Call him Chamullinsaire because we be RIDIN! They see me, Mullins…They hatins’! Tryin’ to catch me ridin’ dirty! Tryna–Okay, that’s enough. Mullins is a solid 15-18/25-ish steal guy who can’t hit his weight (if he eats a bunch of Ding Dongs).” And that’s me quoting me! 2026 Projections: 62/16/51/.228/24 in 412 ABs
76. Giancarlo Stanton – [puts Giancarlo’s jersey on a scarecrow, wraps scarecrow arms around me as Celine Dion’s Titanic theme plays] Giancarlo scarecrow, “In your rankings, Grey, you didn’t put me in a ‘boring’ tier did you?” Clearly lying, “Uh, no.” 2026 Projections: 47/27/61/.238 in 361 ABs
77. Jung Hoo Lee – There is no better example of boring yet boringly reliable as this guy. Jung Hoo boy, this guy is super boring. Last year, he went 73/8/55/.266/10 in 560 ABs. Was that better or worse than this outfielder ranking? Sadly, much better. This tier’s theme: Boring has value, but boring is so hard to roster outside of deep leagues. If you’re in a deep league, I could see going this tier before the last one. This is why we have rankings for different sized leagues. 2026 Projections: 77/7/49/.277/12 in 554 ABs
78. Ryan O’Hearn – Went over him in the 1st basemen rankings.
79. Parker Meadows – This is a new tier. This tier goes from here until the top 100 outfielders for 2026 fantasy baseball. I call this tier, “You don’t know me.” By the tier name, I mean if you really thought I was gonna end the top 80 outfielders on a down note, you didn’t know me. You know I had to follow that boring tier with some sexy AF names to head into the final hitter rankings post, even if these guys are incredibly risky, and might be useless.
As for Meadows, Riley Greene hitting third or cleanup, then. Dot dot dot. Is anyone else locked into their spot? Carpenter and Gleyber will be somewhere in the top five, I guess. Torkelson? Maybe five or six. Then, I don’t know, Dingler? Meadows? Cool Colt Keith? I’m just trying to figure out where Meadows is hitting. It could be ninth (boo!) or leadoff (yay!). Those two have material differences on his fantasy value. Also big difference in being a 20/20 player like I thought he was and a 4/4 player as he was last year. Don’t worry, he also hit .215! So, last year was lost, but he was a sleeper for me going into last year (well done, Grey!). He was injured for most of last year, so let’s ignore that (can we do that?) and get back to those good vibes of two years ago. 2026 Projections: 52/14/56/.241/14 in 409 ABs
80. Jesus Sanchez – Ya know what’s fun? A 20/20/.250 guy with upside. Ya know what’s boring? A 15/15/.250 guy. They seem so close, but those five homers and steals, well, as the sign above the brothel says, therein lies the rub. 2026 Projections: 64/16/59/.247/14 in 438 ABs
