Before joining The Athletic, Gene McCaffrey was the long-time author of Wise Guy Baseball, an annual guide for high-stakes fantasy baseball players. This would then be a good year to target him, as last year he was overpriced. More Ks and more fly balls didnt help but the crushing weight was his BABIP, just .231 after 962 PAs of .295. $3, Nick Solak, CIN The change of venue wont hurt. A hamstring injury may well have been the cause of his big Sprint Speed dip from 88th% to 66th%. 10 bold predictions for a wacky 2022 MLB season by Eno Sarris (3/25). $1 if you must. Victor Robles, WAS The strikeouts keep blocking access to his talents. Shows flashes of power and 85th% speed. $1, Jos Azocar, SD Blazing speed that he has put to little use in the minors, with just a touch of pop. $14. 1 at the position. That would be good enough on most teams but the Cardinals may disagree and they are loaded anyway so loaded that a trade or even two is likely. Look what I found: Bubba Thompson at 31. $3. Kenta Maeda (RHP, MIN) Maeda was brilliant in 2020 with his slider and splitter getting a ton of chases + a fastball he could sneak into the zone for the strikes. $21. So I guess we can bank on 10 SBs. This is 1980s style, an extreme green light for 2023. The average draft position (ADP) included is from Draft Champions leagues from January 19 to February 19 at the NFBC, which you can find here.These leagues draft 50 players and that's all they get for the year no pickups or drops. Its unclear whether he makes the team worth a buck or two if he does, and will probably get another long look at some point. $5, Jose Siri, TB Elite speed, some pop, 33.4% Ks. PFA, Josh Palacios, PIT 27-year-old minor league grinder, with .289/.370/.407 to show for it, and 20+ SB speed. Yes, Dalton Del. LaMonte Wade, SF I still cant get over the fact that in four minor league seasons Wade walked more that he struck out. He didnt do a ton in his major league debut (76 wRC+) after clubbing 23 homers in Double- and Triple-A for Minnesota and Cincinnati. He was good enough as a rookie to trust he'll at least be of some use in 2023, and with his pedigree, there's a chance this discount pays off for years to come. Its not my team, but the White Sox played this all wrong, and while they were desperate for left-handed hitting too. Worry more that his strikeouts soared to 35.2%. What are the odds that the 2023 Oakland As set an all-time record for most players passing through? Real power and real speed give him a real floor as long as the Cubs play him, which they mostly did. Short-Term Fantasy Baseball Dynasty Prospect Impact of the 2022 MLB Draft Fantasy Baseball Prospects Report - MLB Rookie Risers and Fallers for Week 20 Fantasy Baseball Prospects. I'd rather not dedicate my first-round pick to a pitcher, but if you presume all the other projected first-rounders are kept (as I recommend), then you can't afford to fritter away a guy who could go on a multi-year run as the presumed No. Furthermore, he reached first base 52 times and attempted 14 stolen bases, and was successful 13 times. On the other hand, a power surge is likely enough given his history plus a small gain in K rate (still a little high at 24.2%). This is a body that has been through the wars. I agree with Jeff Zimmerman that Shane McClanahans 2021 script makes sense extended out to six months if he breaks camp, netting something in the 135-140 IP range with around 80-85 pitches per start. Plays at age 26 so all hope is not lost worth a shot as an OF5 in mixed leagues. To bid him as an average producer is decidedly optimistic. In the meantime, I think it wise to project far fewer PAs this year. $8. The pitchers may fool him back to Round Rock, but more likely Thompson will stick around to pinch run and chase fly balls in the late innings even if his bat disappoints. So thats where the battle stands, but 27 doubles in 91 games is old school validation to me. That's where this annual staple among my columns comes into play. Injury fears I guess, but Bryant shows no rate declines except in his strikeouts, which were an easy career best 14.9%. 1 overall pick. Ronald Acua Jr., ATL As predicted, he ran. The power that appeared to be developing age 26 so theres not a lot of time left glaringly did not translate. $12, Mitch Haniger, SF His injuries now seem more routine if no less serious. Caution advised. I wish I could say the same about his hitting, where smarts only get you so far. $39, two more in OBP leagues. First of all, hes one of the infinitesimally few capable of playing well in major league baseball. In recent years, I've tried to simplify the process by using a rudimentary rating system. This too could be wrong, but I dont see the sense of him hitting .230 with nine home runs when he could hit .290 with three home runs. David Peralta, LAD Respectable if injury-plagued career, but when the OPS against righties falls below .800, I figure hell have trouble sustaining a platoon gig. Eric Cross' Positional 2022 Fantasy Baseball Rankings Catcher Showing 1 to 40 of 40 entries The catcher position has notoriously been a headache for fantasy managers over the years. ROS Top 200 Fantasy Hockey Rankings for 2022-23 . $14, Masataka Yoshida, BOS The consensus seems to be in the .280 range with 15-20 HRs. . Mead is probably a better hitter and worse fielder than Steer, but he has a tougher path to immediate playing time and thus ranks a bit lower. See what happens right now hes a Reserve A, but could be worth a double-digit bid by draft day. He has an upside of .270s/20+ HRs and should at least deliver .250s with teens pop if he gets 400+ plate appearances. Remember that Ha-Seong Kim came from the KBO with similar production (22 HR/600 PA, .199 ISO) and has hit just 17 HR with a .138 ISO in 880 PA. That said, NPB is a more challenging league than the KBO, so Yoshida wont necessarily dip all the way to Kims level. Coming off his best season since he won NL MVP in 2015, the 29-year-old appears to have smoothed out his rough edges and become a full-fledged Fantasy force. Plus, the Cards are loaded with outfield talent. $15, Steven Kwan, CLE Old school leadoff hitter except he stole 19 bases instead of the 37 he would have in 1985. One more chance. Take a look at the game's inception and its "founding fathers," who never foresaw how their creation would take off and ultimately leave them behind. At his best, he's probably still the best player in Fantasy Baseball, and all the baggage, while frustrating, gives you a chance to secure him at some sort of discount. Has some power and some speed and just 10 Ks in 59 PAs in the majors. The Angels have a bit more depth this year, so they wont need to rush Silseth. Jul 6, 2022 We have several experts that maintain updated dynasty rankings to help you stay on top of dynasty player trade value throughout the year. 1 as one of the game's premier strikeout artists, but his poor control presents a level of downside that drops him a few spots on this list. The Dynasty 300 uses the following player valuation formula: The rationale behind these weights is to provide a long-term projection of player values, in order to help fantasy managers in dynasty/keeper leagues who are drafting fresh, weighing trades or making keeper decisions. Only catastrophe will keep him from playing, so bid him up. If they decide that Ozuna should get another chance, then hes going to approximate the player he has been, if he stays out of trouble. 2022 Keeper Value Rankings - Top 150 Overall for Fantasy Baseball In case you missed it, all preseason long I've been breaking down the top Keeper Values at each position. A .561 OPS vs. righties is especially alarming. For what its worth, Ward has more speed than he has shown. Maybe Christian Yelich, who won it the year before Bellinger, unless you count Josh Hamilton. He probably could have used more time in Triple-A. For sure, he must improve his 31.8% Ks. SkidMarkz's Batters roster for 2022-10-05. Hes vulnerable up in the zone, but who isnt. Fantasy baseball rankings for 2023 points leagues, Fantasy baseball rankings, projections, strategy and cheat sheets, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. If he keeps raking in Triple-A, he can force his way up and they will find a spot for him. The designationsReserve AandReserve Bare players I consider worth a shot, more or less, but not a dollar, usually because they wont be starting in the majors. Garrett Mitchell, MIL A True Burner, he appears to be the center fielder, although a platoon is possible. But then, of course, he didnt do much. That means all the relevant prospects get selected, which helps give us an idea of how the market views them. Yazzie could even bounce back to 2019-2020 levels, but that is doubtful. Should stick around due to his defense and speed, but even that is not really bettable. There could be a problem here besides the 24.6% strikeouts, which are not terrible: Eaton was a 45.6% fly-ball hitter with a lowly 27.5% hard-hit rate. If every other surefire first-rounder needs to be kept, then so does Betts, who's not as old as you think he is, by the way. I've then converted that ADP into a round number (presuming a 12-team league) and determined how eager I am to keep that player relative to that round. Harris seems to have a problem recognizing balls and strikes, swinging at too many balls and not enough strikes. Regression concerns have seen Dylan Cease's ranking take a hit in February. Reserve B, Jake Meyers, HOU Nice 38 games at Triple-A coming off shoulder surgery. The Twins sat him regularly in an attempt to keep him healthy and that didnt work either. Power looks steady at B+. Bats left, and opportunities abound. A bigger key is strikeouts, and that remains to be seen. I guess well see, but Outman should be better than Chris Taylor and Trayce Thompson. It doesnt help that the whole world watched the Phillies get him out. I also consider how old the player is and how confident I am in his profile, though these are of lesser concern in a keeper league, which has tons of roster turnover every year, than a dynasty league, which has very little. PFA, Tucupita Marcano, PIT Good contact in the minors, 11% Ks all through, but little power and when he tried to steal bases they threw him out 40% of the time. Age 23, excellent speed, a 315-game minor league slash of .294/.373/.419, with 91 SBs in those 315 games. I don't know how you don't keep him unless you're just stacked with young studs. He wasnt quite as good during his big league run, with just an 11% K-BB rate across 24 innings (2.28 ERA, 1.39 WHIP), though the small sample was weighed down quite a bit by his five-walk start on September 13, which accounted for nearly half of the 12 walks he allowed. He now has a 28% K rate in 214 Triple-A innings and while weve only seen a 23% mark in his 49 big league innings, it has come with a nice 13% SwStr rate. 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