Welcome again everybody! After weeks of counting down the highest dynasty gamers beginning at No. 400, that is the week when the ultimate 25 gamers are revealed.
It’s been an extended journey, however a enjoyable one. However the finish is right here so let’s have a look at the breakdown after which get to the rankings.
Not surprisingly, the most important group of gamers fall within the Age 20-24 vary with 12 this week. On the opposite finish, the 30-year-old and up group, I nonetheless have 4 gamers making my prime 24. However while you see who these 4 gamers are, you shouldn’t be shocked to see them right here.
And in case you have been questioning the place all the highest outfielders have been, effectively, you discovered them. Twelve outfielders make my remaining prime 25 gamers, adopted by 4 shortstops. This shouldn’t be too stunning as the highest athletes are taking part in at brief or within the outfield.
Age of Gamers
- Age 20-24 – 12
- Age 25-29 – 9
- Age 30+ – 4
Place Breakdown
- SP – 3
- 1B – 1
- 2B – 1
- SS – 4
- 3B – 3
- OF –12
- IF/OF – 1
Anyway, sufficient small speak. Let’s get to the rankings.
25-21
*Age as of April 1, 2025D
**Minimal 10 video games performed at every place listed. If lower than 10, then place most performed
***Till the Athletics are literally in Las Vegas, gamers on the workforce can be listed as OAK
****2024 Rank is the place I ranked gamers forward 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 Idiot You
Jackson Holliday didn’t have an excellent debut with the Orioles in 2024. In his 60 video games, he slashed .189/.255/.311 with a 33% strikeout price. However he additionally hit 5 homers, drove in 23 runs, and stole 4 bases, offering a glimpse of what he can do on the baseball discipline. He’s a former prime prospect for a purpose – all over the place he has performed he has been profitable. He might have a number of extra rising pains to get by means of, however I wouldn’t move on him if given an opportunity to land him in your roster.
A Shock at 5
Placing Junior Caminero right here can be thought of a attain by some and loopy by others. However generally the attention check is aware of when a proficient participant is on the sector and ought to be a prime goal in dynasty leagues. Caminero is a kind of gamers. On the age of 20 final season, he appeared in 43 video games for the Rays and slashed .248/.299/.724 with six homers and 18 RBI. These aren’t nice numbers, however he had solely a 21.5% strikeout price and a 46% Exhausting-Hit% in comparison with the MLB common of 39.3%.
He has rather a lot to study, and he might undergo some extended slumps in 2025, however his upside is simply too good to move up.
Good Energy/Velocity Mixture
Jarren Duran is solely an excellent athlete who can put up a really good slash line, hit for energy, rack up RBI, steal bases and rating runs. The rise in residence runs from eight to 21 from 2023 to 2024 isn’t a fluke and his velocity is actual as he stole 24 bases in 2023. Duran ought to attain 20 homers and 30 steals once more, and who doesn’t need that form of manufacturing on their workforce?
Surpassing Expectations
Typically I’ve to toot my very own horn, as a result of nobody else will! That is what I wrote about Skubal in my rankings final season:
“In Tarik Skubal’s full three seasons, he has gotten higher and higher and is a now a pitcher you need to need in your workers. In 2021 he had a 4.34 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. That dropped to three.52/1.16 in 2022 and final season it was 2.80/0.90. His profession Ok/9 price is 10.0 and it was 11.4 final season. So why is Skubal not a warmer commodity? As a result of throughout these final three years, his innings pitched has been 149.1, 117.2, and 80.1 as he has not been in a position to keep wholesome. Assuming he stays wholesome, I count on him to come back near producing final yr’s numbers for years to come back.”
I truly undersold Skubal final yr. He not solely matched his numbers, he went out and dominated the American League en path to successful the Cy Younger Award. He merely dominated final yr and at solely 28 years outdated, he’s going to proceed to dominate.
Prepared To Match The Hype
Wyatt Langford isn’t going to ship the identical variety of steals as another outfielders, however that’s not his recreation. What he’s going to ship over the following few years is the flexibility to hit for common and extra energy, resulting in extra RBI. Langford provided a glimpse of what he can do in September when he slashed .300/.386/.610 with eight homers, 20 RBI, and 7 steals in 26 video games for the Rangers. That’s the participant I count on to see all through 2025 and past.
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 Power
Since Paul Skenes was chosen because the No. 1 general decide by the Pirates in 2023, the clock was ticking for him to make his impression on a significant league mound. The clock didn’t tick for lengthy as lower than a yr after being drafted he was within the majors. And as soon as he landed in Pittsburgh, there was no adjustment interval wanted. From the beginning, Skenes merely dominated opposing hitters. In 2024 he went 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA and 0.947 WHIP. In 133 innings of labor, he struck out 170 hitters allowed solely 32 walks. So that’s an 11.5 Ok/9 price and solely a 2.2 BB/9 price.
Skenes throws six pitches – SIX – at the very least 5 p.c of the time, and all of them are efficient. His “worst” pitch was his slider as opposing hitters had a .286 common with a .571 SLG. However he threw that solely 5% of the time. His prime three pitches – the four-seamer, sinker and curve – had batting averages in opposition to of .230, .184 and .250 with slugging percentages of .351, .234 and .375.
This can be a great distance of claiming Skenes may be very, superb
Aggressive On Abrams
Let me get the negatives about CJ Abrams: he isn’t nice in the case of batting common or OBP. In 2024 Abrams got here in at .246/.314 in these two classes, however outdoors of these two areas, he’s a prime twin menace shortstop. In 2024 he hit 20 homers and stole 31 bases. Since debuting in 2022, Abrams has seen his Barrel% price climb from 2.1% to six.9% and his Common EV has elevated from 86.5 mph to 88.2 mph.
Hitting Is All That Issues
Rafael Devers is only a constant pressure on the plate. His profession slash line is .279/.345/.511 with a 126 OPS+. From 2021-2023 he averaged 150 video games per season with 33 homers, 100 RBI, and a .282/.354/.520 slash line and a 133 OPS+. This previous season wasn’t Dever’s finest, but he nonetheless hit 28 homers and drove in 83 runs in 138 video games. Even when he winds up at first in some unspecified time in the future, he’s nonetheless going to be a menace on the plate, and that’s all that issues.
Solely a Future Shortstop?
Mookie Betts is without doubt one of the finest general gamers in baseball as he excels at shortstop, second base, and proper discipline (and sure wherever else on the sector if he performed there). He has the entire instruments to construct a successful fantasy workforce – velocity, hitting,g and energy. Regardless of the place he performs within the discipline doesn’t actually matter. He’s merely among the finest all-around hitters within the recreation.
I Don’t Care About His Age
Jose Ramirez goes to be 32 years outdated on Opening Day in 2025. And I say who cares, at the very least in the case of Ramirez. All of the switch-hitter does is produce yr after yr. This previous season he slashed .279/.335/.537 with 39 homers and 118 RBI, the third time in 4 years he has topped 100 RBI. What separates Ramirez from the remainder of the third basemen is the actual fact he additionally has velocity. He stole 41 bases in 2024 and has not had fewer than 20 steals in any full season since 2017. Over the past 4 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 |
Prepared To Strike
Corbin Carroll, ranked fifth within the middle discipline rankings, gained the ROY in 2023 however slumped a bit on the plate final yr with a .231/.322/.428 slash line with 22 homers, 74 RBI, and 35 steals. However Carroll discovered his groove within the second half of the season for the Diamondbacks, slashing .259/.351/.568 with 17 homers, 42 RB,I and 17 steals in 64 video games. The numbers Carroll put up over these remaining 64 video games is the true Carroll, not the one we noticed within the first half of 2024.
They Are Solely 26!
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a breakout season in 2021, when on the tender age of twenty-two, he hit 48 homers, drove in 111 runs, and slashed .311/.401/.601 to complete second within the MVP voting. These are some fairly lofty numbers to attempt to match yearly, and Guerrero hasn’t. However all he has completed since then is hit 88 residence runs and drive in 294 runs whereas slashing .287/.360/.489. His “worst” season since 2021 was final yr when he hit 26 homers and had 94 RBI whereas slashing .264/.345/.444.
Guerrero discovered his mojo on the plate this previous season as he slashed .323/.396/.544. That may be a top-10 end throughout the board within the slash classes because the averaged ranked second in MLB whereas the OBP ranked third and the SLG ranked ninth. That’s fairly stable for a participant who hasn’t even reached his prime but.
Fernando Tatis has averaged taking part in in 124 video games and missed all of 2022 resulting from his PED suspension. The common season for Tatis since 2021 is a .271/.341/.514 slash line with 85 runs scored, 29 homers, 75 RBI and 22 steals. However we now have all seen what Tatis can do when he performs a full season. He is without doubt one of the most enjoyable gamers to look at hit as he has all of the instruments.
Dwelling As much as the Hype
Milwaukee followers had been ready for the day Jackson Chourio would be a part of 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 previous season and after a sluggish begin, he didn’t disappoint his followers. He completed the season with a .275/.327/.464 slash line with 21 homers, 79 RBI, and 22 steals. And because the season progressed, Chourio obtained higher and higher. He slashed .243/.294/.384 with 9 homers, 35 RBI, and 10 steals within the first half (protecting 85 video games). Over his remaining 63 video games, he slashed .310/.363/.552 with 12 residence runs, 44 RB,I and 12 steals.
What’s up subsequent for Chourio? Don’t be shocked to see him knocking on the door for a 30-100-30 season in 2025 and past.
Damage Issues
Accidents haven’t been sort to Ronald Acuna. A knee harm mainly worn out his 2024 season as he performed in solely 49 video games. However Acuna is just one season faraway from his MVP yr of 2023 through which he hit 41 homers, drove in 106 runs, and stole 73 bases whereas slashing .337/.416/.596. He doubtless gained’t match these numbers once more, however his profession 162-game common .289/.379/.525 with 130 runs scored, 37 homers, 94 RBI, and 44 steals. As soon as he’s absolutely wholesome this season, he ought to be the offensive pressure 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 Decide | NYY | CF | 32 | 5 |
Might Be Underneath 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. However as quickly as folks began to doubt him, he turned his season round within 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 whereas slashing .328/.349/.546. There shouldn’t be any questions on Rodriguez and his expertise.
New Residence, Identical Manufacturing
I’m undecided if folks give Kyle Tucker the credit score he deserves. Along with being a Gold Glove successful outfielder, he’s additionally one of many prime hitters in baseball. Till this previous season, when a hairline fracture in his proper shin resulting from a foul ball restricted him to 78 video games, Tucker had performed in 140 or extra video games from 2021-23. Since 2021, his common season is 131 video 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 tempo to drive in additional than 100 runs in 2024 if not for the harm.
Nice Hitter And Slugger
In terms of hitting, Yordan Alvarez is solely among the finest within the majors. His energy is off the charts. As a rookie in 2019 he hit 27 homers in 87 video games. Since 2021 his residence runs totals have been 33, 37, 31, and 35 and his RBI totals have been 104, 97, 97, and 86. His profession 162-game common is 42 homers and 120 RBI.
However Alvarez is greater than only a residence run hitter. He’s additionally a top-notch hitter. His profession batting common is .298 and twice he has hit over .300 in a season (2022, 2024). His profession slash line is .298/.390/.583. Most sluggers wrestle with strikeouts. Not Alvarez as his profession strikeout price is 20 p.c and over the past three seasons, it has been 18.9%, 18.6,%, and 15% whereas his stroll charges have been 13.9%, 13.9%, and 10.9%.
About the one factor Alvarez doesn’t do is steal bases, although he did add a career-high six this yr. So he hits for energy, hits for common, and drives in runs – making him the top-ranked left fielder.
Can The Encore Be Higher?
Jackson Merrill is coming off an excellent rookie season as he completed second within the NL ROY voting to Paul Skenes and was ninth general within the MVP voting. All Merrill did was seem in 156 video games for the Padres and hit 24 homers, drive in 90 runs, and steal 16 bases whereas slashing .292/.326/.500. He additionally had solely a 17% strikeout price. And his consistency was merely superb. The one month he hit under .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 mixed 11 homers and 36 RBI in 50 video games. Within the second half of the season, protecting 61 video games, he slashed .314/.349/.596 with 12 residence runs and 44 RBI.
He’s Simply Good, Actually Good
Aaron Decide can be 33 for many of subsequent season. You recognize what I consider that? I don’t care. Will he be a middle fielder past 2025? Possibly not. However if you’re in a league that begins solely “outfielders,” then the place Decide performs doesn’t matter. And if you’re in a league that does break down the outfield into left, middle, and proper and Decide strikes to proper discipline or DH within the subsequent two to 5 years, who cares? Fear a couple of alternative at that place then and luxuriate in having probably the most feared bats in baseball being in your workforce.
Since his age 30 season in 2022, all Decide has completed the final three years is common 140 video games and slash .304/.433/.674 with 52 homers, 117 RBI, and 10 steals. His 162-game common throughout that span is 60 homers and 135 RBI. His OPS the final three seasons has been 1.111, 1.019 and 1.159. There aren’t any indicators of Decide slowing down on the plate, so I’m not afraid of the actual fact he’s creeping nearer to 35 than being nearer to 30.
In case you are actually making an attempt to construct a workforce of gamers beneath 25 with nice upside, then go forward and transfer Decide all the way down to fifth in these rankings and go for one of many younger bucks on the market. However generally a participant defies the growing old course of, and proper now it appears to be like like Decide is a kind of gamers.
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’s exhausting to imagine that Juan Soto will nonetheless be solely 26 on Opening Day in 2025. However that may be a reality. And it is usually a undeniable fact that Soto is without doubt one of the finest hitters in baseball and one of many extra sturdy gamers. Since 2021 the typical season for Soto is 156 video games, a .279/.423/.520 slash line, and 107 runs scored, 33 residence runs, 94 RBI, and 9 steals. His potential to regulate the strike zone and an at-bat is superb to look at.
Enjoying within the Bronx in 2024, all Soto did was set profession highs in runs scored (128) and residential runs (41) and had his second-best RBI season (109). The one factor Soto doesn’t do effectively is steal bases. However that’s no purpose to ding a generational hitter.
Prime Notch Expertise
Elly De La Cruz doesn’t fairly examine to Gunnar Henderson or Bobby Witt, or does he?
De La Cruz hit 25 homers, drove in 76 runs, and stole 67 bases final season – in solely his second season within the majors. His 162-game common is 24 homers, 75 RBI, and 64 steals with a .250/.324/.471 slash line. His Common EV, Barrel%, and Bat Velocity ranked within the 86th percentile or greater in 2024, his Stroll% ranked within the 72nd percentile and his Dash Velocity ranked within the a hundredth percentile. He nonetheless strikes out an excessive amount of, but when strikeouts maintain you from wanting De La Cruz, then another person in your league can 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 final season was enhance throughout the board, slashing .281/.364/.529 with 37 homers, 92 RBI, and 21 steals.
His Statcast numbers are a sea of crimson. His xwOBA, xBA, xSLG, AEV, Exhausting Hit%, and Bat Velocity all ranked within the 92nd percentile or greater whereas his Stroll% and Chase% ranked within the eightieth and 86th percentiles. And his Dash Velocity is nothing to sneeze at because it ranked within the 88th percentile. And in contrast to De La Cruz, Henderson’s strikeout numbers are in keeping with the league common, rating within the forty fifth percentile in Ok%.
A Sturdy Second Place
I went forwards and backwards on the place to rank Witt, as he can simply be ranked first. The one purpose he isn’t No. 1 is the actual fact he doesn’t pitch. In any other case, what’s there to not like about Witt?
Energy? In his three years he has hit 20, 30, and 32 homers. Velocity? His steals the final three seasons have been 30, 49, and 31. Hit Device? He has that as effectively. His common, OBP, and SLG have improved yearly and got here in at .332/.389/.588 this previous season.
He completed 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 flip 25 till June.
Merely Too Good To Consider
What’s there to say about Shoehei Ohtana that you simply don’t already know? I do know Ohtani didn’t throw a single pitch in 2024, however he can be again within the beginning rotation this yr for the Dodgers and there’s no manner he isn’t the excellent pitcher he was earlier than getting injured. In the event you want a reminder about what he can do on the mound, bear in mind a profession ERA of three.01 with a 1.082 WHIP to go along with an 11.4 Ok/9 price.
If he was only a hitter and by no means pitched, Ohtani would nonetheless be ranked no decrease than second. He’s that particular on the plate. There was all the time the query of “what would Ohtani do if he solely hit?” Effectively, he confirmed what he might do by slashing .310/.390/.646 with 134 runs scored, 54 residence runs, 130 RBI, and 59 steals final yr.
In 2021 he was the AL MVP. Then he slumped in 2022 when he completed second within the MVP voting. Then got here one other MVP season in 2023 and yet one more this previous season. His OPS+ the previous 4 seasons have been 157, 144, 185, and 190 with 46, 34, 4,4, and 54 homers. His 162-game common is 106 runs scored, 42 homers, 107 RBI, 27 steals, and a .282/.371/.575 slash line.
There may be nothing extra that must be mentioned about Ohtani.
Thank You
You probably have learn each entry or just some, thanks. I do know folks disagree with the place I ranked sure folks, however that’s superb as I hope this has been a useful gizmo in any capability. And it doesn’t matter what, we obtained to speak baseball.
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