Every week during the season, we are releasing a list of the best batters in fantasy baseball that’s designed to be similar to Nick’s list of Top 100 Starting Pitchers that comes out each Monday. Our objective is to give you the most current rankings of who we see as being the top 150 hitters league-wide for the rest of the season. They take into account expectations going into the season and production to this point, as well as recurring trends and streaks, as a way of analytically extrapolating who will bring you the most fantasy dividends throughout the year. Use these rankings to help understand what to expect from batters for all of 2017 and as a tool to gauge trade value in your fantasy leagues.
Note: These rankings have been made with H2H 5×5 12-teamers in mind and does not take into account the games played on 6/6.
Travis, DL’d again, for who knows how long. Whit or Lowrie a better option ROS?
Lowrie for days
Hi Andrew! I just picked up Calhoun and Piscotty both seem to be hitting ATM but cesar hernandez and aaron alther are FA. I have CarGo, Hamilton, Inciarte, AviGarcia in my OF and Kipnis / Kinsler as my 2B. Would you switch those out? I know the rankings are higher but its hard with all of them hitting this last 7 days or so.
Calhoun might be turning it around after a brutal stretch in May, digging the recent power, but depending on your league’s format, his batting average is still nagging at me. I’m not sure I trust Piscotty at this point and that’s notwithstanding whether or not he can stay healthy. Altherr is a interesting case, as getting Howie Kendrick back means that there’s going to be an odd man out every day between those two, Odubel Herrera and Michael Saunders, so is playing time at risk? Kipnis has been streaky, which always is tough to trust in H2H situations, and Kinsler just isn’t the same impact guy he once was, weirdly (meaning he used to be among the elite at the position and now he’s just solid). I like Hernandez a lot, I don’t think many people saw this barrage of production coming from him. You’re benefiting from Avisail Garcia tearing it up all season and Inciarte heating up within the last 3-4 weeks, while Hamilton is a virtual lock to win steals every week. I don’t think you can justify dropping CarGo just because he hasn’t been exceptional, not for what you’d be gaining from Calhoun. That may change, and I’m going to come back to this post after some observation on your behalf to see whether my initial gut reaction needs to change.
I don’t see Wilson Ramos being ranked despite your mentioning of his ranking at 133…
You’re right and that’s unfortunately been caused by a glitch in the Google doc/spreadsheet that we shortcode in to embed as a table in this post. He is supposed to be at 133, with everyone beneath that spot being one rank lower and Victor Martinez not appearing at all at the bottom. Thank you for reading and for your observant feedback!
Any thoughts on LeMahieu? His periferals don’t point to and obvious reason for his struggles, nor do they suggest a rebound, as far as I can tell.
Hey Andrew, what do you think..is Trevor Story really this bad?