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Eric Cross

451 articles

Eric Cross is the Lead Fantasy Baseball Writer at RotoBaller, a multi-award-winning fantasy sports media company. He has been with the site for the past three years and has been producing fantasy baseball content for nearly a decade. Eric has been playing fantasy baseball for more than 25 years in both redraft and dynasty leagues. His analysis focuses heavily on dynasty formats, prospect evaluation, and long-term player development. Outside of RotoBaller, Eric is the co-host of The Toolshed Podcast and produces additional fantasy baseball content through his Patreon. He was also named the 2021 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year and has been nominated for Best Fantasy Podcast (The Toolshed) in both 2023 and 2025. When he’s not writing or podcasting, Eric enjoys spending time with his family and summers along the coast of Maine, where you can often find him at a Portland Sea Dogs game scouting the future stars of baseball. Follow Eric on X (formerly known as Twitter) @EricCrossMLB.

Articles

Sal Frelick - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Waiver Wire Pickups, Draft Sleepers

Eric Cross' Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

As we are now over two weeks into the Major League regular season, you should probably have a decent feel for your team and where your strengths and weaknesses are. It's never too early to attack those areas or positions of weakness via trade or the waiver wire. The players below are all under 40 […]


Jordan Lawlar - Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Draft Sleepers, MLB Rookies

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects to Stash

With Low-A, High-A, and Double-A starting this past Friday, we now have all four minor league levels in full swing as thousands of players aim to become fantasy-relevant players. Or just reaching the Majors in general. Same thing. We had several notable prospect promotions last week, including Chase Dollander and Zac Veen getting the call […]


Ben Rice - Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Waiver Wire Pickups, Draft Sleepers

Eric Cross' Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

We're barely a week into the 2025 season, but it's never too early to improve your fantasy rosters. I'm sure many of you reading this already have an injured player or two you're looking to replace or a late-round pick off to a slow start who could easily be replaced on your roster. The players […]


Elly De La Cruz - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

Top 200 Fantasy Baseball Dynasty Rankings

Welcome to my updated fantasy baseball dynasty rankings for April and the 2025 season. We're only a week into the regular season and chaos has already unfolded. You could even say that the season has torpedoed already. But it's great to have regular season baseball back in our lives and new data to comb over […]


Kristian Campbell - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Prospects

Eric Cross: Top 100 Dynasty Prospect Rankings

The 2025 Major League and Triple-A seasons are already in motion and the remainder of the full-season minor league levels will be on Friday as well. Finally, baseball is back in full swing with games that matter. These MLB prospect rankings are geared toward standard 5x5 fantasy baseball leagues (AVG) and consider many factors, including […]


Roman Anthony - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Prospects

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects to Stash

Welcome back to another season of discussing fantasy baseball prospects to stash in redraft leagues. Prospects can make or break your fantasy baseball season depending on how much you invest in them, so it's important to approach them the right away in your 2025 fantasy leagues. That's exactly what I'm going to try and assist […]


Spencer Torkelson - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Eric Cross' Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 1

We're only a few days into the 2025 regular season, but fantasy leagues are already chaotic. Injuries are popping up left and right, which is causing managers to rush to the waiver wire to add replacements or add a player off to a hot start. This week's waiver wire report is a good one for […]


Christian Encarnacion-Strand - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Prospects

Top Waiver Wire Pickups: After The Draft

Just like that, the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season is upon us. Some of you might still have a draft or two remaining this week, but many of you reading this have already finished some of your drafts and could be looking to make a move already. I'm here today with my top fantasy […]


Wyatt Langford - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

7 Fantasy Baseball Bold Predictions

In the wise words of Pepper Brooks in Dodgeball, "That's a bold fantasy baseball projection, Cotton; let's see if it pays off for 'em." Okay, Jason Bateman used the word strategy instead of "fantasy baseball projection" but you get the point. As the 2025 domestic opening day inches closer, it's time to have some fun […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 382

Welcome to episode 382 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Bobby Witt Jr. - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Top 200 Fantasy Baseball Dynasty Rankings

Can you smell the hot dogs? Can you hear the road of the crowd, the crack of the bat, and the smack of the catcher's mitt? Another major league season is upon us and we'll soon be setting lineups every day or week for the next six months. It's a glorious time of year. With […]


Dylan Crews - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Prospects, Draft Sleepers

Top 50 Fantasy Baseball Prospects for 2025

We're inching closer and closer to the start of the regular season, and we've had an exciting Spring Training so far. That's especially true on the prospect side, as some big-name fantasy baseball prospects are standing out while other names are emerging as early-season options. We even have two members of last year's draft class […]


Yoshinobu Yamamoto - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

Eric Cross' Pitcher Dynasty Rankings: Part 2

The starting pitcher position is so deep at the top with elite talent right now, doing just one top-10 pitcher rankings article isn't enough. So, after discussing my top-10 dynasty starting pitcher fantasy baseball rankings the other day in Part 1 of this series, we're going over pitchers #11-20 in my starting pitcher dynasty rankings […]


Paul Skenes - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Eric Cross' Pitcher Dynasty Rankings: Part 1

After going through every offensive position in my dynasty rankings series, we've now reached the mound for my top 10 dynasty starting pitcher fantasy baseball rankings. As always, the starting pitcher position is loaded and deep. We had plenty of names rise up rankings last year, and will be getting elite names like Shane McClanahan […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 379

Welcome to episode 379 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Yordan Alvarez - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Eric Cross' Outfield Dynasty Rankings: Part 2

The outfield position is so loaded that you're getting part two of my dynasty fantasy baseball rankings for this position. In this article below, you'll find my 11th through 20th ranked outfielders (from my overall top 500 dynasty rankings). As mentioned in my top 10 dynasty outfield rankings article -- or Part 1 of this outfield […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 378

Welcome to episode 378 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Ronald Acuna Jr. - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB Injury News, Betting Picks

Eric Cross' Outfield Dynasty Rankings: Part 1

After discussing the top 10 of each infield position in my positional dynasty fantasy baseball rankings series, we have finally reached the star-studded outfield. Saying this position is loaded doesn't do it justice. In fact, I'll need two separate articles to cover my top 20 dynasty outfielders (Part 2 here). In my overall dynasty rankings, […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 377

Welcome to episode 377 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Bobby Witt Jr. - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Eric Cross' Shortstop Dynasty Rankings

We've reached the last infield position in my positional dynasty fantasy baseball rankings series today with the always exciting shortstop position. This position is as loaded as ever. The top eight names below are all inside my top 40 overall in my dynasty rankings, and the other three are all inside my top 100. Yes, your […]


Walker Jenkins - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Prospects

MLB Dynasty Prospect Rankings

Do you smell that? That sweet smell in the air is the smell of baseball being back in our lives and spring training games underway. It's a glorious time of year, isn't it? That was a rhetorical question because, of course, the answer is a resounding yes. I'm always making updates to my fantasy baseball […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 376

Welcome to episode 376 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 375

Welcome to episode 375 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


Kumar Rocker - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Prospects, Draft Sleepers

2025 Prospect Call-Up ETAs

Every single season we see plenty of notable fantasy baseball prospects debut and make some level of impact for fantasy baseball that year. And over the last year or two, we've seen even more prospects get a shot earlier than expected given new rules incentivizing teams to bring up younger players. A few years ago, […]


Roki Sasaki - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Prospects, Pitchers, MLB DFS Picks

Top Fantasy Baseball Prospects for 2025

Those of you who have followed my work here at RotoBaller will remember that I have been posting a weekly article series on the top 25 fantasy baseball prospects to stash and monitor in redraft leagues for each of the last two seasons. It's always a fun article to put together throughout the season, and […]


Jordan Walker - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

2025 Bounceback Outfielders

All major league teams are back in camp, college baseball is fully underway, and fantasy baseball draft season is in full swing. It's a glorious time of year. One key aspect to having a good draft and succeeding in fantasy baseball is identifying which players could bounce back who disappointed the previous season for one […]


Jackson Jobe - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, MLB Prospects, Draft Sleepers

Top 10 Pitcher Prospects

We've reached the end of my positional fantasy baseball prospect rankings for 2025. After covering every offensive position so far, we close out this series with my Top-10 pitching prospect rankings for fantasy baseball entering 2025. In general, the starting pitcher position is as strong as I've seen it in several years, and it should […]


Jose Ramirez - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Third Base Dynasty Rankings

The hot corner was more lukewarm several years ago, but it's smoking hot entering 2025 with plenty of elite talent and depth as well. This might even be the most exciting infield position for fantasy right now. I'll be continuing my positional dynasty fantasy baseball rankings series today with the third base position. All 10 […]


Ketel Marte - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB injury News

Second Base Dynasty Rankings

Pitchers and catchers have reported, and we're inching closer to spring training games starting up. But in the dynasty fantasy baseball world, it's always baseball season! I'll be continuing my positional dynasty fantasy baseball rankings series today with the second base position, which has lost both depth and elite talent recently but fortunately has several […]


Toolshed Podcast Episode 374

Welcome to episode 374 of The Toolshed Podcast with Chris Clegg and Eric Cross brought to you by RotoBaller. The Toolshed is a fantasy baseball dynasty and prospects-focused podcast. Each week, hosts Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Chris Clegg (@ChrisCleggMiLB) dive into the world of dynasty leagues and cover all levels of prospects from the MLB […]


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