AL Rookie of the Year Candidates - Fantasy Baseball Outlooks for Masataka Yoshida, Josh Jung, Hunter Brown, Anthony Volpe

Four strong candidates have surpassed the opening-day favorite, Gunnar Henderson, to win American League Rookie of the Year. Masataka Yoshida, Josh Jung, Hunter Brown, and Anthony Volpe. Let’s discuss the type of production we can expect to see for the remainder of the year and who will most likely hit the rookie wall.  We could […]

Hot MLB Prospects To Know For Fantasy Baseball - Week 7

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The regular season is in full gear. We're heading into Week 7 of the fantasy baseball season, and while there has already been plenty of action in the majors, we can't ignore some of the top prospect performances that took place in the minor leagues during Week 6. It's imperative to monitor […]

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Denzel Clarke, Austin Wells, Bobby Miller, Christian Encarnacion-Strand and more

The 2023 minor league baseball season has had multiple highly-regarded prospects open the season on the shelf. With a month of the season now passed, players have begun to filter back in to minor league lineups. The question is how have those players looked upon their return to the field? Are they back to previous […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 7)

It was an another fun week for prospect promotions and demotions. We finally received the long-awaited promotions of pitcher Brandon Pfaadt to Arizona and first baseman Matt Mervis to the Cubbies while also getting a brief glimpse at Gavin Stone with the Dodgers as well. But on the flip side, Vaughn Grissom was demoted once […]

Top 250 Dynasty Prospect Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (May Updates)

With the first month of the MLB season in the books, it's time to check-in on some dynasty prospects! Welcome RotoBallers to the latest edition of our dynasty fantasy baseball prospects rankings for the 2023 season. In this article below, you'll see our first in-season list of the top 250 MLB prospect rankings for fantasy […]

Hot MLB Prospects To Know For Fantasy Baseball - Denzel Clarke, Cade Povich, Gabriel Rincones Jr. and more

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The regular season is in full gear. We're heading into Week 6 of the fantasy baseball season, and while there has already been plenty of action in the majors, we can't ignore some of the top prospect performances that took place in the minor leagues during Week 5. It's imperative to monitor […]

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Elijah Green, Jack Leiter, Forrest Whitley, Jose Salas, Erick Peña and more

With one full month in the books, plenty of attention has been given to those who are having excellent starts to the year. What about those whose start to 2023 has been less than stellar? The stats and player six-packs this week will all be focused on guys who had a rough April. Can these […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 6)

It was an interesting week for prospect promotions and demotions. We received another exciting Cleveland prospect with Tanner Bibee while Michael Busch FINALLY made his long-awaited MLB debut, even if it took half the Dodgers team going on the paternity leave list for it to happen. But on the other side, St. Louis optioned Jordan […]

Fantasy Baseball Prospects Report - MLB Rookie Risers and Fallers for Week 6

Welcome to this year's iteration of RotoBaller’s Recently Promoted Prospects series for fantasy baseball! Here I discuss some recently promoted MLB prospects and rookies, making note of what I think their upside could be for fantasy baseball managers, and whether they are potential risers or fallers. We have already seen a huge number of high-impact […]

Hot MLB Prospect Hitters and Potential Call-Ups - Mining the Minors for Fantasy Baseball

Welcome to the second season of this series where I comb through the minor league leaderboards to see who is having a particularly impressive start to the season. I then try to break down whether the performance is for real and whether or not this player should be somebody that we should have on our […]

Is 2023 the Year of the Rookie Pitcher in Fantasy Baseball?

Over the past week, MLB prospects like Mason Miller, Logan Allen, and Levi Stoudt made their major league debut as starting pitchers. They joined eight other young arms who have debuted as starters in the major leagues this season. With less than a month of the season played, this accounts for one-sixth of the total […]

Re-Drafting the 2010 Fantasy Baseball First Year Player Draft - Mike Trout, Nolan Arenado, Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Ramirez and more

Welcome to a new series here at Rotoballer from Benjamin Chase. This series will explore previous First-Year Player Drafts and potentially redraft those FYPDs, with the information received since. Perhaps this will change your opinion of future FYPD drafts, or it might just have you leaving dynasty baseball due to the unpredictability – but either […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 5)

While we didn't have quite the prospect promotion frenzy this past week as we did the week before, the top 25 prospects to stash list still saw some movement, including the call-up of electric right-hander Mason Miller and the recall of Taj Bradley. We also appear to have a few more arms on the cusp […]

Hot MLB Prospects To Know For Fantasy Baseball - Jackson Holliday, Gavin Williams, Jonatan Clase, And More

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The regular season is in full gear. We're heading into Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season, and while there has already been plenty of action in the majors, we can't ignore some of the top prospect performances that took place in the minor leagues during Week 4. It's imperative to monitor […]

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Sterlin Thompson, Tanner Bibee, Kumar Rocker, Evan Carter and more

With the NFL draft happening this week, we are adding a bit of a draft pick theme to this week's six packs. There are three players that were top-10 overall selections, including one prior top-overall pick in this week's player profiles. We will take a look at season-long leaders in a couple of statistical categories […]

MLB Prospects Breakout Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Matthew Liberatore, Nolan Jones, Brandon Pfaadt, Michael Busch and more

With the passing weeks, we get more and better data to use. This year, we have more and better data for all of AAA (that is the International League and the Pacific Coast League). With the International League adding in the Statcast infrastructure, we can now know a whole lot more about the players down […]

Top Starting Pitcher Prospects - Impact Fantasy Baseball Rookies for 2023 (AL Central)

The American League Central is the focus of the third installment of a six-part series focused on pitching fantasy baseball prospects who are better positioned from a developmental standpoint to contribute meaningfully in 2023 MLB games. Fundamentals will be quantified using my Fielding and Ballpark-Independent Outcomes (FaBIO) pitcher evaluation model. Let us begin with individual […]

Hot MLB Prospects To Know For Fantasy Baseball - Tyler Freeman, Mason Miller, Andy Pages, Andrew Abbott and more

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The regular season is in full gear. We're heading into Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season, and while there has already been plenty of action in the majors, we can't ignore some of the top prospect performances that took place in the minor leagues during Week 3. It's imperative to monitor […]

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Peyton Burdick, Mason Miller, Jordyn Adams, Masyn Winn and more

Reviewing the publicly-available Statcast data for Triple-A and the Florida State League in Single-A, there are plenty of hitters and pitchers that stand out this week across minor league baseball. However, do those big numbers translate to a fantasy-viable player? After the first full week of lower-level minor league play and the second full week […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 4)

What a week. The promotions have been coming quickly so far here in 2023 and last week was no exception. We had six names from last week's top 25 get the call, including Brett Baty, who will make his 2023 season debut on Monday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. We even received a surprising […]

Top Starting Pitcher Prospects - Impact Fantasy Baseball Rookies for 2023 (NL Central)

The National League Central is the focus of the fourth installment of a six-part series focused on pitching fantasy baseball prospects who are better positioned from a developmental standpoint to contribute meaningfully in 2023 MLB games. Fundamentals will be quantified using my Fielding- and Ballpark-Independent Outcomes (FaBIO) pitcher evaluation model. Let us begin with individual […]

Eric Cross' Top 50 Dynasty Prospect Rankings for Fantasy Baseball

Baseball is back in full swing at all levels and rankings are in full swing as well. We've already seen the top two prospects in Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson graduate, leaving us with a brand new #1 and #2 overall prospect atop my rankings. These rankings are geared toward standard 5x5 leagues (AVG) and […]

MLB Prospects Breakout Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Hitters and Pitchers (Week 3)

The 2023 MLB season is off and running, and we have even fuller and better data to use this year! This has become a theme over the last decade as Major League Baseball is really giving us unprecedented access to the data of what is going on in the games. A huge development this season […]

Top Five MLB Prospects To Stash for Fantasy Baseball Redraft Leagues (Week 3)

This list will highlight the top five hitting and pitching prospect stashes for fantasy baseball redraft leagues. As more teams are incentivized to push their top prospects up the pecking order, the excitement of the game grows as these young players get on the field more often. These five fantasy baseball prospects are most worth […]

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Jo Adell, Matthew Liberatore, Brandon Pfaadt and more

Welcome to the 2023 Minor League Baseball season, and to a new weekly prospects series here at RotoBaller. Each week, I will review top performers from fantasy baseball prospects across the minor leagues from the previous week. I'll highlight a six-pack of hitters and pitchers -- discussing if a player’s performance is “real,” if more […]

Hot MLB Prospects To Know For Fantasy Baseball (Week 3)

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The regular season is officially here. We're heading into Week 3 of the fantasy baseball season, and while there has already been plenty of action in the majors, we can't ignore some of the top prospect performances that took place in Triple-A during Week 2. It's imperative to monitor the top fantasy […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 3)

The MLB season is already humming along into its second full week and all full-season minor league levels are now in full swing as well with Single-A and Double-A kicking off late last week. Although it's still very early, we've already seen prospects making an impact at the MLB level with several high-profile promotions already. […]

Top Starting Pitcher Prospects - Impact Fantasy Baseball Rookies for 2023 (NL East)

The National League East is the focus of the second installment of a six-part series focused on pitching fantasy baseball prospects who are better positioned from a developmental standpoint to contribute meaningfully in 2023 MLB games. Fundamentals will be quantified using my Fielding- and Ballpark-Independent Outcomes (FaBIO) pitcher evaluation model. Let us begin with individual […]

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 2)

Welcome to my first top 25 prospects to stash article here on RotoBaller. With the Major League Baseball season underway, it's time to shift our focus from drafts to lineup management, waiver wire/FAAB, and which MLB prospects to stash in fantasy baseball redraft leagues. The purpose of this article is to assist those trying to […]