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Early 2022 Fantasy Baseball First Base Rankings - 5x5 Roto Mixed Leagues

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RotoBaller's early 2022 fantasy baseball first base rankings for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. Our staff's draft rankings and tiers for MLB first basemen (1B).

Welcome back RotoBallers! Below you will find our early 2022 fantasy baseball first base rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. This is an exciting time of year for baseball fans everywhere, and our team is here to help you prep for the upcoming MLB season. RotoBaller's MLB writing staff has already hit the ground running with our 2022 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit, various fantasy baseball rankings for different league types and scoring formats, and draft analysis articles digging into this year's fantasy baseball sleepers and breakouts. If you don't already have RotoBaller's free fantasy baseball mobile app, make sure you download it and turn on the free push notification alerts to stay on top of the latest MLB news and fantasy analysis.

Four of our lead fantasy baseball analysts - Nick Mariano, Pierre Camus, Nicklaus Gaut and JB Branson - have analyzed all of the MLB offseason moves regarding free agents, trades and more. Their consensus fantasy baseball first base rankings for 2022 can be found below, and will be updated regularly up until opening day.

Be sure to also bookmark our main 2022 fantasy baseball rankings dashboard. It will soon be loaded up with tons of other great rankings including H2H point leagues, dynasty prospect rankings, impact rookie rankings for 2022 and dynasty/keeper rankings as well.

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Fantasy Baseball First Base Rankings

Staff ranks are as of January 27th, 2022. They are for 5x5 category mixed roto leagues, and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard.

Ranking Tier Player Position
1 1 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 1B
2 1 Freddie Freeman 1B
3 2 Matt Olson 1B
4 2 Austin Riley 1B/3B
5 2 Paul Goldschmidt 1B
6 3 Pete Alonso 1B
7 3 Jose Abreu 1B
8 3 Kris Bryant 1B/3B/OF
9 3 Ryan Mountcastle 1B/OF
10 3 Jared Walsh 1B/OF
11 3 DJ LeMahieu 1B/2B/3B
12 4 Max Muncy 1B/2B
13 4 C.J. Cron 1B
14 4 Rhys Hoskins 1B
15 4 Josh Bell 1B/OF
16 4 Joey Votto 1B
17 4 Kyle Schwarber 1B/OF
18 5 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 1B/OF
19 5 Yasmani Grandal C/1B
20 5 Jake Cronenworth 1B/2B/SS
20 5 Trey Mancini 1B
21 5 Anthony Rizzo 1B
22 6 Ty France 1B/2B/3B
23 6 Frank Schwindel 1B/OF
24 6 Yuli Gurriel 1B
25 6 Brandon Belt 1B
26 6 Nathaniel Lowe 1B
27 6 Luke Voit 1B
28 7 Andrew Vaughn 1B/OF
29 7 Jonathan Schoop 1B/2B
31 7 Jesus Aguilar 1B
32 7 Tyler Stephenson C/1B
33 7 Eduardo Escobar 1B/2B/3B
34 7 Bobby Dalbec 1B
35 7 Miguel Sano 1B
36 8 Eric Hosmer 1B
37 8 Patrick Wisdom 1B/3B/OF
38 8 Bobby Bradley 1B
39 8 Pavin Smith 1B/OF
40 8 Spencer Torkelson 1B
41 8 Dominic Smith 1B/OF
42 8 Rowdy Tellez 1B
43 8 Christian Walker 1B
44 8 Mike Moustakas 1B/3B
45 8 Connor Joe 1B/OF
46 8 Hunter Dozier 1B/3B/OF
47 9 Carlos Santana 1B
48 9 Gavin Sheets 1B/OF
49 9 Darin Ruf 1B/OF
50 9 Keston Hiura 1B
51 9 Garrett Cooper 1B/OF
52 9 Michael Chavis 1B/2B
53 9 Evan White 1B
54 9 Yoshi Tsutsugo 1B/OF
55 9 Wilmer Flores 1B/2B/3B
56 9 Andy Ibanez 1B/2B/3B
57 10 Yandy Diaz 1B/3B
58 10 Miguel Cabrera 1B
59 10 Ryan Zimmerman 1B
60 10 Edwin Rios 1B/3B
61 10 Mitch Moreland 1B
62 10 Ji-Man Choi 1B
63 10 Matt Beaty 1B/OF
64 10 Brad Miller 1B/2B/OF
65 10 Ryan O'Hearn 1B/OF
66 10 Triston Casas 1B
67 10 Juan Yepez 1B
68 10 Lewin Diaz 1B
69 10 Seth Brown 1B
70 10 Joshua Fuentes 1B/3B
71 10 Asdrubal Cabrera 1B/3B
72 10 Nick Pratto 1B
73 10 Jurickson Profar 1B/2B/OF
74 10 Aledmys Diaz 1B/2B/3B/SS/OF
75 10 Daniel Vogelbach 1B
76 10 Josh Naylor 1B/OF
77 10 Colin Moran 1B
78 10 Marwin Gonzalez 1B/2B/3B/SS/OF
79 10 Jake Bauers 1B/OF
80 10 Mike Brosseau 1B/2B/3B
81 10 Yu Chang 1B/3B/SS
82 10 Jace Peterson 1B/2B/3B/OF
83 10 Matt Vierling 1B/OF
84 10 Phil Gosselin 1B/3B/OF

 



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