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Outfield (Part 1): Updated March Rankings and Tiers

We rolled out our final update on 2017 rankings this past weekend. While there haven’t been seismic shifts, some players have naturally seen their stocks rise or fall since our initial valuations were made in December. We’re gathered here today to look at part one of our outfield rankings, tiers, and auction values, which have certainly seen some movement. Part one of this OF look will check in with three risers and three fallers within the top five tiers.

As before, this round of rankings features picks from myself, Kyle BishopBill DubielBrad JohnsonHarris Yudin and Jeff Kahntroff.

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2017 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Outfielders - Part One (March Updates)

Ranking Tier Player Position Brad Kyle Nick Bill Harris Jeff Auction $
1 1 Mike Trout OF 1 1 1 1 1 1 48
2 1 Mookie Betts OF 3 3 2 6 2 2 46
3 1 Kris Bryant 3B/OF 2 2 3 5 3 4 46
4 2 Bryce Harper OF 19 13 9 21 9 8 36
5 2 Charlie Blackmon OF 11 17 12 13 16 12 35
6 2 Trea Turner 2B/OF 13 24 15 22 17 7 34
7 2 Nelson Cruz OF 24 28 18 26 28 18 31
8 2 Starling Marte OF 28 20 24 19 31 24 31
9 2 Ryan Braun OF 33 31 21 16 30 28 30
10 2 J.D. Martinez OF 38 18 29 30 36 30 28
11 2 Giancarlo Stanton OF 25 36 41 29 29 39 26
12 3 A.J. Pollock OF 29 39 20 35 39 42 25
13 3 George Springer OF 35 34 36 44 21 35 25
14 3 Christian Yelich OF 40 45 50 47 40 58 25
15 3 Carlos Gonzalez OF 63 40 48 17 49 67 25
16 3 Kyle Schwarber C/OF 61 44 65 45 72 48 21
17 3 Justin Upton OF 67 67 42 52 50 57 21
18 3 Yoenis Cespedes OF 37 42 35 143 35 49 21
19 3 Gregory Polanco OF 55 59 54 50 88 56 20
20 3 Khris Davis OF 90 77 55 62 98 80 19
21 3 Andrew McCutchen OF 94 72 73 64 61 113 17
22 4 Jose Bautista OF 49 71 90 170 80 50 17
23 4 Jose Ramirez 3B/OF 106 99 86 96 100 45 17
24 4 Matt Kemp OF 80 87 75 86 97 114 15
25 4 Adam Jones OF 122 86 79 83 81 118 15
26 4 Jackie Bradley OF 99 76 107 88 89 115 15
27 4 Mark Trumbo OF 136 134 85 107 74 60 15
28 4 Billy Hamilton OF 120 111 127 87 77 92 15
29 4 Lorenzo Cain OF 123 121 102 89 92 101 14
30 5 Odubel Herrera OF 84 84 104 145 153 87 14
31 5 Andrew Benintendi OF 116 147 115 82 107 112 13
32 5 Stephen Piscotty OF 126 93 130 101 125 127 13
33 5 Ian Desmond OF 100 118 144 190 51 107 10
34 5 Adam Eaton OF 133 116 113 153 91 117 10
35 5 David Dahl OF 104 107 119 117 90 189 10
36 5 Kole Calhoun OF 109 133 125 140 126 142 10
37 5 Hunter Pence OF 111 122 138 124 158 141 10
38 5 Dexter Fowler OF 110 136 120 189 152 116 10
39 5 Ben Zobrist 2B/OF 132 117 157 183 150 109 9
40 5 Jose Peraza SS/OF 91 143 141 284 161 95 8
41 5 Joc Pederson OF 124 108 162 231 127 171 8
42 5 Adam Duvall OF 196 153 163 91 189 144 8

 

Outfield (Part One) Rankings Analysis: March Risers and Fallers

Rankings Risers:
Giancarlo Stanton

Oh, how the mighty have…risen? Giancarlo Stanton, who is literally mighty, has leapfrogged his way into this tier after residing behind A.J. Pollock inside of Tier Three in the February rankings. Perhaps this is because he’s still healthy as the season draws near? Or perhaps it’s because of that outrageous moonshot that he launched a few days ago. Despite my own moving him down three slots, Bill and Harris combined to give him a 19-point jump that put the true 50-homer threat into the second tier.

Khris Davis

Davis also stepped up a tier, going from early in the fourth tier to late in the third as we appear to be warming up to these big boppers. With the fears that Oakland Coliseum would zap the power that he flashed at Miller Park well in the rearview mirror, as well as now having a 150-game season under his belt, the 29-year-old should be able to repeat his 2016 with close to 40 homers and 100 RBIs for fantasy owners. This is one of the few bats in the league that can sustain a 25% HR/FB rate and that needs to be respected.

Lorenzo Cain

Cain also got a bump from five to four in the tier department, as he shoots up six slots – from No. 35 overall in the OF to No. 29. It looks as though myself, Bill and Harris all jumped him at least 20 spots in our rankings. If their thinking was anything like mine, it was simply that I was undervaluing the potential five-category contributions that Cain has shown to be capable of. While he’s never been able to play in more than 140 games at any point in his big-league career, Cain still has that 85/15/70/25/.300 kind of stat line well within reach. We do need to bake in some durability risk into the ranking, but now four of the six rankers are well ahead of his average ADP of 121.5.
Rankings Fallers:
Kris Bryant

Well, would you look at that? It would appear that Mookie Betts has overtaken Kris Bryant for the No. 2 thanks to a shift by Bill. While four of the six rankers had these three within their top three overall, Bill had Bryant at No. 3 in the February round of rankings and now he has slotted him back at No. 5 (but still ahead of Betts at No. 6). It doesn’t sound like much, but within the top-10 that’s a pretty big step. No one is going to sit here and tell you that Bryant is a bad selection, but Bill now has Jose Altuve, Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt ranked ahead of him. With Altuve and Goldschmidt able to provide serious five-category juice and Arenado's Coors-infused power, perhaps one should think twice about automatically putting Bryant into their top three.

Yoenis Cespedes

Cespedes slid behind Christian Yelich, Carlos Gonzalez and Justin Upton here. This may be partly due to an error in how far Bill wanted to push him down, as No. 143 is leagues beyond the next lowest ranking (No. 49), but that doesn’t change that many of us – myself included – checked in lower on Yo in March than we did in February. Bill’s rankings aside, Kyle and I both knocked him down roughly 10 spots each. While Cespedes’ power is undeniable, I myself just didn’t feel as confident in his durability to make him an early third-rounder in 12-team leagues.

Odubel Herrera

Herrera slides into the fifth tier after checking in from Tier Four in February, as I know that I felt like I was giving his red-hot start in 2016 too much weight. It was lovely, don’t get me wrong, but I’m rather confident that who he was over the final four months of the season is the type of baseline to expect moving forward. That is, a guy who should flirt with a 15/25 season, but with a .270 average rather than a mark challenging the .290s. His limited RBI opportunities from the two-hole in that Philadelphia lineup also cast quite the shadow.

Tune in tomorrow for part two!

 

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