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Vinnie Pasquantino 2026 Fantasy Baseball Outlook: RBI Machine with Improved Power Looks Like a Value
Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino had a career year in 2025, hitting .264 with 32 home runs, 113 RBI, and 72 runs scored, good for a .340 wOBA and 116 wRC+. He was able to amass these totals thanks to staying healthy for the entirety of the campaign, playing in 160 games after injuries cut short his 2023 and 2024 seasons. The RBI total was the sixth-most in all of baseball and just one behind AL MVP Aaron Judge. The left-handed slugger continued to put the bat on the ball at a solid rate as he's done throughout his career, with an 83.4 percent contact rate and better-than-average 15.7 percent strikeout rate, while improving his barrel rate almost four percent, up to 10.8 percent for the season. If there are some things to critique, the 28-year-old chases a lot of pitches and walks at a below-average rate, while also displaying middle-of-the-road bat speed and hard-hit rates. Even his improved barrel rate is just 65th percentile, so a repeat of last year's power numbers could be a challenge. Even so, producing something like a .265-28-90-80-1 line is plenty productive, especially for someone with an NFBC ADP around 88 overall. RotoBaller ranks the Old Dominion product at 78 overall, so he still looks like a value pick in 2026.
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