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Projecting Rest of Season Top 10 Hitters in 2025 Fantasy Baseball (Week 10)

Cal Raleigh - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Ryan Kirksey projects which 10 hitters will finish the season in the top 10 for the 2025 fantasy baseball season as we head into Week 10 of MLB action.

We are getting to the point of the fantasy baseball season where there are certain thresholds a player must have to even sniff the top-10 hitters for 2025. Around 40 runs and 40 RBI are a must. In most cases, 15 or more home runs are required, and if you don't have those, you'd better have a very high batting average or at least 15 steals.

This is also about the time of year when many players' performances begin to round into what they will be this year. That's why six players overlap between the current top-10 hitters in fantasy baseball and the projected top-10 list. In only a few cases, I believe players have some fixable or mechanical adjustment they can make to propel them to this elite list for 2025.

In the case of many players, the numbers are starting to stabilize. In other players, more plate appearances are needed to make a firm decision. But in fantasy baseball, the stats we have are all that we can use. Making future judgments based on current data is the name of the game! It's a long season, and much baseball is left to be played. I will take a closer look at the current top-10 hitters in fantasy and make some predictions about who ends up there when it's all said and done in October.

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Current Top 10 Hitters for Fantasy Baseball

According to Yahoo's player rankings, here are the top 10 most valuable hitters in 5x5 roto leagues as of  June 2, 2025.

Hitter R HR RBI SB AVG
Aaron Judge 55 21 50 4 0.391
Shohei Ohtani 64 23 39 11 0.292
Pete Crow-Armstrong 46 15 51 19 0.280
Cal Raleigh 39 23 45 6 0.264
Kyle Tucker 44 11 39 16 0.284
Elly De La Cruz 46 12 43 17 0.257
James Wood 38 16 44 9 0.286
Kyle Schwarber 44 19 44 4 0.266
Francisco Lindor 39 14 36 11 0.285
Jose Ramirez 36 11 29 14 0.327

The top three hitters from last week remain unchanged as Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, and Pete Crow-Armstrong retained their stranglehold on the top spots in fantasy baseball. Judge's quest to hit .400 is not moving in the right direction, but he has such a lead in that category that even with falling behind several players in home runs, he is still fantasy's best hitter.

Number four is where things start to get interesting. The Big Dumper himself, Cal Raleigh, makes his first appearance on the list this season thanks to 23 home runs, six stolen bases, and a very good average considering Raleigh's history. Raleigh is actually on pace to break Aaron Judge's American League home run record of 62 in 2022.

Injury concerns for Kyle Tucker might force him out of the top 10 in weeks to come, but for now, he remains a top-5 option thanks to strong numbers in all five fantasy categories. The Cubs have come out and said Tucker should not need an IL stint for his finger injury, but we will have to see if he is limited in the days to come.

James Wood moves from 10th to seventh this week as he continues to excel up and down his box scores this season. The Washington Nationals may be a bad team once again, but with Wood, MacKenzie Gore, and Dylan Crews anchoring a young core, their future is bright.

Very few players have at least 44 runs and 44 RBI this season, but Kyle Schwarber is one of them. Add in his 19 home runs, and we have a hitter who should be able to maintain a top 10 or top 15 spot all season, even as he remains stalled on four stolen bases. Like Raleigh, Schwarber is also doing more than his fantasy managers expected in batting average.

Every week, it seems like a different New York Met makes the top 10 list, and this week it is Francisco Lindor's turn. Over the last seven days, Lindor is hitting .385/.429/.885 with four home runs and a stolen base. He remains one of the very few elite shortstops in fantasy baseball.

Only one hitter in baseball is hitting at least .300 with double-digit home runs and stolen bases. That player's name is Jose Ramirez. After a mediocre start, J-Ram has come on fast over the last month and is among the league leaders in many hitting categories now.

 

Projected Top 10 Hitters for Fantasy Baseball

Using a blend of ATC projections, Nick Mariano's projections, and my own opinions, here is my projected top-10 finish for hitters in the last four months of the 2025 fantasy baseball season.

Hitter Projection Current Rank
Aaron Judge 1 1
Shohei Ohtani 2 2
Jose Ramirez 3 10
Elly De La Cruz 4 6
Pete Crow-Armstrong 5 3
Kyle Tucker 6 5
Bobby Witt Jr. 7 19
Fernando Tatis Jr. 8 17
Rafael Devers 9 12
Corbin Carroll 10 11

On Tuesday night, Ohtani tied Raleigh with his 23rd home run while Judge went hitless. These two should continue to battle head-to-head for fantasy hitter supremacy, with both being head and shoulders above the field at the end of the year.

Ramirez's surge looks sustainable enough to propel him to a top spot by the end of the season. His hard-hit rate and barrel rate are up over 2024. He is on pace for a 30/30 season, and he is striking out at the lowest rate of his career.

De La Cruz is starting to find his power stroke and has four home runs and 10 RBI over the last two weeks. He only has one steal in that span, but we know that's the part of his game that can come in bunches. Seven-steal weeks were not uncommon for De La Cruz in 2024.

Last week, Seiya Suzuki was on the top 10 list, but fell off this time because of low stolen base numbers. If there is anything that might hurt these elite Cubs bats this year, it will be their teammates. They often cannibalize each other's opportunities. That means they should all be great this year, but might miss out on any all-time seasons.

Bobby Witt Jr. has endured an awful last seven days where he has hit below .200 and has not had any power at all. Witt and the Royals' lack of power is part of the reason why they called up Jac Caglianone this weekend. But Witt was on a massive roll before the first of June, and should come back soon. He just needs to get his power numbers up over the seven home runs he currently has.

Fernando Tatis Jr. and Corbin Carroll were both fixtures in the top 10 list for the first eight or nine weeks of the season, but fell out because of Raleigh and Lindor's big weeks. Both of these players have the five-category consistency to move back into the top 10 when players like Schwarber, Raleigh, or Wood see slight dips.

After a dismal 0-for-24 start to the season, Rafael Devers is now one of the top 15 hitters in baseball and has managed to take over the major league lead with 53 RBI. With a .285 average and a .511 slugging percentage, things seem to be back on track for the Red Sox DH.

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