| | | | Thursday, March 31, 2022 | | Happy Thursday, everyone! If you're like me, you're simply counting down the hours until this weekend because that marks your final Fantasy Baseball drafts -- typically the most meaningful ones. Whether it's your home league that's been going for over a decade with a rising tide of smack talk or a larger buy in and deeper league -- the best leagues tend to do everything in their power to host the draft the final weekend before the regular season gets underway. The reason is simple -- minimize the variance of roster movement and most importantly injuries. If you were drafting even just two weeks ago, your roster might have both Jack Flaherty and Zac Gallen as your SP2 and SP3 right now. And that would suck. | | Today we're going to try to turn this newsletter into a bit of a mini draft guide -- or draft reference -- however you want to call it. The objective is to provide a slew of resources within this one newsletter that you can reference during your drafts and in the coming hours before them. We'll dive into Scott White's latest positional tiers, recent updates from the entire Fantasy Baseball Today crew on their sleepers, breakouts and busts picks for 2022, where you can find all of our recent mock draft and real-league draft recaps, deep sleepers for your late-round draft stashes (keeper leagues), and more. So without further ado, let's dive into it. | | And of course, as always, you can follow to make sure you get the latest episodes of Fantasy Baseball Today right when they drop on Apple and Spotify. | | | | Printable draft guide | | The guide includes top-300 rankings sortable for both Roto and H2H formats. Each top 300 includes every player's ADP and our auction/salary cap values for said player. You'll also get position-by-position rankings, a lineup chart where you can fill out your rosters as you go for snake drafts and a salary cap tracker for auction drafts. And the best part -- it's all printable (for those who, like me, enjoy the process of crossing out names as they come off the board.) | | Mock drafts | | We've done a whole lot of mock drafts recently, and went into hyper-speed mode once the lockout was lifted. Below are links to Scott's recaps of each mock with key takeaways and results (where every player was drafted). There are also a wide variety of mocks, including AL and NL-only leagues that might fit your format more specifically. | 3/30: 12-team Roto mock
3/25: NL-only salary cap draft
3/24: AL-only salary cap draft
3/22: 12-team Roto salary cap draft
3/18: 12-team H2H salary cap draft
3/15: 12-team H2H categories mock
3/9: Tout Wars draft
3/8: 12-team H2H points mock
3/2: 12-team Roto mock | | Sleepers, Breakouts, Busts | | | | Below we'll highlight some of the top sleepers, breakouts and busts picks from Scott, Frank and Chris. You'll find the link to the full pieces from each of them hyperlinked next to their first pick for each category. | | | | Sleepers | | Riley Greene, OF, Tigers - Scott (for more of Scott's sleepers, you'll find them here)Aaron Ashby, RP, Brewers - ScottMackenzie Gore, SP, Padres - ScottJoey Bart, C, Giants - Chris (for more of Towers' sleepers, you'll find them here)Luke Voit, 1B, Padres - ChrisAlex Bohm, 3B, Phillies - ChrisEddie Rosario, OF, Braves - Frank (for more of Frank's sleepers, you'll find them here)Andrew Benintendi, OF, Royals Jesus Luzardo, SP, Marlins | | Deeper sleepers | | Play in a deeper league? Scott's deep sleepers list (you can find it here) is perfect for your draft. Among the players featured in last year's deep sleepers article were Joey Votto, Ty France, Jonathan India, Myles Straw, Hunter Renfroe, Tyler O'Neill, Robbie Ray, Trevor Rogers, Carlos Rodon, Logan Webb and Freddy Peralta. Here are a few of the standout sleepers who I continue to find myself looking to never leave drafts without: | | Alejandro Kirk, C, Blue JaysKeston Hiura, 1B, BrewersRiley Greene, OF, TigersConnor Joe, OF, RockiesBailey Ober, SP, TwinsMitch Keller, SP, RoyalsAaron Ashby, RP, Brewers (*perfect SPARP target in H2H points leagues) | | Breakouts | | | | Corey Seager, SS, Rangers - Scott (you can find all of his breakouts here)Frankie Montas, SP, Athletics - ScottKyle Schwarber, OF, Phillies - Scott Willy Adames, SS, Brewers - Frank (you can find all of his breakouts here)Lourdes Gurriel, OF, Blue Jays - FrankEduardo Rodriguez, SP, Tigers - FrankJo Adell, OF, Angels - Chris (you can find all of his breakouts here)Logan Gilbert, SP, Mariners - Chris Byron Buxton, OF, Twins - Chris | | Busts | | Cody Bellinger, OF, Dodgers - Scott (you can find all of his busts here)Marcus Semien, 2B/SS, Rangers - Scott Randy Arozarena, OF, RaysDaulton Varsho, C/OF, Diamondbacks - Frank (you can find all of his busts here)Austin Riley, 3B, Braves - FrankRyan Mountcastle, 1B, Orioles - FrankJared Walsh, 1B, Angels - Chris (you can find all of his busts here)Shane Bieber, SP, Guardians Jazz Chisholm, 2B, Marlins | | | | Scott's tiers | | Sometimes all you're looking for is a tier-based rankings of each position and I get it. In draft, it's incredibly important to know when to strike at each position and tiers help immensely with this. If you start to see a tier dwindle down, you know it's time to act fast. Here are Scott's latest updates to his positional tiers: | RP Tiers 3.0
SP Tiers 3.0
SS Tiers 3.0
3B Tiers 3.0
2B Tiers 3.0
1B Tiers 3.0
OF Tiers 3.0
C Tiers 3.0 | | | | | | | | |
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