⚾️📈MLBMA 2025 Fantasy Baseball Top-500 Update: Risers and Fallers 📈⚾️
By the reigning back-to-back FSWA winner-- "When you work this hard, winning feels a lot less like luck"
Top-500 Update:
Moving players around in real-time as news/spring training develops
Using a 🚑 emoji to denote current injuries/injury concerns
Recent Huge Drops Down Ranks & Subsequent Risers
Spencer Steer, CIN — Can’t play field, so I doubt he can steal. CES is moving up every day. Austin Hays gets a bump as well.
Will Smith, LAD — Ankle bruise from World Series? Plus, no designated hitter at-bats kills value.
Luis Gil, NYY — Undraftable in non-IL leagues. It’s bad. Boost Will Warren, he’s got skills. If he nabs a rotation spot, he’s a must-draft at cost.
Aaron Ashby, MIL — Hurt already, as always, I wouldn’t even bother. Added Jose Quintana to SP Tier 8.
Giancarlo Stanton, NYY — Double elbow problems, he could be dust. Boosting Ben Rice up ranks.
DJ LeMahieu, NYY — Going for MRI, also could be dust. Added Oswald Peraza to ranks.
Félix Bautista, BAL — Won’t pitch back-to-back days, not great for your RP1.
Sean Murphy, ATL — Fractured rib. Can’t roster injured catchers. Added prospect Drake Baldwin to the rookie stashbox.
Sean Manaea, NYM — Going to miss time, undraftable in non-IL leagues. My guess is David Peterson breaks camp in rotation.
Parker Meadows, DET — Out indefinitely, and Tigers need a leadoff man. Wenceel Pérez becomes fantasy viable.
Added To Ranks
Kenta Maeda, DET — Looking sharp in ST, will almost definitely get a rotation spot.
Daulton Varsho, TOR — Was waiting to see him in action, hit a ST bomb after adjusting leg kick.
Kris Bubic, KC — Sharp in ST, stretched out to start with chance to break camp as a backend SP.
How To Wield The Full Power Of The Top-500
Image below, left: Click green “Filter” symbol that looks like a wi-fi icon.
Image below, right: First press “clear”. Then press “(Blanks)” - a checkmark will appear
Image below, left: Then type the position you want to isolate.
Notice when I started typing “OF”, the “Select All…” changed from 21 to 6.
Press “OK”. You can click any combination you’d like
Image below, right: Only the position you asked for will be shown, but because you pressed (Blanks), the other tiers pop up for a much better macro perspective.
Reset back to normal by clicking the green “Filter” symbol again, and “Select All 21”
Underdog Update:
Ran a full Underdog update with all the new on-site ADPs, ready for upload. Available with data sheets.
Moved Manaea, Stanton all injured guys way down — didn’t really punish W.Langford or H.Ramos for obliques …yet.
Instructions to upload my Underdog Ranks:
--Open “Underdog” tab on the datasheet
--Go to FILE -> DOWNLOAD -> DOWNLOAD AS .CSV
--Open underdog dot com and log in
--Go to RANKINGS -> MLB -> MLB 2025 SEASON (we do not want “MLB way too early 2025 season”)
--First go to LIMITS (top right, next to rankings tab) and set all three to 7 (this will keep you from over-drafting any position if you get auto'd)
--Click RANKINGS -> CSV UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD -> CSV UPLOAD
--Choose the file of mine you saved to begin with and click SAVE
That’s it -- as new versions pop up, just repeat the process (or you can shift on your own, then SAVE). Let me know if you have any issues…
AVAILABLE AT #MLBMA 2025 RIGHT NOW (ADDING DAILY UNTIL OPENING DAY)
⚾TOP 500 OVERALL TIERED RANKINGS NOW ON DATA SHEETS!(Downloadable as .csv as well)
⚾ Individual Hitter Stats + SP Stats Advanced Data Sheets (w/projections) are LIVE at the link below
⚾Point league projections and stats added for CBS and Yahoo specific formats
⚾*NEW* Uploadable, color-coded Underdog Best Ball Ranks (Data sheet)
⚾Underdog and Draftkings specific Best Ball Hitter/Pitcher Projections (Total Pts + Pts PER Plate Appearance / Pts per IP)
⚾ Detailed Write-ups On Top-50 ADP — Now moving on to player requests from paid subs
⚾ “Playing Time” Tab Added — All 32 Teams complete daily batting lineups with SP handedness to identify benchings or inconsistencies in playing time. Use the ‘filter’ key to separate by team, and away you go!
⚾ Sortable Fantasy ADP (w/min and max picks)
⚾ 2024 Fantasy Player Rater
⚾Available to subs for keeper/roster questions 24/7
⚾ *NEW* CORKED STATS Team Preview Podcast Series: I’ll continue adding these every few days, 100% FREE FOR EVERYONE ON SPOTIFY OR APPLE PODCASTS
- Transactions
- Projected Lineup / Rotation
- Stat Walkthrough For Entire Team
- Favorite Draft Values At ADP
- Lots of F-Bombs
COMING SOON:
In-draft Fantasy Cheat Sheet
MLB FUTURE BETS