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Bobby Sylvester’s 2020 Fantasy Baseball Rankings (January)

Bobby Sylvester’s 2020 Fantasy Baseball Rankings (January)

It’s that time of the year, friends, where fantasy baseball is right around the corner and it is time to start thinking about our drafts. Today, I’ll give you my top 275 player rankings with positional tabs to sort through and comparisons to ECR (Our expert consensus rankings — see them here), which is the expert consensus rankings. There will be plenty changing as more players sign and we get more information on injuries and depth charts, but as of now, this is how I would draft my teams. This list is also dynamic, so as I make tweaks every week, you’ll see those updates on this page. We’ll get to the rankings in a moment, but first I’ll tell you about four players I am especially bullish on this season at their current prices.

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Ketel Marte (OF – ARI): #32 overall vs ECR #42
Oh, don’t mind me, I’ll just be drafting a 2019 top 12 fantasy hitter in the late third round this season. I’m just gonna throw a stat-line out there for you: 35 HR, 92 RBIs, 110 R, 24 SB, .308 BA. “Is that Marte?”, you might ask. No, it’s Mike Trout‘s career average, but it might as well have been Marte, as he batted .329 with 30 HRs, 92 RBIs, 97 R and 10 SB. Ok, so do I have your attention? It would be one thing if this was some journeyman with no pedigree behind his name but we are talking about a 25-year-old bonafide superstar in the making who just happens to be flying under the radar for who knows what reason. The kid is a monster. Draft him with confidence realizing just how dang good he was.

Eduardo Escobar (3B/SS – ARI): #87 overall vs #134
So apparently we are just going to start things off with two Arizona Diamondbacks. And look, I get it, Escobar was a nobody before last year with 71 career homers and a .257 batting average in 9 MLB seasons. Yuck. But are we seriously going to just ignore the fact that he hit 35 homers and outproduced Javier Baez, Kris Bryant, Josh Donaldson, Jose Ramirez and Manny Machado last year? That isn’t a small deal, and it’s not like we haven’t seen these “random” breakout players go on to continue producing after one big year. Does anyone remember where J.D. Martinez was before his huge year? Or Jose Ramirez? Or Charlie Blackmon? We all laughed at the dweebs who drafted them believing in a repeat performance. I’m fine with being the one they laugh at this year.

Madison Bumgarner (SP – ARI): #99 overall vs #122
Look, guys, I swear this isn’t intentional, and frankly, I could have included Zac Gallen (+21 vs ECR), Robbie Ray (+26 vs ECR) and Luke Weaver (+53 ECR) too. I guess the point is that I believe the young 85-win Diamondbacks are quite underrated. Let’s get to Bumgarner, though, who may not be the Cy Young contender he once was, but is still that durable workhorse who will rack up 200+ Ks, reliable ratios and with this D-Backs team behind him, wins should be easier to come by than they were in San Francisco too. Bumgarner is still just 30 years old and hasn’t had a single bad season yet. You can say he is trending down because of last year’s final stat-line, but then what do you do with the fact that he was a rockstar from mid-June on?

Miguel Sano (1B/3B – MIN): #137 overall vs #190 ECR
The final spot, and only not Arizona spot belongs to one of my must-have mid-round targets in Sano. It could have been Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (+44 vs ECR), Lance McCullers Jr. (+35 vs ECR), Keone Kela (+48 vs ECR) or J.D. Davis (+37 vs ECR) but you’ll hear plenty more about them from me all off-season. Sano, meanwhile, hit 34 homers with 79 RBIs and 76 runs. Oh, and he did it in just 99 starts. Folks, that’s a 50+, 120+ HR/RBI pace! Is he going to healthy all year? Maybe. He is moving to first base, after all, but even if he just played games again at that rate, he’d outperform a dozen guys who are being drafted in the top 100 picks. This one is just a little too easy, friends.

 

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