This whole month I’ve been working on prospect pieces including my Top 400 MLB Prospects Worldwide, 40 MLB Prospects Who Will Breakout in 2020, Top MLB Amateur Prospects and Top MLB International Prospects. Today, we make the jump to combine all of those prospects with current MLB players in order to assess their dynasty values.
I know some of you are psychos, like myself, who play in extraordinarily deep leagues so I figured it couldn’t hurt to just extend my list out to 1,000 players. This list includes 435 prospects including high schoolers, 15-year-olds in the Dominican Republic and superstars in Japan in case your league allows for all of that. With all that said, before we get to the rankings I’m going to breakdown five players that I’ve been getting a lot of questions on for dynasty leagues this preseason.
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This whole month I’ve been working on prospect pieces including my Top 400 MLB Prospects Worldwide, 40 MLB Prospects Who Will Breakout in 2020, Top MLB Amateur Prospects and Top MLB International Prospects. Today, we make the jump to combine all of those prospects with current MLB players in order to assess their dynasty values.
I know some of you are psychos, like myself, who play in extraordinarily deep leagues so I figured it couldn’t hurt to just extend my list out to 1,000 players. This list includes 435 prospects including high schoolers, 15-year-olds in the Dominican Republic and superstars in Japan in case your league allows for all of that. With all that said, before we get to the rankings I’m going to breakdown five players that I’ve been getting a lot of questions on for dynasty leagues this preseason.
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Eloy Jimenez (23 yr old OF – CWS)
Last year’s top-five consensus prospect started off the year so poorly that it may have left a sour taste in your mouth. If that’s the case, you surely weren’t paying close enough attention to the way he finished things up. This Manny Ramirez type youngster was sensational over the last two months, dragging his OPS up from .747 on the season to an .828 finish (higher than Eddie Rosario, Rhys Hoskins and Paul Goldschmidt). In fact, if you pro-rate those two months out to a full season, he was on a 50-homer, 142 RBI, .325 BA pace. That will likely never happen in his career, but it just goes to show that the upside is still very much real. If he were still a prospect, I’d rather have him than everyone else except Wander Franco and his teammate, Luis Robert.
Dinelson Lamet (27 yr old SP – SDP)
When you look at the final line for Lamet, his season may not seem all that impressive. But when you account for the fact that he missed 22 months and essentially used his return in July as his Spring Training, it makes a little more sense. From August on, he was downright filthy with 75 Ks in 50 innings. I probably don’t need to tell you that over 200 innings, that translated to 300 strikeouts. Not only that, but hitters only batted .211 against him in that stretch despite a BABIP above .300. This should all come as no surprise, of course, seeing that he was among the most dominant rookies in MLB history from a K/9 and H/9 standpoint. Yes, he is older, but don’t be surprised at all of this unhittable late-bloomer becomes a perennial Cy Young candidate. He certainly has that type of upside.
Julio Urias (23 yr old SP – LAD)
While we are talking about unhittable youngsters, let’s move onto a guy who has been in the bigs now for four seasons but is still just 23 years old. Through 184 MLB innings, the former top prospect has done everything asked of him, tossing out 187 Ks to go with a 3.18 ERA. Now that Dave Roberts has said Urias is will be the Dodgers’ #4 starter, we should finally see the fireworks we’ve been waiting for. And again, the tremendous performance we’ve seen thus far has been while he batted with injuries and at an age that most pitchers were still trying to get out 19-year-old Single-A hitters. And if you are worried about a potential innings limit, the Dodgers have also said he’ll be under no restrictions. Don’t be shocked when L.A. enters the playoffs with three legitimate aces.
Scott Kingery (25 yr old 2B/3B/SS/OF – PHI)
After an abysmal rookie season, the former top prospect started off unbelievably hot to begin 2019. He carried a 1.000+ OPS into late June with a 35/14/.331 pace. While the second half was a much different story (Kingery batted .220 with a .679 OPS), he still offered a 19/23 HR/SB pace which when paired with multi-position eligibility, gives fantasy owners a terrific floor. With a full bill of health for the third-year player, his upside is in the 30/20 range with a strong batting average. He is the ultimate buy-low in dynasty leagues right now.
Alex Reyes (25 yr old SP/RP – STL)
And if it’s a buy-low dynasty pitcher you are looking for, I’d highly recommend you put in an offer for Reyes before it is too late. With Miles Mikolas now dealing with a forearm injury, it seems likely that he will miss some time or even be shut down. That leaves the final spot up for grabs between Kwang-Hyun Kim, Reyes, and Daniel Ponce de Leon. Among them, Kim is considered the frontrunner, but Reyes is far and away the most talented. In fact, he has been receiving rave reviews from the coaching staff already and they’ve said all winter that they’d love to have him in the rotation if he was healthy and his velocity was back to where it should be. If Reyes wins this job, he could be the breakout ace of the year for fantasy teams. Think of this in a similar light to when Carlos Martinez went from likely reliever to the Cardinals’ best pitcher by winning a rotation spot in the Spring back in 2015.
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