Instead of repeating players I’ve previously touted in other offseason articles, the following five players are fresh faces. They have an average draft position (ADP) throughout the entirety of fantasy baseball drafts. There’s also a mix of hitters and pitchers.
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Yordan Alvarez (OF, DH – HOU): 31 ADP
Yordan Alvarez’s 2025 was a lost campaign. He was limited to only 199 plate appearances with a fracture in his right hand and a left-ankle sprain.
According to FanGraphs, Alvarez had just a .273 batting average, .430 slugging rate and six homers in 2025. However, the left-handed slugger’s .284 expected batting average (xBA) and .549 expected slugging rate (xSLG) painted a friendlier picture of his work.
Before last year’s injury-plagued season, Alvarez had rattled off four straight years with at least 31 homers, and he logged 598, 561, 496 and 635 plate appearances in those seasons. Among qualified hitters from 2021 through 2024, Alvarez was tied for sixth in home runs (136), 18th in runs (352), tied for ninth in RBI (384), tied for fourth in batting average (.296), sixth in expected batting average (.295), fifth in on-base percentage (.387) and second in weighted runs created plus (164 wRC+).
Alvarez averaged 32.7 home runs, 84.5 runs, 92.2 RBI and 1.9 stolen bases per 550 plate appearances during those four years. Gamers should forgive Alvarez for his injury-plagued 2025 and buy the slight discount on him this season. He’s a four-category asset who can lay the foundation in runs, RBI, homers and batting average.
Logan Webb (SP – SF): 49.5 ADP
Logan Webb is a workhorse. He’s exceeded 200 innings pitched in three straight seasons. Since 2023, Webb has thrown an MLB-high 627.2 innings, 61.1 clear of Framber Valdez‘s 566.1 in second.
The 29-year-0ld righty is coming off a fantastic campaign. In 34 starts spanning 207 innings, Webb recorded the following stats:
- 15 wins
- 3.22 ERA
- 3.58 xERA
- 2.78 xFIP
- 3.14 SIERA
- 1.24 WHIP
- 5.4% Walk Rate
- 26.2% Strikeout Rate
- 53.2% Groundball Rate
- 10.7 SwStr%
- 30.4 CSW%
- 105 Stuff+
- 107 Location+
- 111 Pitching+
Webb’s strikeout rate was his highest since 2021, and it was supported by his highest called-strikes-plus-whiffs rate since 2021. Webb was the 17th-ranked pitcher by our value-based ranking (VBR) metric in 2025. Drafting Webb as an SP1 or a high-end SP2 will provide fantasy baseball teams with a hefty workload and the flexibility to roll the dice on a pitcher or two with quality ratios but a modest innings projection.
Corey Seager (SS – TEX): 81.3 ADP
Corey Seager’s 445 plate appearances in 2025 were his fewest in a season since 2021. He missed time with a hamstring injury and after undergoing an appendectomy. Seager isn’t a stranger to missing time. Nevertheless, he recorded 663 plate appearances in 2022, 536 in 2023 and 533 in 2024. Thus, Seager’s injuries were rarely serious enough to cost him too much time.
The veteran shortstop was fantastic, albeit also unlucky, when he was healthy last year. Seager had the following stats in 102 games and 445 plate appearances last season:
- 21 Home Runs
- 61 Runs
- 50 RBI
- 3 Stolen Bases
- .271 Batting Average
- .285 xBA
- .373 OBP
- .487 SLG
- .569 xSLG
- 138 wRC+
According to Baseball Savant, among qualified batters last season, Seager was 18th in barrels per plate appearance rate (10.1 Brls/PA%), tied for 19th in fly-ball/line-drive exit velocity (96.7 miles per hour) and tied for 12th in expected batting average (.285). Seager’s -0.014 gap between his batting average and his expected average was tied for the 29th-largest negative difference.
Among qualified batters since 2023, Seager is tied for 19th in homers (84), tied for 65th in runs (217), tied for 52nd in RBI (220), 10th in batting average (.294), ninth in expected batting average (.290), tied for 10th in on-base percentage (.372) and sixth in weighted runs created plus (152 wRC+).
The left-handed-hitting shortstop has per-550 plate appearance averages of 30.5 dingers, 78.8 runs, 79.8 RBI and 2.2 stolen bases. Seager is cut from the same cloth as Alvarez, and drafting them together will provide gamers with an excellent starting point for homers, runs, RBI and batting average, opening the door for gamers to either draft well-rounded hitters to fill the stolen-base void they leave or mix in a one-trick pony or two for stolen bases.
Nick Lodolo (SP – CIN): 142 ADP
Nick Lodolo hit the ground running in The Show in 2022, twirling a 3.66 ERA, largely supported by his 3.82 xERA, 3.49 xFIP and 3.29 SIERA. Sadly, the lefty mostly maintained rock-solid or better ERA estimators, but he logged a 6.29 ERA in seven starts in 2023 and a 4.76 ERA in 21 starts in 2024.
Lodolo got back on track in 2025, as his underlying data suggested he eventually would. In 29 appearances (28 starts), Lodolo pitched well across 156.2 innings, posting the following stats and rankings among 70 pitchers with at least 150 innings pitched:
- 3.33 ERA (20th)
- 3.50 xERA (17th)
- 3.66 xFIP (17th)
- 3.57 SIERA (13th)
- 1.08 WHIP (tied for 15th)
- 4.8% Walk Rate (tied for 3rd)
- 24.3% Strikeout Rate (24th)
- 28.4 CSW% (tied for 16th)
- 102 Stuff+ (tied for 24th)
- 101 Location+ (tied for 37th)
- 100 Pitching+ (tied for 35th)
Lodolo’s surface stats were pristine, his underlying data were outstanding and even his pitch modeling was stellar. Lodolo was the SP26 in VBR in 2025, and he’s just the SP40 in ADP. He’s a nifty SP3 target or a high-end SP4 option in 12-team mixed leagues.
Daylen Lile (OF – WSH): 256.8 ADP
Daylen Lile put the finishing touches on his tenure in the Minors before an eye-catching 91 games and 351 plate appearances for the Nationals. In 47 games and 213 plate appearances (21 games and 94 plate appearances in Double-A and 26 and 119 in Triple-A) in the Upper Minors last year, Lile hit four homers with 35 runs, 29 RBI, 12 stolen bases, a 6.6% walk rate, a 15.5% strikeout rate, .328 batting average, .377 on-base percentage and 143 wRC+.
Lile wasn’t a world-beater prospect, but he wasn’t entirely off the radar, either. MLB Pipeline ranked him seventh in the Nationals’ organization and gave him grades of 55 for hit, 45 for power and 55 for run on the 20-to-80 scouting scale. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs ranked him fifth in the organization, grading his hit tool 40 present with a 55 future grade, game power 40 current and 45 future and run 60 present and 60 future.
Lile made a seamless transition from raking in the Upper Minors to do so in the Majors, amassing the following numbers in 91 games and 351 plate appearances for the Nationals:
- 9 Home Runs
- 51 Runs
- 41 RBI
- 8 Stolen Bases
- 6% Walk Rate
- 16% Strikeout Rate
- .299 Batting Average
- .302 xBA
- .347 OBP
- .498 SLG
- .449 xSLG
- 132 wRC+
After getting eased in, Lile finished the season by batting cleanup in his final 20 games in 2025. A prominent lineup spot will award Lile with run-production potential to complement a fabulous batting average.
Lile might also have more stolen potential than meets the eye. As a rookie, he stole eight bases but was caught six times. However, he still had 20 stolen bases across the Upper Minors and Majors last year, marking three straight seasons of reaching at least 20. Moreover, according to Baseball Savant, among 579 players with at least 10 opportunities, Lile was tied for 47th in sprint speed (29.1 feet per second). Lile’s sprint speed was identical to Jarren Duran‘s and Elly De La Cruz‘s. Lile can scoot and is a helium candidate if he hits in spring training. Regardless, Lile is grossly underpriced now and a tantalizing target.
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