2015 Fantasy Baseball Big Board Rankings

Author:
Braden Gall
Publish date:
Mar 19, 2015

Fantasy baseball leagues can be won from every location in the draft — early in the round or late — and with any variety of strategies. Some take pitching early while others wait on arms. Some like to go after veteran players in the twilight of their careers with low risk, while others go after youthful upside and the risk that comes along with it.

There are a ton of decisions to be made on draft day when constructing a fake baseball team. And while a fantasy league cannot be won in the first few rounds, it most certainly can be lost. Screwing up an early pick can decimate a roster in no time flat.

Enter Athlon Sports' consensus fantasy baseball Big Board. Rankings culled from CBS Sports (Scott White), ESPN, FOX, MLB.com, USA Today, Sports Illustrated (SI) and Yahoo! (in order) have been combined and averaged to offer the best possible fantasy baseball rankings on the web.

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Note: Yu Darvish has been omitted from FOX Sports (33rd), Sports Illustrated (27th) and Yahoo! (36th) rankings due to his elbow injury, which resulted in season-ending Tommy John surgery.

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2015 Fantasy Baseball Big Board:


	Name	Team	Pos.	CBS	ESPN	FOX	MLB	USA	SI	Y!
1	Mike Trout	LAA	OF	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Andrew McCutchen	PIT	OF	3	2	3	3	2	2	2
3	Giancarlo Stanton	MIA	OF	5	3	2	2	4	5	6
4	Paul Goldschmidt	ARI	1B	4	4	5	4	3	3	5
5	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	SP	6	5	6	5	5	4	3
6	Miguel Cabrera	DET	3B	2	11	4	6	8	7	4
7	Carlos Gomez	MIL	OF	11	6	7	7	6	8	7
8	Jose Abreu	CHW	1B	7	9	8	8	7	6	8
9	Jose Bautista	TOR	OF	10	8	9	11	15	12	10
10	Edwin Encarnacion	TOR	3B	9	7	13	14	11	10	12
11	Adam Jones	BAL	OF	19	15	17	10	9	11	9
12	Felix Hernandez	SEA	SP	16	10	10	13	14	15	13
13	Anthony Rizzo	CHC	1B	12	13	11	16	20	9	11
14	Robinson Cano	SEA	2B	17	12	14	12	16	14	14
15	Jose Altuve	HOU	2B	13	19	18	9	18	20	15
16	Troy Tulowitzki	COL	SS	8	14	12	15	17	18	28
17	Anthony Rendon	WAS	2B/3B	14	20	16	24	12	13	17
18	Max Scherzer	WAS	SP	21	21	19	22	13	24	16
19	Yasiel Puig	LAD	OF	18	16	21	18	28	21	18
20	Adrian Beltre	TEX	3B	24	17	20	32	22	16	19
21	Chris Sale	CHW	SP	23	24	26	21	25	17	20
22	Michael Brantley	CLE	OF	25	22	30	19	23	25	22
23	Hanley Ramirez	BOS	SS	35	30	23	20	10	28	21
24	Ian Desmond	WAS	SS	38	26	22	28	19	19	24
25	Jacoby Ellsbury	NYY	OF	27	23	28	17	29	33	23
26	Josh Donaldson	TOR	3B	15	32	29	31	32	23	27
27	Stephen Strasburg	WAS	SP	28	25	36	27	37	22	25
28	Madison Bumgarner	SF	SP	31	28	31	29	24	34	26
29	Buster Posey	SF	C/1B	39	29	15	23	27	43	32
30	Freddie Freeman	ATL	1B	33	18	24	42	34	30	29
31	David Price	DET	SP	20	33	27	33	33	35	35
32	Ryan Braun	MIL	OF	30	27	41	34	21	40	30
33	Corey Kluber	CLE	SP	22	31	25	30	35	41	39
34	Justin Upton	SD	OF	40	34	38	25	31	26	34
35	Bryce Harper	WAS	OF	34	36	35	36	30	29	31
36	Johnny Cueto	CIN	SP	26	38	34	37	43	57	52
37	Zack Greinke	LAD	SP	42	39	49	47	39	42	38
38	Jose Reyes	TOR	SS	49	42	32	38	26	54	56
39	Starling Marte	PIT	OF	67	37	43	26	48	32	53
40	Albert Pujols	LAA	1B	36	48	47	41	40	55	40
41	Jon Lester	CHC	SP	37	41	51	49	54	46	43
42	Corey Dickerson	COL	OF	65	35	46	35	72	31	41
43	Carlos Gonzalez	COL	OF	66	49	37	52	41	36	47
44	Adrian Gonzalez	LAD	1B	51	50	39	60	58	38	33
45	Jordan Zimmermann	WAS	SP	54	44	54	48	47	51	51
46	Matt Kemp	SD	OF	41	54	61	51	45	49	57
47	George Springer	HOU	OF	60	43	50	46	68	47	45
48	Cole Hamels	PHI	SP	43	46	71	62	56	45	44
49	Ian Kinsler	DET	2B	57	51	44	43	55	65	54
50	Evan Longoria	TB	3B	47	40	56	67	52	56	60
51	Nolan Arenado	COL	3B	44	75	79	66	42	37	55
52	Billy Hamilton	CIN	OF	91	57	64	40	53	50	46
53	Yoenis Cespedes	DET	OF	70	47	52	39	82	53	58
54	Aroldis Chapman	CIN	SP	79	53	55	45	57	66	61
55	Todd Frazier	CIN	1B/3B	50	74	53	91	36	63	50
56	Prince Fielder	TEX	1B	92	60	58	64	49	58	42
57	David Ortiz	BOS	DH	52	52	66	89	69	48	48
58	Victor Martinez	DET	DH/C	29	45	59	80	104	39	76
59	Adam Wainwright	STL	SP	45	68	42	112	62	59	49
60	Craig Kimbrel	ATL	RP	74	56	65	54	61	67	62
61	Kyle Seager	SEA	3B	78	62	63	82	38	60	63
62	Joey Votto	CIN	1B	59	89	60	87	44	52	59
63	Nelson Cruz	SEA	OF	53	59	73	63	66	71	66
64	Brian Dozier	MIN	2B	32	67	62	78	51	88	82
65	Jonathan Lucroy	MIL	C	61	78	48	53	50	87	104
66	Julio Teheran	ATL	SP	63	58	91	75	64	68	71
67	Greg Holland	KC	RP	73	63	77	55	73	81	69
68	Jeff Samardzija	CHW	SP	55	61	68	71	76	77	88
69	Hunter Pence	HOU	OF	75	81	40	-	96	44	37
70	Alex Cobb	TB	SP	89	55	87	61	67	72	73
71	Dee Gordon	MIA	2B	72	94	70	57	70	80	67
72	Jason Kipnis	CLE	2B	86	65	57	56	75	79	93
73	Matt Harvey	NYM	SP	48	76	76	81	103	62	74
74	Matt Holliday	STL	OF	58	84	82	95	87	61	64
75	Jason Heyward	STL	OF	102	79	85	69	46	76	75
76	Evan Gattis	HOU	C	46	102	83	44	84	94	106
77	Kole Calhoun	LAA	OF	-	64	75	65	80	69	86
78	Christian Yelich	MIA	OF	88	72	92	58	92	86	79
79	Carlos Santana	CLE	1B/3B	56	77	84	-	60	103	65
80	Jay Bruce	CIN	OF	110	87	88	70	65	75	84
81	James Shields	SD	SP	80	70	74	86	78	109	83
82	David Wright	NYM	3B	82	-	69	79	74	92	80
83	Devin Mesoraco	CIN	C	62	97	78	118	63	95	95
84	Chris Davis	BAL	1B/3B	105	71	45	108	79	89	111
85	Sonny Gray	OAK	SP	81	66	98	105	71	106	85
86	Starlin Castro	CHC	SS	-	83	67	50	59	112	-
87	Jake Arrieta	CHC	SP	64	99	-	73	106	78	89
88	Tyson Ross	SD	SP	83	85	112	72	-	74	102
89	Dustin Pedroia	BOS	2B	120	80	89	90	93	99	87
90	David Robertson	CHW	RP	104	101	81	84	95	105	91
91	Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA	SP	90	112	109	68	-	85	77
92	Chris Carter	HOU	1B	119	69	86	-	81	90	96
93	Gerrit Cole	PIT	SP	96	73	106	115	101	83	94
94	Alex Gordon	KC	OF	87	91	80	97		120	72
95	Alexei Ramirez	CHW	SS	-	93	72	94	94	113	105
96	Kolten Wong	STL	2B	100	88	99	96	115	98	103
97	Gio Gonzalez	WAS	SP	117	82	96	83	121	104	97
98	Alex Wood	ATL	SP	68	123	103	103	-	97	92
99	Mookie Betts	BOS	OF	116	100	-	-	97	73	81
100	Dellin Betances	NYY	RP	103	118	-	104	91	82	100
101	Charlie Blackmon	COL	OF	-	-	110	102	-	70	70
102	Jacob deGrom	NYM	SP	84	92	124	111	-	84	112
103	Matt Carpenter	STL	3B	77	90	90	-	112	-	113
104	J.D. Martinez	DET	OF	71	-	-	85	116	114	101
105	Yan Gomes	CLE	C	93	-	102	88	83	-	122
106	Jorge Soler	CHC	OF	98	-	-	-	-	64	78
107	Pablo Sandoval	BOS	3B	-	111	107	-	89	102	90
108	Mark Melancon	PIT	RP	-	86	114	106	113	110	98
109	Carlos Carrasco	CLE	SP	69	96	-	114	-	108	124
110	Marcell Ozuna	MIA	OF	-	98	95	-	90	115	117
111	Kenley Jansen	LAD	RP	-	103	-	-	-	96	68
112	Jayson Werth	WAS	OF	109	-	118	-	88	91	115
113	Salvador Perez	KC	C	97	119	94	107	107
114	Brett Gardner	NYY	OF	-	114	104	120	124	93	99
115	Manny Machado	BAL	3B	99	106	108		102	116	123
116	Daniel Murphy	NYM	2B	-	124	93	77	-	-	118
117	Garrett Richards	LAA	SP	107	105	-	93	-	107	-
118	Josh Harrison	PIT	2B/3B/OF	85	-	115	-	86	-	-
119	Ryan Zimmerman	WAS	3B/OF	101	121	120	113	99	111	-
120	Elvis Andrus	TEX	SS	-	113	116	100	85	-	-
121	Masahiro Tanaka	NYY	SP	113	116	117	76	-	-	119
122	Trevor Rosenthal	STL	RP	-	95	111	121	114	122	108
123	Mark Trumbo	ARI	1B/OF	112	107	97	-	110	125	121
124	Brian McCann	NYY	C	-	-	-	59	109	-	-
125	Hyun-Jin Ryu	LAD	SP	95	108	123	98	-	-	-
126	Eric Hosmer	KC	1B	-	-	101	-	77	-	-
127	Leonys Martin	TEX	OF	-	104	-	74	-	-	-
128	Melky Cabrera	CHW	OF	76	-	-	109	-	-	-
129	Shin-Soo Choo	TEX	OF	-	-	-	92	-	119	120
130	Neil Walker	PIT	2B	121	-	100	119	118	-	-
131	Koji Uehara	BOS	RP	-	109		110	-	-	116
132	Kris Bryant	CHC	3B	108	-	-	-	-	101	-
133	Yadier Molina	STL	C	125	-	105	-	105	-	-
134	Phil Hughes	MIN	SP	94	-	-	-	-	117	-
135	Cliff Lee	PHI	SP	-	-	119	-	117	123	110
136	Lucas Duda	NYM	1B	111	-	-	-	-	-	107
137	Cody Allen	CLE	RP	-	115	-	116	-	-	114
138	Alex Rios	KC	OF	-	-	-	-	98	-	-
139	Howie Kendrick	LAD	2B	-	-	-	99	-	-	-
140	Anibal Sanchez	DET	SP	-	-	-	-	122	121	109
141	Brandon Moss	CLE	1B/OF	-	-	-	-	-	100
142	Brandon Belt	SF	1B	-	-	-	-	100	-	-
143	Jean Segura	MIL	SS	-	-	-	101	-	-	-
144	Collin McHugh	HOU	SP	106	-	-	-	-	-	-
145	Jimmy Rollins	LAD	SS	-	-	113	123	123	-	-
146	Homer Bailey	CIN	SP	-	110	-	-	-	124	-
147	Doug Fister	WAS	SP	-	-	-	-	108	-	-
148	Rusney Castillo	BOS	OF	115	-	-	-	119	-	-
149	Ben Revere	PHI	OF	-	-	125	-	111	-	-
150	Matt Adams	STL	1B	-	117	121	-	-	-	-