2017 Fantasy Baseball Big Board Rankings

Author:
Mark Ross
Publish date:
Feb 28, 2017

Spring training is in full bloom in Florida and Arizona, the World Baseball Classic is just around the corner and if you look hard enough you can see the start of another fantasy baseball season on the horizon. In fact, some leagues have probably already started their drafts.

So which player should you spend your first-round pick on? While some of the candidates have to be obvious – starting with reigning AL and NL MVPs Mike Trout and Kris Bryant – once you get past the first six guys, the choices may not be as clear-cut. There’s still plenty of star power to be had at different positions, but which All-Star or rising superstar would be a better pick for your fantasy team?

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That’s where Athlon Sports’ Fantasy Baseball Big Board comes into play. We have culled rankings from trusted and respected sites such as CBSSports.com(Scott White), ESPN.com(Eric Karabell), FoxSports.com(John Halpin), MLB.com, and Yahoo!, combined and averaged them to produce these consensus rankings.

Obviously these will change since the regular season is a month away, but when you are on the clock and can’t decide whether to go with a position player or pitcher, or maybe going back and forth between two outfielders, you can use these to get a sense of what the experts think. If anything, this will give you more time to think about what you are going to name your team.

Also, don’t forget about Athlon Sports’ 2017 Baseball Preview magazine, which contains plenty of fantasy content in addition to other great features, team previews, statistics and more.

2017 Fantasy Baseball Big Board

Note: Players that tied are listed in alphabetical order.


Rank	Player	Team	POS	CBS	ESPN	FOX	MLB	Y!
1	Mike Trout	LAA	OF	1	1	1	1	1
2	Mookie Betts	BOS	OF	2	2	3	2	2
3	Jose Altuve	HOU	2B	3	3	2	3	7
4t	Nolan Arenado	COL	3B	4	6	5	5	5
4t	Kris Bryant	CHC	1B/3B/OF	6	5	6	4	4
4t	Paul Goldschmidt	ARI	1B	5	4	4	6	6
7t	Josh Donaldson	TOR	3B	7	8	8	9	10
7t	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	SP	11	14	7	7	3
7t	Manny Machado	BAL	3B/SS	8	7	9	10	8
10	Bryce Harper	WAS	OF	10	15	12	8	9
11	Anthony Rizzo	CHC	1B	9	12	10	15	11
12	Charlie Blackmon	COL	OF	13	10	14	13	12
13	Miguel Cabrera	DET	1B	14	9	11	18	13
14	Max Scherzer	WAS	SP	16	27	13	11	14
15	Corey Seager	LAD	SS	12	19	17	19	16
16	Trea Turner	WAS	2B/OF	20	16	25	12	15
17	Madison Bumgarner	SF	SP	19	21	20	14	18
18	Carlos Correa	HOU	SS	15	22	21	23	20
19	Joey Votto	CIN	1B	17	13	28	26	19
20	Chris Sale	BOS	SP	22	28	23	16	23
21	Noah Syndergaard	NYM	SP	28	34	15	21	17
22	Robinson Cano	SEA	2B	25	22	16	29	26
23	Corey Kluber	CLE	SP	23	25	24	20	29
24	Edwin Encarnacion	CLE	1B	18	23	18	43	28
25	Francisco Lindor	CLE	SS	32	18	35	24	25
26	Starling Marte	PIT	OF	66	17	19	17	21
27	Freddie Freeman	ATL	1B	37	20	26	27	31
28	George Springer	HOU	OF	30	33	32	25	27
29	Xander Bogaerts	BOS	SS	31	30	30	35	22
30	Nelson Cruz	SEA	OF	41	26	27	33	30
31	Ryan Braun	MIL	OF	40	24	22	53	24
32	Brian Dozier	MIN	2B	27	39	39	37	33
33	Jon Lester	CHC	SP	26	43	40	28	40
34	Daniel Murphy	WAS	1B/2B	21	31	58	31	39
35	Justin Verlander	DET	SP	24	35	57	22	53
36	A.J. Pollock	ARI	OF	38	46	31	48	32
37	Jake Arrieta	CHC	SP	33	47	42	36	38
38	J.D. Martinez	DET	OF	43	40	33	45	37
39	Jonathan Villar	MIL	2B/3B/SS	51	29	29	42	49
40	Johnny Cueto	SF	SP	36	48	45	40	46
41	Trevor Story	COL	SS	62	32	43	39	41
42	Yu Darvish	TEX	SP	39	62	46	41	34
43	David Price	BOS	SP	34	59	38	44	50
44	Carlos Gonzalez	COL	OF	69	36	34	65	35
45	Giancarlo Stanton	MIA	OF	45	54	37	73	36
46	Ian Desmond	COL	OF	71	38	47	47	44
47	Rougned Odor	TEX	2B	52	74	49	30	43
48	Yoenis Cespedes	NYM	OF	65	53	50	32	51
49	Buster Posey	SF	C/1B	35	85	56	34	55
50	Kyle Seager	SEA	3B	48	41	48	84	45
51	Jose Abreu	CWS	1B	63	44	36	85	42
52	Stephen Strasburg	WAS	SP	44	84	51	49	48
53	Adrian Beltre	TEX	3B	55	49	61	75	47
54	Chris Archer	TB	SP	49	60	66	50	64
55	Wil Myers	SD	1B/OF	53	37	44	99	59
56	Christian Yelich	MIA	OF	95	45	52	52	52
57	Carlos Carrasco	CLE	SP	47	70	59	67	57
58	Andrew McCutchen	PIT	OF	57	58	64	74	58
59t	Chris Davis	BAL	1B	73	64	55	59	61
59t	Jacob deGrom	NYM	SP	42	72	60	70	68
59t	Gregory Polanco	PIT	OF	94	50	53	61	54
62	Jean Segura	SEA	2B	46	55	72	58	85
63	Matt Carpenter	STL	1B/2B/3B	29	63	76	77	77
64	Ian Kinsler	DET	2B	76	51	69	71	69
65	Gary Sanchez	NYY	C	58	120	65	46	62
66	Kyle Hendricks	CHC	SP	60	86	85	57	66
67	Aroldis Chapman	NYY	RP	83	93	67	51	65
68	Todd Frazier	CWS	1B/3B	97	57	92	54	67
69	Kenley Jansen	LAD	RP	79	91	83	38	78
70t	Dee Gordon	MIA	2B	107	78	62	55	71
70t	Justin Upton	DET	OF	110	56	68	79	60
72	Jason Kipnis	CLE	2B	90	61	75	68	83
73	Mark Trumbo	BAL	OF	74	75	63	83	88
74	Carlos Martinez	STL	SP	85	69	70	82	79
75	DJ LeMahieu	COL	2B	88	65	77	78	90
76t	Zach Britton	BAL	RP	84	92	80	60	84
76t	Hanley Ramirez	BOS	1B	80	81	96	80	63
78	Jonathan Lucroy	TEX	C/1B	56	119	89	56	82
79	Evan Longoria	TB	3B	98	52	71	108	76
80t	Rick Porcello	BOS	SP	59	71	99	81	99
80t	Masahiro Tanaka	NYY	SP	82	82	78	93	74
82t	Alex Bregman	HOU	3B	54	42	137	92	91
82t	Adam Jones	BAL	OF	72	79	104	86	75
82t	Anthony Rendon	WAS	3B	105	80	54	96	81
85	Matt Kemp	ATL	OF	101	103	81	66	72
86	Cole Hamels	TEX	SP	50	118	84	94	89
87	Jose Bautista	TOR	OF	61	68	91	116	100
88	Billy Hamilton	CIN	OF	143	113	41	63	87
89	Jose Quintana	CWS	SP	75	83	87	110	93
90	Khris Davis	OAK	OF	103	73	98	106	73
91	Zack Greinke	ARI	SP	64	126	86	91	92
92	Jackie Bradley Jr.	BOS	OF	87	76	74	133	104
93	Eric Hosmer	KC	1B	128	66	73	129	80
94	Carlos Santana	CLE	1B	78	77	79	138	106
95	David Dahl	COL	OF	93	98	105	113	70
96	Seung Hwan Oh	STL	RP	125	94	106	62	97
97	Gerrit Cole	PIT	SP	91	104	90	115	86
98	Julio Teheran	ATL	SP	81	116	100	107	96
99	Craig Kimbrel	BOS	RP	123	96	95	87	108
100t	Adam Eaton	WAS	OF	147	102	82	90	101
100t	Roberto Osuna	TOR	RP	132	111	103	69	107
102t	Edwin Diaz	SEA	RP	131	114	109	72	98
102t	Mark Melancon	SF	RP	121	95	102	64	142
102t	Stephen Piscotty	STL	OF	109	67	119	100	129
105	Danny Duffy	KC	SP/RP	68	156	112	102	105
106	Lorenzo Cain	KC	OF	122	88	124	105	111
107	Justin Turner	LAD	3B	102	87	159	95	112
108	Albert Pujols	LAA	1B	127	97	128	114	94
109	Dustin Pedroia	BOS	2B	89	100	116	146	110
110	Rich Hill	LAD	SP	99	134	125	103	114
111	Wade Davis	CHC	RP	124	115	107	89	144
112	Ken Giles	HOU	RP	139	112	111	76	155
113	Kyle Schwarber	CHC	C/OF	113	124	110	194	56
114	Miguel Sano	MIN	3B/OF	129	89	108	144	145
115	Danny Salazar	CLE	SP	120	169	94	119	116
116	Odubel Herrera	PHI	OF	207	108	88	121	102
117	Dallas Keuchel	HOU	SP	67	210	144	101	126
118	Adrian Gonzalez	LAD	1B	175	99	97	185	95
119	Addison Russell	CHC	SS	111	105	132	174	130
120	Michael Fulmer	DET	SP	100	125	171	148	113
121t	Willson Contreras	CHC	C/OF	114	135	147	150	115
121t	Kenta Maeda	LAD	SP	151	165	117	125	103
123	Kelvin Herrera	KC	RP	138	145	120	97	177
124	Matt Harvey	NYM	SP	77	234	123	127	120
125	Maikel Franco	PHI	3B	130	109	170	152	123