Fantasy Baseball 2022 Draft Rankings

Welcome back friends for our 11th season here at BretskyBall. It’s been a wild ride and while the site doesn’t get quite as much love as it used to, we’re cooking up something special for you this spring. These are the best fantasy baseball redraft rankings that we’ve ever put together. How do I know? When you’ve made the BEST fantasy baseball redraft rankings around, you just know they are the best.

We’ve been looking forward to the 2022 fantasy baseball season in an interesting way as this has almost been the love/hate offseason. With a labor agreement finally in place and most of my favorite athletes in the BEST SHAPE OF HIS LIFE, it’s time to get serious.

Spring Time is a Season for Fantasy Baseball Rankings

After a long and cold winter we’ve sprung ahead and with the spring comes baseball. There is perhaps nothing better from taking a break compiling the best fantasy baseball rankings to take a stroll outside amongst re-awakening nature. The birds and squirrels are chirping and chattering while the cherry blossoms pop all around.

During the shortest days of the year it’s easy to question why, why, WHYYY did we make our life in a cold weather city, but every single time that spring rolls around, all those feelings are forgotten. The rebirth of nature is something you can’t enjoy just anywhere. It is both an invigorating and inspiring experience that certainly rewards the observant.

I’m sure we could stay here all day admiring the wonder that is spring, but fake baseball season is fast approaching so maybe we should just keep doing our best to focus on why we are all here: fantasy baseball rankings.

A Tradition Like No Other

Fantasy baseball rankings are serious business around here and have been in my family for generations. As a young boy I recall watching my grandfather assemble his fantasy baseball rankings each and every spring, by hand of course. In those days rankings didn’t come with all the frills of park factors or advanced stats: you had a pencil, some paper and a newspaper full of tables and box scores to churn out a news set of ranks each year.

As the season approached, the whole family would get together and sit down at the draft table to select their players all with their own hand made rankings sheets. Times were simpler than, and the counting stats were everything.

Making the Best Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Position by Position

Over the years the ranking process has evolved a bunch and this year is no different than others. This year, we took a deep dive into some of the most popular projection systems to create value tiers by position (shout out to Ariel Cohen’s ATC projections and Derek Carty’s THE BAT X, which have emerged as my favorites and easily viewed over at fangraphs). As such the individual positons rankings may be a bit more useful when drafting your fantasy baseball team than looking at the overall 300. Still, we took some time to comb through and shuffle the positions together in a loosely ordered list.

The tiered lists by position can also help to illuminate certain narratives at each position while helping you shape the your draft strategy and roster construction. A quick look around the diamond…

• Catcher: It’s a small top tier and I wont be drafting them.. really dunno what to do probably just draft Mitch Garver late.
• First Base: Given the lack of speed first base should be a power focused position. There is pretty much a solid bat at every price point and no need to reach here.
• Second Base: While I don’t mind locking up a top-tier guy here, there are a ton of options to like in the back end of the top 100 in ADP.
• Third Base: Similar to second base at the top but most likely discount shopping with one of Bregman, Bryant, Rendon, or Turner.
• Shortstop: Every good fantasy baseball team needs a shortstop.
• Outfield: The most diverse group of talent, we like to dip into the outfield pool early and ofter, especially in league where you start five.
• Starting Pitcher: League format (and even platform) is really going to drive where the top starters sit in the overall rankings and since these are tailored towards a 5×5 roto league, I tend to push up offense. That said, you probably want at least one top-20 arm regardless of format (and several in any points league).
• Relief Pitcher: I thought things get easier to navigate after the lockout…. it does not feel that way. Good luck.

Check out all of our positional tiered rankings in detail C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | SP |RP

More Fantasy Baseball Rankings and Resources You Should Consider

Of course, before we get into our own list I want to shout out a couple of other resources that I use to formulate my player rankings and draft strategy that will also keep you a whole lot more updated that I will be able throughout the season.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on the web side of things to help Nick Pollack make Pitcher List the best baseball site on the internet. It’s a beautiful site and it’s been really fun to help build. The new player pages are so so cool and the site’s insane river of content can keep you busy. It would be tough not to acknowledge that spending so much time building, testing and looking at site some of the very good content has rubbed off on my own thoughts. So I would very much encourage you all to check out Nick’s latest version of The List, which includes his top-100 rankings and a whole lot of analysis beyond the worthless drivel that I’ve put you through.

For everything bullpen, I’m constantly turning to Greg Jewett’s twitter feed and closer chart. He’s also got plenty more content on Reliever Recon. In the podcast world, The Athletic’s Under the Radar remains one of my favorites along with the Rotowire Prospect Podcast for those playing in deeper leagues.

We’re Almost There Just Few More Words for the SEO Optimizer to Turn Green before its time for… THE BEST BASEBALL RANKINGS!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this breakdown of our process for putting together baseball rankings for drafting a fantasy teams, it’s really been fun to get back on the horse and hammer out a little bit of content. It does occur to me that I probably would have been better suited making some best ball rankings if I really want to call them the best baseball rankings, but we’re into this bit far too deep it’s probably time to wrap it up. Thanks for sticking with us through the years!

The Best 2022 Fantasy Baseball Draft Rankings – Top 300(ish)