MLB Seasonal Articles
Fantasy Baseball Projection Models in 2025
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2025: MLB Speed Grades
This article isn’t about how many stolen bases a player had in 2024 or how many they will swipe in ’25. This article also isn’t about predicting how you should be drafting fast players in 2025. This article is about who has the best speed in the game. We aren’t concerned with defensive position. We Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: MLB Power Grades
We’re talking about pure, unadulterated power here. This article/ranking setup isn’t about how many homeruns a player will hit in 2024. This article isn’t about predicting how you should draft players in 2024. This article IS about who has the best power stroke in the game. Chicks dig the long ball. We learned that years Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: MLB Top-10 Lists
People love rankings and top-10 lists. Who is the best at this or that? Who screwed up the worst at this or that? Who is the best of all-time? You know what we mean. However, unlike the other websites that make you click on page, after page, after page to find out the answers, we’re Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: MLB Dependability Grades
This article isn’t about how many base hits a guy will produce, nor is it about how many home runs a player will hit or about how many strikeouts a pitcher will produce. The piece isn’t going to try and predict the at-bat or innings pitched totals of the players either. So, what the heck Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: On-Base Percentage Rankings
Even though the calendar has flipped to 2025, the overwhelming majority of fantasy baseball leagues still use batting average as one of the main categories for hitters (at least in points leagues we have positive points for walks – and some even add a point for a HBP as well). If you’re ready to take Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB Rankings Per Category: Pitchers
In our quest to provide you the most relevant tools to help you to gain an edge on your competition, we’ve created multiple personalized rankings sets in 2025. Let’s quickly detail what those areas are. First off, we have our rankings page where you can find Mixed, AL/NL Only Rankings and Auction Values. Second, those rankings pages Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB Rankings Per Category: Hitters
In our quest to provide you the most relevant tools to help you to gain an edge on your competition, we’ve created multiple personalized rankings sets in 2025. Let’s quickly detail what those areas are. First off, we have our rankings page where you can find Mixed, AL/NL Only Rankings and Auction Values. Second, those rankings pages Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB Dynasty League Rankings
We have all kinds of rankings at Fantasy Guru for the 2025 MLB season, but what if you are looking a bit further down the road than just 2025, well, we’ve got you covered there too. In what follows, we will list the top-200 hitters and top-200 pitchers, but before we get to those dynasty Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
How to Analyze a Pitcher – Year 8
This is the 8th year of this piece dissecting how to analyze pitchers in fantasy baseball. This article is, if you will, the secret sauce you should be using to breakdown the outlook of hurlers. Removing all the white noise, this piece will attempt to describe the framework that is needed to understand who a Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
How to Analyze a Hitter – Year 8
This is the 8th year of writing this how-to piece. Basically, I’m going to spend 5,000 plus words trying to lay out the blueprint to follow if you are interested in getting to the core of who a player is and what that might mean for their production in the coming season. Why am I Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Consistency Leads to Championships
If you play head-to-head fantasy baseball, and I know a lot of you do – like a lot, you know how important it is to try and identify players who are likely to produce week-after-week. In roto leagues, we focus less directly on the week-to-week thing because we are more consumed with six months versus Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Review: The Top-50 Rookies for 2024
Before we move forward, we always should look back. Predicting rookie success is always a dicey proposition, and that roller coaster ride is part of the every year experience in fantasy baseball. In this piece we will do just that focusing on the youngsters that were in our preseason top-50 for rookie eligible players in Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: What is Tiering & Why Does it Matter?
Tiering is a fairly standard procedure in fantasy sports, or at least it should be. However, I speak to a lot of folks, at least digitally, and it appears that not enough folks out there are actually employing the strategy. Here’s a quick refresher on what it is and why you should be employing tiering Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2024 Review: What Went Right?
This is the article where Ray Flowers, the know it all, gets to say ‘I told you so.’ Don’t worry though, there’s another article where he also admits all the mistakes he made in 2024. Hopefully the pluses outweigh the negatives. *Bold/Italics are the direct quotes from last year’s preseason Draft Guide. Each year I Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2024 Review: What Went Wrong?
Many folks think Ray never admits when he is wrong, but they are, in fact, wrong. Every year, Ray looks back at the just completed season to see where he was right and wrong. This is the article where he talks about his mistakes/misses from the previous season. *Bold/Italics are the direct quotes from last Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The 2024 Season in Review
What follows will be a review of the top-50 pitchers on draft day based on NFBC ADP in the month of March of 2024 (there were 687 drafts in the ADP sample). *Player Rankings are from the Razzball Player Rater. A review of the top-50 batters in 2024. RankFinishPlayerComment1286 Ronald Acuna Jr.The universal #1 only played Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
What Is Wrong With Fantasy Baseball in 2025?
In what has become an evergreen piece here at FantasyGuru, Ray Flowers shares his thoughts on where the game of fantasy baseball currently resides in the fantasy sports space. Is everything OK with game of fantasy baseball? Clearly there are issues to address given the title of this piece and what appears to be the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025: Why Overall Rankings Are Useless
I hear the following question every preseason and have for years. It goes something like this. Where is the overall rankings list, Ray? I’ve looked on the home page, the rankings section, under the rock in the yard and even under my dog who is sleeping in his bed in the corner of my office, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB Positional Qualifications
Each year players lose, and pick up, new positions defensively. With the plethora of injuries in the game of baseball, having those guys you can slide around a lineup is pretty damn valuable. This piece will talk about which players qualify at which spots, which guys qualify at more than one spot, and what your Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB Pitching Qualifications
I don’t play in leagues that use a specific designation for pitchers each week in fantasy baseball. In my leagues the are just generic pitching slots. However, I know some of you are in leagues that use “starting pitchers” and relief pitcher. This little article will not focus on the individual sites and how they Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 MLB SABERMETRIC PRIMER
SABERMETRICS DEFINED Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence focusing specifically on statistical information. The term itself is derived from the acronym SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), which comes from the group of baseball historians who were the originators of most of these “fancy math” equations (the term was coined by the most Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
My Life in Baseball
I’ve been involved with the sport of baseball since the day I was born and my grandfather brought me an SF Giants cap to the hospital. I progressed from baseball cards, to playing the game, to umping, to coaching, to writing about and now talking as well. I’m going to include a brief rundown of Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
The All-Time Best Baseball Video Games & Players
I’ve been trying to keep people engaged the last couple of weeks. Don’t know if I’m having success or not, but I’m trying. Over the weekend I tweeted out (@TheRayFlowers) a bunch of screenshots of my playing Atari 2600 and Nintendo sports games, and they got tons of interaction (here is the list of what…