by The Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Crew puts their very first false version of the 2025 season together. See who Andy Behrens, Scott Pianowski, Fred Zinkie and Dalton del Don have chosen.
Choose No. 1: Shohei Ohtani, Util, Los Angeles Dodgers
Hey, don’t you know that fantasy experts warn you not to bind your util spot with an early round pick? Uh … oops! Ohtani clearly has the highest ceiling in the game, which overwrites any positional problems. – Andy Behrens
Choose No. 2: Bobby Witt Jr., SS, Kansas City Royals
Witt is a 24-year-old in a premium position that ended among the category leaders in every stat we care about last season. He is actually so bad to go 30/30/.300 as everyone in the player pool. – Behrens
Choose No. 3: Aaron Judge, or, New York Yankees
Judge just delivered 58 homers and it wasn’t even his career in one season. He has strength of arms quality and he lives on the basis when he does not touch bombs (.406 career OBP). – Behrens
Choose No. 4: Gunnar Henderson, SS, Baltimore Orioles
Henderson was a five category Overlord in his age-2-season and his baseball Savant page is full of delicious sliding controllers who were pushed to the right. He is already a perfect player and a perfect fantasy choice. – Scott Pianowski
Choose No. 5: Elly de la Cruz, SS, Cincinnati Reds
Elly got better in everything last year. More walks, fewer strikeouts, better sloping line. He led the Majors in both steels and attempts, so he is great on the bases. De la Cruz starts his age-2-season and he plays in a glorious Slagman’s park. Shoot on the moon, gamers. – Pianowski
Choose No. 6: José Ramírez, 3B, Cleveland Guardians
A monster with five categories in a notorious thin position sounds nice to me as the first round. Ramirez will close the running sooner or later, but that was not a problem in his age-31 season. – Pianowski
Choose No. 7: Kyle Tucker, or, Chicago Cubs
Tucker has already shown 30-Steal speed and his power skills took a remarkable step ahead last year. On the way to a contract year, Tucker has sufficient advantage to be considered in Pick 4. – Fred Zinkie
Choose No. 8: Mookie Betts, 2B/or, Los Angeles Dodgers
A table tooth with an elite battle eye on the best team of Baseball, Betts is a virtual lock to be one of the competition leaders in R+RBI. He will have to recover from a Power DIP 2024 to remain a top 10 player. – Zinkie
Choose No. 9: Corbin Carroll, or, Arizona Diamondbacks
The inconsistent Carroll is perhaps the risky choice of round 1, but he recovered his power impact in the second half of 2024 and is already one of the best baseagers in baseball. – Zinkie
Choose No. 10: Juan Soto, or, New York Mets
Soto gets an important downgrade in home parks with the move through New York, but he actually produced more outside the Yankee Stadium last season. He is just one of the best bouncers of baseball. – Dalton del Don
Choose No. 11: Julio Rodríguez, van, Seattle Mariners
Injuries have contributed to the disappointing 2024 of Rodriguez, but the eternal slow start and playing in the Best Werperpark in MLB are worries. Yet JRod is only one season from 30/30 as a 22-year-old, so there is a lot of benefits left. – Del Don
Choose No. 12: Fernando Tatís Jr., van, San Diego Padres
The power of Tatis Jr. Is no longer the same since the shoulder operation, but it started to return during his last two months of a 2024 plagued by injuries. Tatis Jr. was just 26 years old. – Del Don
