2025 MLB Team Previews
An explanation and glossary of my 2025 MLB team previews
Team Links
Links to the individual team previews will appear here as I publish them.
Explanation
I have found the best, most informative, and most enjoyable way to build out my fantasy baseball rankings is one player at a time. For the past three seasons, I have done an in-depth team preview for all 30 MLB clubs, going player-by-player through all fantasy-relevant names. I look deep into each player and insert them into my rankings where I believe they should go.
From mid-November through the month of February, I will slowly publish all 30 team previews. After I preview a player, I will show a screenshot of where I have put them into my ranks.
I go in reverse order of last year’s standings. That is because the bad teams tend to change their roster less during the winter, so I want to write up the competitive teams later in the offseason.
That means that I begin this year with the White Sox. The hitter ranks process began like this:
Rankings #1
Luis Robert
I looked at Robert first, so he became my #1 player ranked. Then I looked at Andrew Vaughn:
Rankings #2
Luis Robert
Andrew Vaughn
And then I looked at the rest of the hitters on the White Sox, who I thought might be worthy of a draft pick in fantasy leagues (and I go pretty deep with it), so that populates 5-10 hitters per team.
Rankings After One Team
Luis Robert
Andrew Vaughn
Miguel Vargas
Andrew Benintendi
And then I move on to the next team. This year, that was the Rockies. So I looked at Brenton Doyle, and then decided where to put him. In this case, I liked him more than Luis Robert:
Rankings #4
Brenton Doyle
Luis Robert
Miguel Vargas
Andrew Benintendi
I don’t think I needed to go through all of that to make you understand what I’m doing here, but now you definitely get it.
The advantage of this system is that it completely eliminates the anchoring bias. If I started with early ADP, or someone else’s ranks, or last year’s player rater, each player gets anchored to that starting place, and I could very well be hesitant to move them too far away from it, even if my analysis on them suggested I should.
I hope you all enjoy it. Most of each team preview will be behind the paywall. So, you will have to become a paid subscriber for $9/month or $80/year to get the full thing.
If you subscribe and you take the team to read each team, I am confident in saying you will have a grasp on the player pool that few others have. And I think you will enjoy seeing the list develop.