Rest of Season First Base Rankings
I re-rank my top first basemen for the second half of the 2024 fantasy baseball season.
Other Positions
Tier One
Bryce Harper
Freddie Freeman
Bryce Harper has actually been the most valuable first baseman in the league (depending on how you calculate it, I guess). Given that, and the fact that heh is Bryce Harper, it’s pretty easy to make him the #1 guy.
Freddie Freeman has not been his normal utterly dominant self with just 13 homers this year, and he lines up at #4 at the position on my player rater. But we want to consider much more than just three months of games, so I am separating these two proven studs from the rest of the pack.
Tier Two
Matt Olson
Christian Walker
Pete Alonso
Josh Naylor
Matt Olson was firmly in tier one coming into this year, but fails to even crack the top ten on my player rater at the current moment. He has just 13 homers and a .237 batting average to go with the normal zero steals. Not good. But we must weigh the .897 OPS and 88 homers he hit for the Braves from 2022-2023 quite heavily still. Two full seasons means a lot more than three months. I would expect Olson to hit a whole bunch of homers in the second half and raise that batting average up quite a bit along the way.
Maybe I’m undervaluing Christian Walker here a bit, although #4 is a pretty aggressive ranking. He’s been incredible for three seasons now with a .253/.332/.490 slash line and 91 homers. He’s already hit 22 with an .839 OPS this year, and he’ll throw in a steal every month.
Pete Alonso has brought the batting average back up after that very strange 2023 season. He’s hitting .240 this year while on another easy 30+homer pace. It’s not the most impressive season of his career thus far, but we know who the Polar Bear is, I can’t keep it out of my top five.
Josh Naylor has played better than this, but I’m going to penalize him a little bit for his lack of a track record prior to this year.
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