Rest of Season Outfield Rankings
I re-rank my top outfielders for the second half of the 2024 fantasy baseball season.
Other Positions
Outfield is an absolute beast, so we’re going to do this one a little bit differently. I am going to do this by tiers only and not the whole ranking process. There are just so many outfielders to go through, and I can’t afford to spend a full day on this to do it completely right.
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Tier One
Aaron Judge
Juan Soto
We have two Yankees alone at the top. Silly numbers for Judge with 34 homers and 85 RBI already, and Soto has been at his best as well with a .426 OBP, 75 runs, 66 RBI, and 23 homers.
Tier Two
Yordan Alvarez
Fernando Tatis Jr.
Kyle Tucker
Christian Yelich
Luis Robert Jr.
Julio Rodriguez
Jarren Duran
Maybe Yordan Alvarez should be in tier one, but he is significantly behind those two big dogs in counting stats with 56 runs and 52 RBI. He’s great, of course, but just a step behind the big two.
It’s a little surprising to see Fernando Tatis Jr. with just an .815 OPS, 14 homers, and eight steals. He has not been the elite fantasy player we thought he would be after that 2021 season. He has just a .788 OPS and a .265 batting average since 2022. You could almost rank him lower than this, but I’ll leave him there for the upside.
Kyle Tucker would be tier one if he were healthy, but it looks like he’ll miss a couple more weeks at least. That hurts big time this late in the season.
I could even admit to some Christian Yelich disrespect here. He’s played like a stud this year with 11 homers, 21 steals, and a huge .326 batting average to go with 44 runs and 41 RBI. I just don’t see him bursting with power upside, and we know the slumps he can go through (at least in terms of providing great fantasy production), so he gets dropped down a tier.
I expect better things for Julio Rodriguez in the second half, but man he’s only homered ten times this year. That’s wild. The OBP being at .318 has kept his steals totals down a bit as well (18), he just hasn’t performed like a fantasy stud this year. Not saying he can’t do it in the second half, but for now we have to peg him down a bit.
What an impressive year for Jarren Duran. He’s hitting .284 with 10 homers, 62 runs, and 22 steals. That’s pretty much across-the-board production.
Tier Three
Corbin Carroll
Brandon Nimmo
Bryan Reynolds
Riley Greene
Spencer Steer
We’re missing something with each of these guys now. Corbin Carroll showed us basically no power until last Saturday (five homers in the first half). That low of a homer total really hurts a fantasy team in any league type, so this tier-three ranking assumes he’ll hit homers at a much higher rate in the second half, which could prove to be a false assumption!
Brandon Nimmo and Bryan Reynolds are just really, really solid hitter. Neither guy is a 35-homer or 25-steal type, but the batting average is seemingly always there and they contribute across the board.
Riley Greene has an .866 OPS this year with 17 homers in 407 PAs. That’s a fantastic 24 PA/HR, and he’s also hitting .271 thanks to his lowered strikeout rate (25%) and hard-hit rate. He’s great, but we can’t expect more than a few more steals this year, and the Tigers lineup is not good around him.
Spencer Steer surprised me with a 15-homer, 14-steal, 50-run, 60-RBI first half. That’s a really good fantasy bat. I was probably way too low on him on the other position re-ranks.
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