2010 Dynasty Rankings: Top 25 Outfielders: A First Look
How is Manny Ramirez’ value affected for Dynasty League Owners? How about young starts like Matt Kemp, Justin Upton & Jacoby Ellsbury? Let’s take a look at our early outfield rankings:
- Ryan Braun - Milwaukee Brewers
- Matt Kemp - Los Angeles Dodgers
- Carl Crawford - Tampa Bay Rays
- Justin Upton - Arizona Diamondbacks
- Grady Sizemore - Cleveland Indians
- Jacoby Ellsbury - Boston Red Sox
- Carlos Beltran - New York Mets
- Jason Bay - Boston Red Sox
- Adam Lind - Toronto Blue Jays
- Matt Holliday - St. Louis Cardinals
- Manny Ramirez - Los Angeles Dodgers
- Andre Ethier - Los Angeles Dodgers
- Nick Markakis - Baltimore Orioles
- Carlos Lee - Houston Astros
- Josh Hamilton - Texas Rangers
- Jayson Werth - Philadelphia Phillies
- Carlos Granderson - Detroit Tigers
- Adam Dunn - Washington Nationals
- Carlos Quentin - Chicago White Sox
- Ichiro Suzuki - Seattle Mariners
- Nelson Cruz - Texas Rangers
- Ben Zobrist - Tampa Bay Rays
- Hunter Pence - Houston Astros
- Shin-Soo Choo - Cleveland Indians
- B.J. Upton - Tampa Bay Rays
Thoughts:
- You would think that Manny Ramirez’ value would drop fairly significantly between yearly and dynasty leagues, considering he’ll turn 38 in May. The guy, however, is one of the best hitters in the game and has shown no signs of slowing down. While he doesn’t have unlimited time left, he still should be highly regarded in all formats. He falls a few spots, but not many. I’m just not willing to forfeit this season because someone is going to be more productive in two or three years.
- I’ve never been the biggest fan of Shin-Soo Choo, but with 20/20 potential (he got there in 2009) and being significantly younger, he replaces Bobby Abreu on the list.
- It’s a tough choice between B.J. Upton and Shane Victorino, but Upton has tremendous upside, despite his power outage the past two seasons. He still has a ton of speed and the power will hopefully come back. He’s a risk I’d certainly take.
- Will Curtis Granderson turn things back around? Some people are saying he should be a platoon player, given his .183 average against lefties. I can’t just overlook his .259 number in 2008. If he were to get moved, as has been rumored, his value could be affected, so we’ll have to wait and see how the offseason progresses.
- Matt Kemp gets bumped up to the second spot, something that very easily could follow suit for yearly league owners. He has 26 HR and 34 SB last season and has the potential to go 30/30 before too long.
- Ellsbury or Beltran? Calling CitiField home is a disadvantage for Beltran, even if he were healthy. Ellsbury’s speed and youth gives him a slight edge, though those two could easily change spots in the coming weeks.
What are your thoughts on these rankings? Who should be higher? Who should be lower?
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I think Lind is too high, he needs to prove himself more before I consider him a top-10 option in keeper leagues. I’m not saying he isn’t worthy of being high in the rankings, I just think outside of the top-10 (11 or 12) is where he belongs for right now.
Yes… Holliday should be before Lind b/c i think Lind is SOLID but he doesn’t run. Holliday will steal you 10-20 bags. I think braun, kemp, J-upton and sizemore are your 4 best OF’ers. Crawford is going to burn people who pay for him next year…. AGAIN. He was always overrated, the one year he isn’t overrated and goes where he probably should have for the 3 previous years he breaks out, now overrated again.
I wouldn’t trust Beltran for a second to be healthy, and in that park…. NO THANKS, at #7, no way…. Holliday in St. Louis or BOSTON? YES PLEASE.
You have to take Werth and Cruz ahead of markakis… YOU HAVE TO.
Markakis use to be my boy, but i’m convinced he’s maybe one of the most overrated overdrafted of the OF’ers….
18HRS 6SB’s and a .293 average? WEAK
He’s truly a 20HR/20SB MAX .300 hitter…. not a bad line, but not great and Definitely not worth a 3rd to 4th round pick like he was going last year, and yes i know 3 years ago he went 23HR/18SB and hit .300 but that was a different team and we’ve seen him dip for two years now…. CHOO went 10 rounds later and put up better stats. Everyone listed below Markakis basically went after him in drafts and outperformed him, most by ALOT.
OVERRATED.
BJ UPTON needs to be higher on potential alone. He does have a brother in the league, they come from the same gene pool. Say he’s even just a 10HR/45SB guy? Thats better than some of those other OF’ers… with the potential he could go 20-30HR’s and 45SB’s if it all clicks…. its all about the UPSIDE. You can’t hate that RAYS offense either? WOW, youth, speed, power, POTENTIAL…..
thats all for now…. HA
this time next year, justin upton is #1
Where’s Andrew McCutchen? If this is a dynasty list, I’d have him infront of alot of these guys, (Werth, Cruz, Quentin, Manny, Carlos Lee, and Beltran).
The absence of mccutchen and adam jones on tthis list is disturbing me. I take them easily over most guys on this list in a dynasty draft. Maybe I’m crazy.
cdog, this was an extremely preliminary list posted in November. I’m currently updating all of the Dynasty League rankings, so keep checking back. While it’s not finalized, both should be represented this next time around.