Patreon Post: June Top 456 Dynasty Baseball Rankings

It’s Dynasty Baseball Rankings Week over on the Patreon! As usual, I will go over 400 deep with blurbs for just about everyone. May, April, and Off-Season Rankings are in parenthesis, in that order. Here is the June Top 456 Dynasty Baseball Rankings:

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1) (1) (1) (1) Shohei Ohtani LAA, RHP/DH, 28.11 – Still King

2) (2) (3) (3) Ronald Acuna Jr. ATL, OF, 25.6 – 94.9 MPH EV and 13.4% K% are both career highs. .459 xwOBA is 2nd to only Aaron Judge. And to top it all off he’s on pace for over 70 stolen bases. This might be the closest I’ve been to even considering moving Ohtani off that top spot.

3) (8) (24) (24) Corbin Carroll ARI, OF, 22.9 – 30.1 ft/sec sprint is the 4th fastest in the league behind Bobby Witt, Bubba Thompson, and Trea Turner, in that order. He combines the speed with a 20.5%/10.9% K%/BB% and a 90.3 MPH EV. He deserves this #3 ranking

4) (3) (2) (2) Julio Rodriguez SEA, OF, 22.5 – April just might not be his month. Started to heat up in May like last year, slashing .364/.375/.600 with 3 homers, 4 steals, and a 14/0 K/BB in his last 13 games. As long as he keeps crushing the ball (93.1 MPH) and is lightning fast (29.5 MPH), I’ll continue to overlook the mediocre plate approach

5) (7) (9) (7) Fernando Tatis Jr. SDP, SS/OF, 24.5 – All the worries that he would stop running due to the injuries have proven to be unfounded as he’s jacked 6 bags in 39 games. His 19.4% K% is a career best too for good measure

Shadow5) (3) (3) (6) Shohei Ohtani LAA, DH only/Weekly Leagues, 28.11

6) (9) (12) (16) Wander Franco TBR, SS, 22.3 – Remember when people worried about Franco’s future stolen base totals when he was a prospect? Well, he’s on pace for over 50 stolen bases. The new rules obviously help, but he was underestimated there no matter how you slice it

7) (6) (5) (4) Yordan Alvarez HOU, OF, 25.11 – 9 homers with a 1.011 OPS in his last 28 games. If you don’t care about steals, he could rank as high as 3rd overall

8) (11) (7) (5) Juan Soto SDP, OF, 24.7 – Slashing .315/.483/.593 with 6 homers, 5 steals, and a 27/34 K/BB in his last 33 games. I feel like we go through this “is Soto really not that good?” thing at some point every season, and the answer always ends up being “he is that good.”

9) (4) (4) (6) Kyle Tucker HOU, OF, 26.5 – Homer power is down a bit with only 7 homers in 57 games, partly due to a career low 13.3 degree launch, but with everything else looking great, I’m guessing he will go on a homer binge in the near future

10) (5) (6) (9) Vladimir Guerrero Jr. TOR, 1B, 24.3 – .677 OPS in his last 25 games has brought his season numbers down to a pedestrian area, but it’s a just a cold streak. The .403 xwOBA is in the top 3% of the league. Just look at Juan Soto, you always want to be buying these small dips in superstar’s production if it leaves open even the smallest of buy windows

11) (14) (8) (10) Aaron Judge NYY, OF, 31.1 – Regression? He’s actually managed to improve with a career high 97.2 MPH EV and .476 xwOBA. If you are in win mode, he would rank as high as 3rd overall

12) (12) (11) (13) Bo Bichette TOR, SS, 25.3 – He’s improving his strength, taking the hit tool to the next level with a .329 BA and .331 xBA, but he hasn’t improved his weaknesses (BB% and launch), and he’s also not running (2 steals)

13) (13) (13) (8) Bobby Witt Jr. KCR, SS/3B, 23.0 – If you can buy low based off the .694 OPS, I would jump all over it. He has a .347 xwOBA vs. a .297 wOBA, and his FB/LD EV is 94.1 MPH, which was his biggest problem last year. He’s taken a step forward from 2022, but the surface stats just haven’t shown it yet.

14) (20) (20) (18) Bryce Harper PHI, OF, 30.8 – Returned much earlier than expected from Tommy John and is right back to being elite with a .385 xwOBA. If you are looking for kinks in the armor, he only has 3 homers in 28 games, and his 37.8% whiff% is a career high by far, but considering the circumstances and how great he’s performed, I’m inclined to overlook it.

15) (18) (18) (26) Pete Alonso NYM, 1B, 28.6 – .402 xwOBA is a career best. He’s on pace for almost 60 homers

16) (10) (10) (14) Rafael Devers BOS, 3B, 26.7 – I’ve seen people tempted to sell low on Devers. Do not do that. He’s still absolutely crushing the ball with a 93.2 MPH EV and his .370 xwOBA is still in the near elite range

17) (24) (36) (36) Spencer Strider ATL, RHP, 24.7 – 40.6% K% leads all qualified pitchers by a mile (Ohtani is 2nd with a 33.8% K%). Only deGrom’s 39.1% K% can even get within spitting distance of Strider if you lower the threshold down to 30 IP. Strider is the new top dog pitcher in dynasty.

18) (21) (17) (17) Mookie Betts LAD, OF, 30.8 – .997 OPS with 11 homers in his last 31 games

By Michael Halpern (@MichaelCHalpern)
Email: michaelhalpern@imaginarybrickwall.com
Twitter: Imaginary Brick Wall (@DynastyHalp)

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