2015 RotoGraphs Staff Picks

Here are the RotoGraphs Staff Picks for the 2015 season. Because we like to pick things! We collected all preferred players (and busts) and assembled them in one place for your reference and viewing pleasure.

Last year, we posted staff picks a couple of weeks earlier in the month as a complement to your draft planning. It’s a little late now, unless you’re drafting right before Opening Day, but hey! You can still use it as an in-season waiver wire tool and additional reasons to praise or ridicule us, if that’s your thing.

The categories are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ll try to illuminate the ones that are less clear. A sleeper is an undervalued standard mixed-leaguer, whereas a deep sleeper is a player who maybe isn’t drafted in mixed leagues but eventually succeeds, if not excels, in a starting role. Best flyers are players typically undrafted in most leagues but end up being great waiver wire additions mid-year.

The staff has different opinions as to who qualifies for those categories, so read with an open mind. Also, I had the opportunity to add or adjust last year’s categories and I botched it. If you have any recommendations for picks you’d like to see next year, let us know in the comments. Maybe we’ll cook up something extra for the All-Star Break.

Enjoy!

* Yeah, Betts isn’t eligible to win Rookie of the Year, but we all wish he was!