Author: Paul Sporer | Page 246 | RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball

With relievers now available, our first run of every position is posted so I’ve compiled those rankings into a handy-dandy spreadsheet! It will be updated in March when we update the positional rankings.

Enjoy!

Click here for the spreadsheet.

FYI: This post is updated from 2016’s version, hence the older comments

February Rankings – Relievers

by Paul Sporer

March 1, 2017

We’re going position by position this week and next with our initial roll out of rankings. We will update these in March based on Spring Training activity and injuries.

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. We can also be reached via Twitter:

There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.

Key:

AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

Previous Editions:

OF
SP
1B
SS
3B
2B
C

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 432 – Prospect Bonanza with Eric Longenhagen

by Paul Sporer

February 28, 2017

2/28/17

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Leading Off: Question of the Day

How good is Andrew Benintendi going to be this year? (1:48)

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Market Watch: Let’s Run It Back

by Paul Sporer

February 28, 2017

The second installment of my new series tracking the NFBC average draft position market will be formatted a little differently and you can let me know which works best. I will still highlight the biggest riser and faller, but then I’ll go position-by-position for a takeaway or two. Let’s see how that works compared to last week’s. Comment below on your preferred method.

Previous Editions:

February 22nd

BIGGEST RISER: Neftali Feliz – +20 spots to pick 307

For the second straight week, the assumed Brewers closer is the big mover up the board. It’s not impossible to see why. His velocity returned last year, surging back to 96 MPH on average, and so did his strikeout (28%) and swinging strike (14%) rates – the latter being a career-best. The home run rate (1.7 HR/9) is worrisome, but a sky-high 19% HR/FB seems unlikely to repeat, even for a flyball pitcher like Feliz. Even with back-to-back big surges up the board, he’s still just 33rd reliever off the board so he’s likely to keep moving up. I suspect he’ll land somewhere in the mid-20s which is still cheap enough to invest, even with his flaws.

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