Outfielder Rankings: RotoGraphs Consensus Ranks
Consensus Ranks: OF, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, and RP and SP.
Tiered Ranks: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, NL OF, AL SP, NL SP, Holds.
Introducing our revamped ranking process! In the interest of getting our rankings to you, our beloved readers, we will be pumping out the main consensus rankings as close to daily as possible for the next week and a half.
First up are the outfielders. Of particular note might be the rankings of Jason Heyward, Giancarlo Cruz Mike Stanton (and Jay Bruce!), Alex Gordon, Kendrys Morales and Marlon Byrd — for the divergence in our appraisals — as well as the rankings of Brennan Boesch, Logan Morrison, and Carl Crawford — for the convergence in our thinking.
Expect our positional correspondents to highlight players with unique ranks over the coming week. And then each of those positional experts will also be included in the next generation of our rankings. We’ll continue to update these rankings over the course of the season, as we always have.
Thanks to FantasyPros, you will be able to see our individual ranks as well as our consensus. Good luck this season.
This year, we’ll combine outfielders and pitchers — but our commentary will remain split between leagues. So these are our combined outfielder rankings for the 2012 fantasy baseball season. These are for 5×5 roto, but our correspondents will point out values in other systems, as well as push the player pool deeper for those of you in 30-team AL-only leagues.
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| Player Name | Eno Sarris |
Mike Podhorzer |
Jeff Zimmerman |
Zach Sanders |
Staff Consensus |
FantasyPros All Experts |
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| Matt Kemp | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | view |
| Ryan Braun | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | view |
| Jacoby Ellsbury | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | view |
| Carlos Gonzalez | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | view |
| Justin Upton | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | view |
| Jose Bautista | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | view |
| Curtis Granderson | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | view |
| Andrew McCutchen | 9 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 8 | view |
| Josh Hamilton | 11 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 9 | view |
| Matt Holliday | 10 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 10 | view |
| Hunter Pence | 12 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 11 | view |
| Jay Bruce | 14 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 12 | view |
| Mike Stanton | 8 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 13 | view |
| Michael Bourn | 13 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 14 | view |
| Alex Gordon | 15 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 15 | view |
| Desmond Jennings | 19 | 16 | 14 | 22 | 16 | view |
| Adam Jones | 24 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 17 | view |
| Carl Crawford | 18 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 18 | view |
| Shane Victorino | 17 | 18 | 27 | 18 | 19 | view |
| Shin-Soo Choo | 20 | 21 | 25 | 19 | 20 | view |
| Nelson Cruz | 16 | 17 | 23 | 31 | 21 | view |
| B.J. Upton | 27 | 25 | 15 | 21 | 22 | view |
| Ben Zobrist | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 23 | view |
| Lance Berkman | 22 | 31 | 26 | 17 | 24 | view |
| Brett Gardner | 31 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 25 | view |
| Michael Morse | 21 | 27 | 22 | 32 | 26 | view |
| Ichiro Suzuki | 30 | 14 | 30 | 41 | 27 | view |
| Corey Hart | 23 | 33 | 24 | 36 | 28 | view |
| Nick Markakis | 37 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 29 | view |
| Michael Cuddyer | 28 | 23 | 41 | 30 | 30 | view |
| Howard Kendrick | 35 | 38 | 32 | 28 | 31 | view |
| Cameron Maybin | 42 | 30 | 31 | 34 | 32 | view |
| Melky Cabrera | 36 | 39 | 47 | 20 | 33 | view |
| Andre Ethier | 34 | 29 | 46 | 33 | 34 | view |
| Carlos Beltran | 43 | 32 | 40 | 29 | 35 | view |
| Matt Joyce | 40 | 47 | 36 | 23 | 36 | view |
| Jayson Werth | 29 | 40 | 33 | 45 | 37 | view |
| Drew Stubbs | 33 | 49 | 29 | 37 | 38 | view |
| Chris B. Young | 32 | 42 | 35 | 42 | 39 | view |
| Jason Heyward | 25 | 37 | 39 | 54 | 40 | view |
| Peter Bourjos | 51 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 41 | view |
| Angel Pagan | 54 | 34 | 44 | 43 | 42 | view |
| Torii Hunter | 48 | 44 | 49 | 35 | 43 | view |
| Logan Morrison | 38 | 41 | 48 | 49 | 44 | view |
| Coco Crisp | 50 | 35 | 34 | 58 | 45 | view |
| Jeff Francoeur | 49 | 48 | 50 | 39 | 46 | view |
| Nick Swisher | 41 | 51 | 51 | 44 | 47 | view |
| Alejandro De Aza | 60 | 52 | 38 | 52 | 48 | view |
| Lucas Duda | 39 | 60 | 61 | 46 | 49 | view |
| Martin Prado | 44 | 55 | 59 | 48 | 50 | view |
| Carlos Lee | 56 | 46 | 45 | 59 | 51 | view |
| Jose Tabata | 47 | 53 | 43 | 69 | 52 | view |
| Josh Willingham | 46 | 59 | 60 | 47 | 53 | view |
| Brennan Boesch | 52 | 56 | 53 | 51 | 54 | view |
| Austin Jackson | 57 | 69 | 42 | 50 | 55 | view |
| Delmon Young | 63 | 43 | 54 | 66 | 56 | view |
| Alex Rios | 64 | 45 | 69 | 53 | 57 | view |
| Colby Rasmus | 58 | 65 | 58 | 56 | 58 | view |
| Mark Trumbo | 68 | 81 | 67 | 38 | 59 | view |
| J.D. Martinez | 62 | 68 | 52 | 73 | 60 | view |
| Lorenzo Cain | 71 | 50 | 66 | 70 | 61 | view |
| Dexter Fowler | 55 | 63 | 65 | 76 | 62 | view |
| Alex Presley | 67 | 70 | 55 | 68 | 63 | view |
| Carlos Quentin | 65 | 80 | 56 | 60 | 64 | view |
| Emilio Bonifacio | 59 | 76 | 57 | 72 | 65 | view |
| Jason Kubel | 61 | 62 | 70 | 71 | 66 | view |
| Vernon Wells | 76 | 57 | 88 | 55 | 67 | view |
| Michael Brantley | 73 | 67 | 79 | 61 | 68 | view |
| Denard Span | 74 | 64 | 62 | 80 | 69 | view |
| Alfonso Soriano | 83 | 71 | 83 | 57 | 70 | view |
| Jason Bay | 75 | 66 | 82 | 74 | 71 | view |
| Yonder Alonso | 81 | 75 | 75 | 67 | 72 | view |
| Jon Jay | 72 | 78 | 64 | 90 | 73 | view |
| Kendrys Morales | 45 | – | 63 | – | 74 | view |
| David DeJesus | 89 | 73 | 84 | 65 | 75 | view |
| Will Venable | 91 | 77 | 71 | 77 | 76 | view |
| Marlon Byrd | – | 58 | 80 | 79 | 77 | view |
| Seth Smith | 70 | – | 72 | 78 | 78 | view |
| Brandon Belt | 53 | – | 68 | – | 79 | view |
| Ben Revere | 66 | 61 | – | – | 80 | view |
| Nyjer Morgan | 69 | – | 76 | 83 | 81 | view |
| Yoenis Cespedes | 80 | 54 | 100 | – | 82 | view |
| John Mayberry | 90 | – | 86 | 64 | 83 | view |
| Mike Carp | 85 | – | 73 | 89 | 84 | view |
| Dayan Viciedo | 92 | 74 | 81 | – | 85 | view |
| Luke Scott | 94 | – | 92 | 62 | 86 | view |
| Garrett Jones | 88 | – | 74 | 88 | 87 | view |
| Nolan Reimold | 77 | – | 91 | 82 | 88 | view |
| David Murphy | – | 72 | 78 | – | 89 | view |
| Aubrey Huff | – | – | 90 | 63 | 90 | view |
| Josh Reddick | 93 | – | 89 | 75 | 91 | view |
| Mike Trout | 79 | – | 77 | – | 92 | view |
| Chris Heisey | 84 | 79 | – | – | 93 | view |
| Eric Thames | 87 | – | 93 | 85 | 94 | view |
| Mitch Moreland | 78 | – | 87 | – | 95 | view |
| Bryce Harper | – | – | 85 | 86 | 96 | view |
| Ryan Raburn | – | – | 95 | 81 | 97 | view |
| Juan Pierre | 82 | – | – | – | 98 | view |
| Jordan Schafer | 100 | – | 97 | 87 | 99 | view |
| Trevor Plouffe | – | – | – | 84 | 100 | view |
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With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.





This year will you please list players everywhere they’re eligible? Seeing Raburn at the end of that list up there gives me hope.
Bautista below Ellsbury, CarGo, and Upton? Hmm…
(Also, that Fantasy Pros site is amazing! How had I never heard of that before??)
I hope zach’s column has a typo somewhere, I respect differences in opinion but having melky cabrera four spots ahead of stanton seems downright insane.
I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah, insane is the right word.
I’d be curious to hear why he has Bruce 14 spots ahead of Stanton as well.
Zach probably has inside information here. Maybe Melky trained with Hank Aaron XXIV in the offseason.
zack sanders has 53 outfielders he’d rather take than Jason Heyward….. …. ?
I think the fact that his #53 is Alex Rios makes that even more awesome.
How long have you been doing this and which column head has been most accurate historically?
anyone else surprised that not a single person had Joey Bats ahead of any of the top 4 OFs?
Zimmerman has Boesch at 53rd OF yet predicted a top 30 overall season. What gives
That was an entry in the “BOLD Predictions” column — i.e. not something he thinks is likely to happen, but something that he thinks could happen.
right…but why would you put someone you feel had legit top 30 potential behind he likes of Hunter, De Aza, JD Martinez in OF rankings? Just doesn’t make sense. I mean, I’m hoping they factor in upside to these rankings…
@jordy, probably because of downside. I wouldn’t put Boesch below De Aza or Martinez, either, but for rankings you have to consider both upside and downside. If he struggles, Boesch could get benched a lot more quickly than many veteran outfielders with long track records (like Hunter). If you just rank OFs by upside, well, you’re gonna be wasting a lot of picks.
we have an alex gordon hater
Thanks for reminding me how much roto sucks with this list. Why would a site devoted to advanced metrics put out a list for a format that ignores OBP and hyper rewards stopen bases?
In roto OBP is just as related to success as it is in real-live baseball. Neither fantasy or MLB rewards OBP directly…yet teams that know about it, and employ that information most and best tend to win more often. Taking this idea a bit further…most of the advanced stats you revere function the same way. A pitcher’s K/9 is predictive and useful for real and fantasy baseball. FIP helps real teams target undervalued pitchers. Guess what! Fantasy owners can use that same information to find pitchers, who are likely to pitch better than 2011’s ERA would suggest. Are you seeing the connection between fantasy and advanced stats yet?
Real-life baseball rewards OBP directly in the form of making fewer outs/getting more chances at the plate.
Alex Presley a definite sleeper. Been a sleeper his whole career! has done nothing but mash past two full seasons including half a year at MLB level
i am really, really confused with zach sanders list. really confused.