2026 Fantasy Baseball Insertion Rankings
The hub for my trip through all 30 teams while compiling my 2026 fantasy baseball player rankings
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Explanation
I have found the best, most informative, and most enjoyable way to build out my fantasy baseball rankings is one player at a time. For the past four seasons, I have done an in-depth team preview for all 30 MLB clubs, going player-by-player through all fantasy-relevant names. I look deep into each player and insert them into my rankings where I believe they should go. This year, we’re doing a podcast episode for each team as well just so you have another option on how to take it in.
From late October through the month of February, I will slowly publish all 30 team previews. After I preview a player, I will show a screenshot of where I have put them into my ranks.
I go in reverse order of last year’s standings. That is because the bad teams tend to change their roster less during the winter, so I want to write up the competitive teams later in the offseason.
That means that I begin this year with the Rockies. The hitter ranks process began like this:
Rankings #1
Ezequiel Tovar
I looked at Tovar first, so he became my #1 player ranked. Then I looked at Hunter Goodman, who I liked better, so the rankings changed like this:
Rankings #2
Hunter Goodman
Ezequiel Tovar
And then I looked at the rest of the hitters on the Rockies, and so on and so forth through the entire league.
The advantage of this system is that it completely eliminates the anchoring bias. If I started with early ADP, or someone else’s ranks, or last year’s player rater, each player gets anchored to that starting place, and I could very well be hesitant to move them too far away from it, even if my analysis on them suggested I should.
I hope you all enjoy it. Most of each team preview will be behind the paywall. So, you will have to become a paid subscriber for $12/month or $85/year to get the full thing.
If you subscribe and you take the team to read or listen to each team’s analysis, I am confident in saying you will have a grasp on the player pool that few others have. And I think you will enjoy seeing the list develop.