2025 fantasy baseball draft kit: Rankings, sleepers, cheat sheets, strategy and more (2025)

Welcome to our fantasy baseball 2025 draft kit, offering award-winning rankings (and award-winning writers), projections, a customizable cheat sheet, sleepers, strategy, and everything in between — basically whatever you need to run roughshod over your leaguemates this season!

Be sure to check back here often. We’ll be regularly adding content to this draft kit page throughout the preseason, and if you don’t see what you’re looking for, don’t hesitate to drop a request in the comments and we’ll see if we can fulfill it before draft day (or let you know if it’s already in the works.) We aim to please!

Alright, let’s get busy preparing to dominate! Play ball!

RANKS, CHEAT SHEETS, AUCTION VALUES, MOCKS

• Customizable fantasy baseball cheat sheet with personalized rankings
• Jake Ciely’s 2025 fantasy baseball draft sheet with auction values
• Jake Ciely’s 2025 fantasy baseball rankings: Top 320 hitters, 225 pitchers
• Eno Sarris’ 2025 starting pitcher rankings (Updated 3/21)
• Derek VanRiper’s Top 300 hitters for 2025
• Greg Jewett’s Top 40 RP rankings: From Emmanuel Clase to Camilo Doval
• Jewett’s Top 75 RP rankings for SOLDS leagues
• Jewett’s bullpen report: Closer competitions, and updated rankings (3/20)
• Closer tiers for the Top 50 relievers, plus 7 sleepers to know (Jewett)
• Points league rankings: Top 300 players (Updated 3/19 — Waterloo)
• Dynasty league rankings: Top 400 players (Welsh)
• Position tiers/shapes: MI | CI | OF/C (Poindexter)
• Position profiles: 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | C | UT (McCaffrey)

SLEEPERS, ANALYSIS, ROUNDTABLES and MORE!

• How to draft a contender in a high stakes H2H league (Salfino)
• Scouting spring standouts Curtis Mead, Casey Mize, more (Arcadipane)
• Case for AL MVP: The pro and cons of the top contenders (Salfino)
• Case for NL MVP: The pros and cons of the top contenders (Salfino)
• Spring training hitter performances worth your attention (Poindexter)
• Spring training pitching performances worth your attention (Poindexter)
• All-Post-250 ADP team: Last-round fantasy draft targets (Laghezza)
• A data dive into boosting team BA during the season (Laghezza)
• Two dominant closers strategy: A fantasy baseball cheat code (Salfino)
• Expectations for second-half starting pitcher swooners (Poindexter)
• Expectations for second-half starting pitcher standouts (Poindexter)
• Pulled fly balls: A power-predicting, need-to-know metric (Laghezza)
• Beyond tiers: Shape of the corner infield positions (Poindexter)
• Beyond tiers: Shape of the middle infield positions (Poindexter)
• Undervalued players: Hunter Greene, Brandon Lowe and more (Salfino)
• Overvalued players: Freddie Freeman, James Wood and more (Salfino)
• Starting pitcher sleepers: Brandon Pfaadt, Grant Holmes and more
• Corner infielder sleepers: Michael Toglia, Matt Shaw and more
• Middle infielder sleepers: Jeremy Peña, Connor Norby and more
• Outfielder sleepers: Dylan Crews, Jung Hoo Lee and more
• Zero SP strategy: Why you should avoid premium-priced starters (Salfino)
• The perfect first five rounds of a fantasy baseball draft (Laghezza)
• Why xERA should be your go-to stat for SP evaluation (Salfino)
• ADP report: Early top picks, position outlooks, inviting targets (Engel)
• Utilizing the mullet draft strategy in fantasy baseball (Poindexter)
• Position scarcity rankings and multi-position eligible players (Engel)
• Multiple-position eligible players for 2025, Part 2 (Engel)

ENO SARRIS ESSENTIALS

• 10 bold predictions for the 2025 MLB season
• 2025 SP rankings with Stuff+ powered projections
• Deep-league pitcher breakouts for the 2025 fantasy baseball season
• Deep-league hitter breakouts for the 2025 fantasy baseball season
• Spring watch: 3 pitchers with intriguing new pitches
• MLB breakout candidates: Six pitchers ready ready to step up in 2025
• MLB breakout candidates: Young hitters ready to step up in 2025
• Stuff+: The statistic that is changing MLB — for better or worse

PROSPECT REPORTS — KEITH LAW

• Predictions, projections and wild guesses for the 2025 MLB season
• MLB breakout candidates for 2025: Brooks Lee, Ivan Herrera, more
• 25 MLB rookies most likely to make an impact in 2025
• Roman Anthony heads 2025 Top 100 MLB prospects list
• 15 MLB prospects who just missed the Top 100 list
• Seattle sits atop 2025 MLB farm system rankings
• A link to every team’s Top 20 prospects by division
• MLB prospects live chat recap (February 12)

EXPERT INSIGHT FROM THE ATHLETIC’S MLB WRITERS

• 25 predictions for the 2025 MLB season (Bowden)
• Ranking all 30 MLB teams’ Opening Day lineups (Staff)
• MLB’s Top 100 players, broken down into 7 tiers (Staff)
• The 2025 Aces Project: MLB insiders rank MLB’s starting pitchers (Staff)
• Who’s turning heads this spring? A pick for every MLB team (Bowden)
• MLB team report cards: Grades, takeaways, predictions (Bowden)
• Offseason grades for all 30 MLB teams, from LAD (A) to STL (F)
• MLB Comeback Player of the Year candidates for 2025 (Bowden)
• MLB All-Under 25 Team: Witt Jr., De La Cruz, Skenes and more
• 30 top ROY candidates to watch in spring training (Bowden)
• 12 top MLB breakout candidates to watch in spring training (Bowden)
• One pressing question for all 30 MLB teams ahead of spring training
• 3 stealth MLB relievers who nobody can hit (Kepner)

THIS WEEK ON

• Which prospects could take the biggest leap forward in 2025?

(Top photo, from left to right, Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Bobby Witt Jr.: Heather Barry / Stringer, Getty Images, Jason Mowry / Getty Images, Mary DeCicco / Stringer, Getty Images)
(Lede image credits — Illustration: Kelsea Petersen/ The Athletic; Heather Barry / Stringer, Getty Images, Jason Mowry / Getty Images, Mary DeCicco / Stringer, Getty Images)