The first Dynasty Baseball Rankings Week of the season has arrived! It’s always dangerous dealing with small samples, but the wheeling and dealing doesn’t wait for large samples, so decisions must be made with the information we have. I’m going over 400 deep with quick blurbs for every player. Full Rankings will be on the Patreon with the Top 30 free down below here on the Brick Wall. Here is the April 2026 Top 400+ Dynasty Baseball Rankings (Patreon):
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–2027 TOP 12 FYPD RANKINGS
Off-season Ranking is in parenthesis
1) (1) Shohei Ohtani – LAD, RHP/DH, 31.10 – Stole his first bag of the season yesterday, which was the only thing lacking in his profile this year. Well, I guess saves are actually the only thing lacking in his profile. Come on Ohtani, with Edwin Diaz out, you can’t save a few games too? Slacking.
Shadow1) (1) Shohei Ohtani – LAD, DH only/Weekly Leagues, 31.10 – This is where I would rank Ohtani as a hitter only or in weekly leagues. I’m keeping him Shadow 1, but it he’s still not running that much by next month, I might slip him closer to the Top 5 range
2) (2) Juan Soto – NYM, OF, 27.6 – Hit the IL after 8 games with a calf injury. The only thought is will the calf injury be a reason to not run very much again? But other than that, there is nothing to move off him #2 yet
3) (3) Bobby Witt Jr. – KCR, SS, 26.10 – 0 homers in 23 games, and I can’t say I didn’t at least warn you a little bit, writing in his Top 1,000 blurb, “Witt hit only 23 homers in 157 games, and while I want to completely hand wave it away as just a down power season, I don’t think we can completely dismiss it.” … but just like the off-season, I’m still not letting it scare me away. The dude has a 53.1% Hard Hit% with a 19 degree launch. The homers will come, and everything else is there. I’m not budging off him.
4) (5) Corbin Carroll – ARI, OF, 25.8 – The hamate looks like no problem with a .990 OPS in 20 games
5) (6) Elly De La Cruz – CIN, SS, 24.3 – Power is leveling up with a 95 MPH EV, 53.4% Hard Hit%, and 14.5 degree launch. The 31.7% whiff% with a career 31.8% whiff% really isn’t even that bad. We’re seeing a new level of Elly, and I love it, but the guys I ranked ahead of him still do have more hit tool safety
6) (4) Ronald Acuna Jr. – ATL, OF, 28.4 – .719 OPS vs. .401 xwOBA … if you can buy Acuna even slightly low, I would be all over it
7) (7) Aaron Judge – NYY, OF, 34.0 – The decline ain’t here yet with 9 homers, 4 steals, and a .426 xwOBA. Elite win now piece
8) (16) Paul Skenes – PIT, RHP, 23.10 – Pitt actually has a good offense now. Skenes already has 3 wins. His only weakness is now maybe a strength. He easily ascends to top dynasty pitcher in the game and he might not give up that crown for a long, long time. I don’t remember the last time I had a pitcher in my top 10 dynasty assets.
9) (10) Gunnar Henderson – BAL, SS, 24.10 – Nobody was more frustrated by the 17 homers last year than Gunnar, because he’s out for blood this year with a launch explosion to 19 degrees. The 30.8% Air Pull% has also exploded. It’s working with 7 homers already, which is what we want to see for fantasy, but it is impacting the hit tool with a .196 BA and 30% K%. Hopefully he can find a nice middle ground, but for fantasy, I like the direction he’s headed in assuming the hit tool normalizes
10) (8) Fernando Tatis Jr. – SDP, OF, 27.3 – 67.7% Hard Hit%, 14.5% Barrel%, 94.1 MPH EV, .384 xwOBA … he’s going to be fine. Buy low if you can
11) (9) Julio Rodriguez – SEA, OF, 25.4 – .609 OPS in 24 games … like fucking clockwork … you know the drill, don’t sell low because the big 2nd half is coming. Just gotta sweat it out for 2-3 more months … torture
12) (98) Sal Stewart – CIN, 1B/3B, 22.5 – Maybe I’m a little crazy. Maybe I’m buying too much into a small sample. But tell me what this man doesn’t do. Power (8 homers with a 49.2% Hard Hit%), plate skills (18.4/14.3 K%/BB%), lift (13.9 degree launch), stolen bases (5 steals), and ballpark. And all of these things are things he’s done in the minors and last year in the majors. He’s slow, but he’s in the mold of a Kyle Tucker on the bases. Again, that is everything. I was all in this off-season ranking him in the Top 100 already at #98, and I’m staying all in now. He doesn’t have the hit tool risk of Kurtz. He runs more than Kurtz and Caminero. I can only tell you how I would play the game, and there are just very few guys I’m trading Stewart for right now.
13) (11) Nick Kurtz – SAC, 1B, 23.1 – 98.5 MPH EV with a 64.3% Hard Hit% and .410 xwOBA. I really hope you didn’t panic after his slow start, because he’s already starting the blow up, swing and miss be damned. The 38.6% whiff% is still just a tad high, not gonna lie ha
14) (12) Junior Caminero – TBR, 3B, 22.9 – 5 homers with a 16.8/11.9 K%/BB% in 22 games. He’s lifting and pulling even more. It’s super “fun” that he has a .689 OPS with only 1 homer at the Trop, so we can’t quite put that minor league park career 2025 to bed, but everything still points towards him being one of the premier power hitters in the game for a long time
15) (17) Tarik Skubal – DET, LHP, 29.5 – 2.08 ERA with a 28.0/5.1 K%/BB% … Skenes’ pull ahead with the new and improved Pitt offense, but that is no slander towards Skubal
16) (13) Roman Anthony – BOS, OF, 21.11 – .311 wOBA vs. .348 xwOBA … he’s lifting more with a 10.2 degree launch … the 26.1/13.6 K%/BB% looks good … he’s nabbed 2 bags … the heater is coming. Buy low if you can. I’m not moving off him as an elite core dynasty bat. And those are the type of bats I just don’t trade
17) (14) Kyle Tucker – LAD, OF, 29.3 – Not off to the best start but even when he’s not hot he still produces with 3 homers and 3 steals in 21 games. We know what we are getting from Tucker when it’s all said and done
18) (18) Zach Neto – LAA, SS, 25.2 – 15.7% BB% shows he’s maturing as a hitter. 5 homers and 2 steals in 23 games shows the near elite power/speed combo ain’t going anywhere. A mediocre BA is the only blemish, but he’s backing up my aggressive ranking of him from this off-season
19) (23) Jose Ramirez – CLE, 3B, 33.7 – 6 homers, 10 steals and a .421 xwOBA in 23 games. I would say the decline ain’t here yet. As always, in pure win now mode, he would rank higher
20) (26) Yordan Alvarez – HOU, OF, 28.10 – I started Alvarez’ Top 1,000 blurb by writing, “Alvarez is the easiest buy low call in the history of buy low calls” … and yea, he has a 1.261 OPS in 23 games. .553 xwOBA leads all of baseball by a mile (Dillon Dingler is #2 at .475). Too easy to even victory lap. Just stay healthy
21) (39) CJ Abrams – WSH, SS, 25.7 – The mid 20’s power explosion could be here with a 48.4% Hard Hit% and 90.4 MPH EV. It’s resulted in 6 homers and a 1.016 OPS. I will say he got off to this same hot start last year before cooling off, so maybe he’s a first half player, but I’ve stayed high on Abrams, and it feels great to see the hot start. Plus, a 20/30 floor is why I kept ranking him high
22) (20) Jackson Chourio – MIL, OF, 22.1 – Yet to debut with a fractured hand that is expected to keep him out until early May
23) (27) James Wood – WSH, OF, 23.7 – When you put up a 96.2 MPH EV with a 64.8% Hard Hit%, who even needs to make contact or hit the ball in the air that often? Both of those things are still bad, but I mean, it doesn’t matter with 7 homers, an .893 OPS and .421 xwOBA. And he’s a perfect 4 for 4 on the bases. He’s putting that scary 2nd half in the rearview mirror, but the .237 BA, 32.4% K% and 35.8% whiff% is still lurking
24) (22) Konnor Griffin – PIT, SS/OF, 20.0 – Rough start to his MLB career both surface and underlying numbers wise, but quite clearly we need to be as patient as a saint with a 19/20 year old in his first taste. Hold strong
25) (25) Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – TOR, 1B, 27.1 – 2 homers with a .354 BA … he continues to be far too much of a BA play for fantasy. It’s why I didn’t rank him higher than 25th this off-season. He just doesn’t lift and pull enough and it doesn’t seem like he’s interested in trying to lift and pull more, but he’s still rock solid beast regardless
26) (37) Kevin McGonigle – DET, SS/2B, 21.9 – No adjustment period needed as McGongile is exactly as advertised with a 12.8% whiff% and .317 BA. A 39.4% Hard Hit% with a 18.5 degree launch and 27.3% Air Pull% says the homer power is going to come (1 homer). He’s not running a ton with 1 steal, so that might be the only thing that holds him back even slightly, but he’s already a near elite dynasty asset and this is just the start. I get going McGonigle over Griffin right now, but I can only tell you what I would do, and my gut still can’t part with Griffin. Griffin’s fantasy upside is still on another level
27) (33) Yoshinobu Yamamoto – LAD, RHP, 27.8 – 2.10 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 30.9% whiff%, and a 3.2 BB% in 25.2 IP. He’s backing up being the top pitcher in Tier 2, and with Crochet’s struggles, I can’t say I would take Crochet over Yamamoto. Welcome to Tier 1, Yoshi! And I really don’t think he’s far off from Skenes/Skubal right now. He might get there next month
28) (86) Brice Turang – MIL, 2B, 26.5 – The power ain’t going anywhere, and in fact, it’s leveling up again with a 94.5 MPH EV and 58.8% Hard Hit%. He’s lifting a bit more too with a 11.7 degree launch. And he’s back to running a ton with 6 steals. That is a near elite dynasty asset at the least. We gotta start treating him like it
29) (36) Bryan Woo – SEA, RHP, 26.3 – 2.25 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 21.1/4.9 K%/BB% and a 24.2% whiff% in 32 IP. The only thing keeping him out of Tier 1 is the whiffs, and quite frankly, maybe that shouldn’t even matter. True ace on the Tier 1/2 border, and right now, would I really trade Woo for Crochet? I don’t think I would. It could look silly by next month though. That is the small sample game
30) (49) Cristopher Sanchez – PHI, LHP, 29.5 – Bad BABIP luck (.413) has led to a 1.41 WHIP, but he’s so good that it doesn’t even matter with a 1.59 ERA and 31.7/6.5 K%/BB% in 28.1 IP. 32.3% whiff% is in the elite of the elite. Hard to say he’s not a Tier 1 ace right now, or close to it, and like Woo, could I really trade him for Crochet? I don’t think I could
CLICK HERE TO JOIN MY PATREON FOR THE REST OF THESE RANKS & TONS OF EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ALL SEASON, INCLUDING:
-TOP 400+ APRIL 2026 DYNASTY BASEBALL RANKS
-TOP 300+ APRIL 2026 DYNASTY PROSPECTS RANKINGS COMING SOON
-TONS OF DYNASTY RUNDOWNS
–SPREADSHEETS
-HALP’S DYNASTY BASEBALL PODCAST: APRIL 2026 MAILBAG!
-PREDICTING THE 2027 TOP 50 PROSPECTS RANKINGS
–2027 TOP 12 FYPD RANKINGS
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