We've spent the past few months telling you how we feel about the draft pool, from sleepers to breakouts to category specialists to priority positions. Now, it's time to see which of those messages resonated. Or maybe even what we missed.
There's wisdom in consensus, after all, and it's in that vein that I decided to take the pulse of the Fantasy Baseball-playing public with a good old fashioned survey. Below are eight questions that I submitted to my Twitter (yes, I'm still calling it that) and Facebook followers, along with a final tally of their responses. Who's the one player you have to have this year? Top three last year: Oneil Cruz (11), Cole Ragans (11), tie - Juan Soto , Royce Lewis , Triston Casas (10) Cruz was actually the leader in both 2023 and 2024, but he now drops off the chart entirely, having garnered only three votes.
I would say it's because repeated letdowns have sobered the majority on his potential, but by pure ADP, he's actually being drafted higher than ever. More likely, it's a matter of respondents wanting value from their favorites picks, and while the top vote-getter here, Robbie Ray , has been flying up draft boards, he's still priced reasonably as a former Cy Young winner who has been dominating spring training with improved velocity and a new Tarik Skubal-inspired changeup. Not just Ray, but each of the top six have been rapidly moving up draft boards, which is of course a symptom rather than the cause of their popularity.
Bo Bichette , Junior .