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- Heath's Sleepers | Breakouts | Busts
- Scott's Top 100 prospects | Sleepers | Breakouts | Busts | Dynasty Top 100
- Dynasty Startup Mock Draft
- Fantasy Baseball Top 100 Prospects
- 20-team Dynasty Startup Draft
Have you played in a dynasty league yet? They're all the rage these days. Nothing comes closer to simulating the GM experience, and isn't that the heart of Fantasy Baseball?
We're making a concerted effort to represent it more in our content this draft prep season, what with a dynasty-specific top 100 and prospect rankings both combined and position-by-position. But you know what else is at the heart of Fantasy Baseball? The draft.
So here it is: our first ever prospects-only draft.
Not all dynasty leagues distribute prospects this way – and rest assured, this won't be our only dynasty-themed mock for 2018 – but many do separate the prospects from the major-leaguers. And so that's what we've done here.
To qualify for this draft, a player:
- Must not have more than 130 at-bats in the majors
- Must not have more than 50 innings in the majors
- Must not have spent more than 45 days on the active roster (September excluded)
- Must be under contract with a major-league organization
And here's who took part in this draft:
- Ralph Lifshitz, Razzball
- George Maselli, CBS Sports
- Chris Welsh, In This League podcast
- Scott White, CBS Sports
- Chris Towers, CBS Sports
- Jeff Tobin, CBS Sports
- Michael Hurcomb, CBS Sports
- Adam Aizer, CBS Sports
- malamoney, Razzball
- R.J. White, CBS Sports
- Heath Cummings, CBS Sports
- Jamey Eisenberg, CBS Sports
You'll notice some owners went all-out for upside. Others targeted prospects with a more immediate payoff. I tried to strike a balance between the two, the nature of prospects being that there are no sure things anyway. This time a year ago, Rhys Hoskins was seen as more of an "immediate payoff" than an "upside" guy, and now every dynasty owner wishes he had him.