Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Scott Pianowski's rest-of-season risers and fallers as of April 6
Here are Scott Pianowski's latest fantasy baseball rankings updates.
With about a week and a half of games in the books, we’re still waiting for offense to start. MLB is batting . 234 as a whole, which would be a new seasonal low (it’s 11 points lower than last year).
OBP is static year-over-year, in part because walks are up (so are strikeouts). The home-run rate would be the lowest in 12 years, but again, it’s early. It’s not warm everywhere yet.
Had I been given free tickets to the Cardinals-Tigers game on Sunday night (in 40-degree temps), I probably would have passed. Maybe if I put “Here Comes the Sun” on an extended loop, the weather will comply. Every Monday, I’ll be re-ranking my top 250 moving forward.
Use it to scout out trades and pickups or to self-scout your own roster. Here are some of the risers and fallers from this week’s list. Risers Yordan Alvarez, OF, Astros Perhaps I held Alvarez’s injury-plagued 2025 season against him too much; he was dinged in previous years, but still averaged a reasonable 135 games between 2021 and 2024.