Updated 2022 Fantasy Baseball Rankings for Points Leagues - Matt Olson, Carlos Correa, Josh Donaldson, Justin Verlander and More

Welcome back RotoBallers! Spring Training is in full swing, and fantasy baseball draft season is about to pick up in a big way. Below you'll find our MLB team's updated 2022 fantasy baseball points league rankings, specifically catered and adjusted for for points leagues and head-to-head (H2H) points league formats.

In the last few days and weeks, we've seen a ton of changes around MLB including injury updates, free agent signings and big-name players getting traded. Our rankings below reflect all of this movement, to bring you the latest and greatest rankings for your drafts. You can stay on top of all of the MLB moves with our 24x7  running feed of fantasy baseball news and injuries. And in case you didn't hear, we just released our new and updated fantasy sports mobile app, completely free and loaded up with player news alerts. Be sure to download our app and stay on top of all the MLB news and analysis with our free push notification alerts.

Today we'll be taking a look at our updated points league rankings, just released by RotoBaller's lead fantasy baseball points analyst Nicklaus Gaut. Here at RotoBaller, we feel that fantasy baseball points leagues and H2H points formats are inappropriately underserved by the fantasy baseball community and other fantasy baseball platforms. Here at RotoBaller we really take pride in our in-depth points leagues articles, tools and analysis. All through the preseason and MLB season we are publishing fantasy baseball rankings, tools articles, sleepers, targets and avoids -- all geared towards fantasy baseball points and H2H points leagues. Dig in!

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Top 500 Fantasy Baseball Points Rankings

These rankings are for points and head-to-head points leagues. You can also see our early 5x5 mixed league roto rankings.

Before we get to the H2H points rankings themselves, let's quickly review points leagues and how they are different than other formats. Typically, points leagues have different league settings and scoring formats than other fantasy baseball leagues. Different MLB stats and categories are assigned different point values, and those can vary by individual league settings. Those different point buckets are then added up over the course of a scoring period or season.

In many cases, hitters who walk more and strikeout less are preferred for points leagues. Also, many league formats tend to give more weight to pitchers than normal as they can easily accrue points through categories like Innings Pitched. These are the general frameworks that we use for our points league rankings below, and explain why they look different than more standard 5x5 roto fantasy baseball rankings.

Ranking	Tier	Player Name	Position
1	1	Juan Soto	OF
2	1	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	1B
3	1	Gerrit Cole	SP
4	1	Jose Ramirez	3B
5	1	Shane Bieber	SP
6	1	Freddie Freeman	1B
7	2	Bryce Harper	OF
8	2	Rafael Devers	3B
9	2	Max Scherzer	SP
10	2	Jacob deGrom	SP
11	2	Matt Olson	1B
12	2	Trea Turner	2B/SS
13	2	Corbin Burnes	SP
14	2	Bo Bichette	SS
15	2	Mookie Betts	OF
16	2	Shohei Ohtani	DH/SP
17	2	Ronald Acuna Jr.	OF
18	2	Robbie Ray	SP
19	3	Walker Buehler	SP
20	3	Ozzie Albies	2B
21	3	Salvador Perez	C
22	3	Manny Machado	3B
23	3	Brandon Woodruff	SP
24	3	Paul Goldschmidt	1B
25	3	Pete Alonso	1B
26	3	Mike Trout	OF
27	3	Kyle Tucker	OF
28	3	Lucas Giolito	SP
29	3	Aaron Nola	SP
30	3	Sandy Alcantara	SP
31	3	Kevin Gausman	SP
32	3	Marcus Semien	2B/SS
33	3	Zack Wheeler	SP
34	3	Max Fried	SP
35	3	Will Smith	C
36	4	Yordan Alvarez	OF
37	4	J.T. Realmuto	C
38	4	Xander Bogaerts	SS
39	4	Jose Berrios	SP
40	4	Aaron Judge	OF
41	4	Julio Urias	SP
42	4	Nolan Arenado	3B
43	4	Charlie Morton	SP
44	4	Wander Franco	3B/SS
45	4	Trevor Story	SS
46	4	Alex Bregman	3B
47	4	Frankie Montas	SP
48	4	Josh Hader	RP
49	4	Freddy Peralta	SP
50	4	Jose Abreu	1B
51	4	Lance Lynn	SP
52	4	Francisco Lindor	SS
53	4	Bryan Reynolds	OF
54	5	Justin Verlander	SP
55	5	Dylan Cease	SP
56	5	Nick Castellanos	OF
57	5	Carlos Correa	SS
58	5	Yasmani Grandal	C/1B
59	5	Whit Merrifield	2B/OF
60	5	Joe Musgrove	SP
61	5	Luis Robert	OF
62	5	Rhys Hoskins	1B
63	5	Austin Riley	1B/3B
64	5	Liam Hendriks	RP
65	5	Cedric Mullins II	OF
66	5	Logan Webb	SP
67	6	Brandon Lowe	2B/OF
68	6	Starling Marte	OF
69	6	Nathan Eovaldi	SP
70	6	Josh Bell	1B/OF
71	6	Jose Altuve	2B
72	6	Max Muncy	1B/2B
73	6	Teoscar Hernandez	OF
74	6	Tyler O'Neill	OF
75	6	Ryan Pressly	RP
76	6	Raisel Iglesias	RP
77	6	George Springer	OF
78	6	Anthony Rendon	3B
79	6	Aroldis Chapman	RP
80	7	Jorge Polanco	2B/SS
81	7	Chris Bassitt	SP
82	7	Byron Buxton	OF
83	7	Sean Manaea	SP
84	7	Willson Contreras	C
85	7	Eduardo Rodriguez	SP
86	7	Framber Valdez	SP
87	7	Luis Castillo	SP
88	7	Kris Bryant	1B/3B/OF
89	7	Corey Seager	SS
90	7	J.D. Martinez	OF
91	7	Mitch Haniger	OF
92	7	Ranger Suarez	SP/RP
93	7	Jonathan India	2B
94	7	Dansby Swanson	SS
95	7	Joey Votto	1B
96	7	Randy Arozarena	OF
97	7	Emmanuel Clase	RP
98	8	Trevor Rogers	SP
99	8	Ketel Marte	2B/OF
100	8	Yu Darvish	SP
101	8	Joey Gallo	OF
102	8	Alek Manoah	SP
103	8	Carlos Rodon	SP
104	8	Tim Anderson	SS
105	8	Christian Yelich	OF
106	8	Tommy Edman	2B/OF
107	8	Jared Walsh	1B/OF
108	8	Tyler Stephenson	C/1B
109	8	Edwin Diaz	RP
110	8	Eloy Jimenez	OF
111	8	Tyler Mahle	SP
112	9	Daulton Varsho	C/OF
113	9	Jake Cronenworth	1B/2B/SS
114	9	Anthony Rizzo	1B
115	9	DJ LeMahieu	1B/2B/3B
116	9	Matt Chapman	3B
117	9	Luis Garcia	SP
118	9	Jordan Romano	RP
119	9	Trey Mancini	1B
120	9	Jordan Montgomery	SP
121	9	Javier Baez	2B/SS
122	9	Adam Wainwright	SP
123	9	C.J. Cron	1B
124	9	Kyle Schwarber	1B/OF
125	9	Justin Turner	3B
126	9	Marcell Ozuna	OF
127	9	Jeimer Candelario	3B
128	9	Josh Donaldson	3B
129	9	Michael Kopech	RP
130	9	Franmil Reyes	OF
131	9	Nathaniel Lowe	1B
132	9	Sonny Gray	SP
133	9	Jorge Soler	OF
134	10	Jack Flaherty	SP
135	10	Taylor Rogers	RP
136	10	Clayton Kershaw	SP
137	10	Jesse Winker	OF
138	10	Ke'Bryan Hayes	3B
139	10	Gleyber Torres	2B/SS
140	10	Tarik Skubal	SP
141	10	Michael Conforto	OF
142	10	Corey Knebel	RP
143	10	Nelson Cruz	DH
144	10	Giancarlo Stanton	OF
145	10	Marcus Stroman	SP
146	10	Brandon Nimmo	OF
147	10	Giovanny Gallegos	RP
148	10	Kenley Jansen	RP
149	10	Keibert Ruiz	C
150	10	Willy Adames	SS
151	10	Ty France	1B/2B/3B
152	10	Cody Bellinger	OF
153	11	Hyun Jin Ryu	SP
154	11	Seiya Suzuki	OF
155	11	Ryan Mountcastle	1B/OF
156	11	Austin Meadows	OF
157	11	Ryan McMahon	2B/3B
158	11	Charlie Blackmon	OF
159	11	Kike Hernandez	2B/OF
160	11	Yoan Moncada	3B
161	11	Blake Treinen	RP
162	11	Jean Segura	2B
163	11	Bobby Witt Jr.	SS
164	11	German Marquez	SP
165	11	Craig Kimbrel	RP
166	11	Shane McClanahan	SP
167	11	Jon Gray	SP
168	11	Alex Verdugo	OF
169	11	Yuli Gurriel	1B
170	11	Gary Sanchez	C
171	11	Dylan Carlson	OF
172	11	Chris Taylor	2B/3B/SS/OF
173	11	Hunter Renfroe	OF
174	11	Robbie Grossman	OF
175	11	Scott Barlow	RP
176	11	Blake Snell	SP
177	11	Joe Ryan	SP
178	11	J.P. Crawford	SS
179	11	Ian Anderson	SP
180	11	Brandon Belt	1B
181	11	Fernando Tatis Jr.	SS/OF
182	11	Patrick Sandoval	SP
183	11	Lucas Sims	RP
184	11	Ian Happ	OF
185	11	Eduardo Escobar	1B/2B/3B
186	11	Steven Matz	SP
187	11	Mitch Garver	C
188	11	Brandon Crawford	SS
189	11	Eddie Rosario	OF
190	12	Luis Severino	SP
191	12	Amed Rosario	SS/OF
192	12	Alex Wood	SP
193	12	Adley Rutschman	C
194	12	Trent Grisham	OF
195	12	Bailey Ober	SP
196	12	John Means	SP
197	12	Zac Gallen	SP
198	12	Max Kepler	OF
199	12	Miguel Sano	1B
200	12	Matt Barnes	RP
201	12	Myles Straw	OF
202	12	Eugenio Suarez	3B/SS
203	12	Jonathan Schoop	1B/2B
204	12	Sean Murphy	C
205	12	Akil Baddoo	OF
206	12	Logan Gilbert	SP
207	12	Spencer Torkelson	1B
208	12	Luis Urias	2B/3B/SS
209	12	Adam Duvall	OF
210	12	Frank Schwindel	1B/OF
211	12	Mark Melancon	RP
212	12	David Bednar	RP
213	12	Cal Quantrill	SP/RP
214	12	Drew Rasmussen	SP/RP
215	13	Mike Clevinger	SP
216	13	Nestor Cortes Jr.	SP/RP
217	13	Anthony DeSclafani	SP
218	13	Yusei Kikuchi	SP
219	13	Bobby Dalbec	1B
220	13	Rowan Wick	RP
221	13	Jazz Chisholm Jr.	2B/SS
222	13	Andrew Benintendi	OF
223	13	Carlos Carrasco	SP
224	13	Alex Kirilloff	OF
225	13	Mark Canha	OF
226	13	Casey Mize	SP
227	13	Taijuan Walker	SP
228	13	Gregory Soto	RP
229	13	Garrett Whitlock	RP
230	13	Adalberto Mondesi	3B/SS
231	13	Marco Gonzales	SP
232	13	Andrew McCutchen	OF
233	13	Luke Voit	1B
234	13	Mike Yastrzemski	OF
235	13	Shane Baz	SP
236	13	James Kaprielian	SP
237	13	Jesus Aguilar	1B
238	13	Cesar Hernandez	2B
239	13	Danny Jansen	C
240	13	Brendan Rodgers	2B/SS
241	13	Lourdes Gurriel Jr.	1B/OF
242	14	Andrew Heaney	SP
243	14	Avisail Garcia	OF
244	14	Aaron Civale	SP
245	14	Eric Hosmer	1B
246	14	Rowdy Tellez	1B
247	14	Nicky Lopez	SS
248	14	Carson Kelly	C
249	14	Omar Narvaez	C
250	14	Pablo Lopez	SP
251	14	Lance McCullers Jr.	SP
252	14	Tommy Pham	OF
253	14	Jake McGee	RP
254	14	Miguel Rojas	SS
255	14	Anthony Santander	OF
256	14	Triston McKenzie	SP
257	14	David Fletcher	2B/SS
258	14	Camilo Doval	RP
259	14	Kolten Wong	2B
260	14	Travis d'Arnaud	C
261	14	Yadier Molina	C
262	14	Zack Greinke	SP
263	14	Austin Hays	OF
264	14	Jameson Taillon	SP
265	14	Lou Trivino	RP
266	14	Cristian Javier	SP/RP
267	14	Tanner Houck	SP/RP
268	14	Carlos Santana	1B
269	14	Trevor Bauer	SP
270	14	Wil Myers	OF
271	14	Alex Cobb	SP
272	15	Luis Arraez	2B/3B/OF
273	15	Elias Diaz	C
274	15	Evan Longoria	3B
275	15	Jarred Kelenic	OF
276	15	Noah Syndergaard	SP
277	15	AJ Pollock	OF
278	15	Ramon Laureano	OF
279	15	Josiah Gray	SP
280	15	Jacob Stallings	C
281	15	Zach Thompson	SP
282	15	Michael Brantley	OF
283	15	Tanner Rainey	RP
284	15	Jose Urquidy	SP
285	15	Patrick Wisdom	1B/3B/OF
286	15	Aaron Ashby	RP
287	15	Dylan Floro	RP
288	15	Ken Giles	RP
289	15	Harrison Bader	OF
290	15	Huascar Ynoa	SP
291	15	Andrew Vaughn	1B/OF
292	16	Adolis Garcia	OF
293	16	Christian Vazquez	C
294	16	Kyle Hendricks	SP
295	16	Andrew Kittredge	RP
296	16	Patrick Corbin	SP
297	16	Chris Flexen	SP
298	16	Jeff McNeil	2B/OF
299	16	Kyle Gibson	SP
300	16	Mike Moustakas	1B/3B
301	16	Paul Sewald	RP
302	16	Mike Minor	SP
303	16	Isiah Kiner-Falefa	SS
304	16	Raimel Tapia	OF
305	16	Luis Patino	SP
306	16	Oneil Cruz	SS
307	16	Devin Williams	RP
308	16	Mike Zunino	C
309	16	Chris Sale	SP
310	16	Kyle Finnegan	RP
311	16	Dylan Bundy	SP
312	16	Josh Rojas	2B/3B/SS/OF
313	16	Nick Madrigal	2B
314	16	Zach Plesac	SP
315	16	Adam Frazier	2B/OF
316	16	Jesus Sanchez	OF
317	16	Cavan Biggio	3B/OF
318	16	Alejandro Kirk	C
319	16	Tyler Wells	RP
320	17	Nick Martinez	SP
321	17	James Karinchak	RP
322	17	Corey Kluber	SP
323	17	Stephen Strasburg	SP
324	17	Michael Pineda	SP
325	17	Tyler Anderson	SP
326	17	Reiver Sanmartin	SP
327	17	James McCann	C
328	17	Elieser Hernandez	SP
329	17	Alec Bohm	3B
330	17	Christian Walker	1B
331	17	Daniel Hudson	RP
332	17	Nick Pivetta	SP
333	17	Austin Gomber	SP
334	17	Yandy Diaz	1B/3B
335	17	Max Stassi	C
336	17	Zach Eflin	SP
337	17	Cole Sulser	RP
338	17	Brian Anderson	3B
339	17	Randal Grichuk	OF
340	17	Chris Stratton	RP
341	17	Luke Weaver	SP
342	17	Jonathan Villar	2B/3B/SS
343	17	Chad Green	RP
344	17	Cody Morris	SP
345	17	Steven Kwan	OF
346	17	Aaron Hicks	OF
347	17	Carlos Hernandez	SP
348	17	Jose Quintana	SP
349	17	Eric Haase	C/OF
350	17	Wade Miley	SP
351	17	Ben Gamel	OF
352	17	Jeremy Pena	SS
353	17	Tylor Megill	SP
354	17	Tommy La Stella	2B/3B
355	17	Gio Urshela	3B/SS
356	17	Roberto Perez	C
357	17	Joe Barlow	RP
358	17	Eric Lauer	SP
359	17	David Peralta	OF
360	17	Brady Singer	SP
361	17	Jesus Luzardo	SP
362	17	Paul DeJong	SS
363	18	Jonathan Loaisiga	RP
364	18	Seth Brown	1B
365	18	Andres Gimenez	2B/SS
366	18	Anthony Bender	RP
367	18	Manuel Margot	OF
368	18	Jo Adell	OF
369	18	Merrill Kelly	SP
370	18	Martin Maldonado	C
371	18	Brad Keller	SP
372	18	Miles Mikolas	SP
373	18	Jose Iglesias	2B/SS
374	18	Dane Dunning	SP
375	18	Tony Kemp	2B/OF
376	18	Madison Bumgarner	SP
377	18	Miguel Cabrera	1B
378	18	Nick Ahmed	SS
379	18	Adrian Houser	SP
380	18	Antonio Senzatela	SP
381	18	Kole Calhoun	OF
382	18	Dallas Keuchel	SP
383	18	Reid Detmers	SP
384	18	Drew Smyly	SP
385	18	Michael Fulmer	RP
386	18	Tyler Naquin	OF
387	18	Didi Gregorius	SS
388	18	Lorenzo Cain	OF
389	18	Kyle Freeland	SP
390	18	Jose Suarez	SP
391	18	Kyle Farmer	3B/SS
392	18	Ha-Seong Kim	2B/3B/SS
393	18	Jorge Alcala	RP
394	18	Kris Bubic	SP
395	18	Hunter Greene	SP
396	19	Austin Nola	C
397	19	Ji-Man Choi	1B
398	19	Diego Castillo	RP
399	19	JT Brubaker	SP
400	19	Garrett Cooper	1B/OF
401	19	Matt Manning	SP
402	19	Carter Kieboom	3B
403	19	Alex Reyes	RP
404	19	Domingo German	SP
405	19	Chris Paddack	SP
406	19	Dakota Hudson	SP
407	19	Robinson Cano	2B
408	19	LaMonte Wade Jr.	OF
409	19	Lane Thomas	OF
410	19	Pavin Smith	1B/OF
411	19	Alex Colome	RP
412	19	Jordan Lyles	SP
413	19	Willie Calhoun	OF
414	19	Ryan Yarbrough	SP/RP
415	19	Tony Gonsolin	SP
416	19	Tucker Barnhart	C
417	19	Joey Bart	C
418	19	Wilmer Flores	1B/2B/3B
419	19	Jorge Alfaro	C/OF
420	19	Julio Rodriguez	OF
421	19	Joc Pederson	OF
422	19	Bryan De La Cruz	OF
423	19	Carlos Estevez	RP
424	19	Drew Steckenrider	RP
425	19	Joey Wendle	2B/3B/SS
426	19	Nick Senzel	2B/OF
427	19	Aristides Aquino	OF
428	19	Bobby Bradley	1B
429	19	Yoshi Tsutsugo	1B/OF
430	19	Tyler Alexander	SP/RP
431	19	Rich Hill	SP
432	19	Colin Moran	1B
433	19	Yan Gomes	C
434	19	Jake Fraley	OF
435	19	Jurickson Profar	1B/2B/OF
436	19	Michael Lorenzen	RP
437	19	Adbert Alzolay	SP/RP
438	19	Kyle Lewis	OF
439	19	Chad Pinder	2B/OF
440	19	Abraham Toro	2B/3B
441	19	Hunter Dozier	1B/3B/OF
442	19	Cole Irvin	SP
443	19	Michael Wacha	SP
444	19	Josh Harrison	2B/3B/SS/OF
445	19	Erick Fedde	SP
446	19	Ramon Urias	2B/SS/3B
447	19	Art Warren	RP
448	20	Kevin Kiermaier	OF
449	20	Riley Greene	OF
450	20	Michael A. Taylor	OF
451	20	Elvis Andrus	SS
452	20	Kevin Newman	2B/SS
453	20	Gavin Lux	2B/SS/OF
454	20	Pierce Johnson	RP
455	20	Sam Hilliard	OF
456	20	Vladimir Gutierrez	SP
457	20	Ian Kennedy	RP
458	20	A.J. Puk	RP
459	20	Mitch Keller	SP
460	20	Josh Staumont	RP
461	20	Nate Pearson	SP
462	20	Victor Robles	OF
463	20	Stephen Piscotty	OF
464	20	Rafael Ortega	OF
465	20	Juan Yepez	1B
466	20	Andrelton Simmons	SS
467	20	Roansy Contreras	SP
468	20	Justin Dunn	SP
469	20	Josh Naylor	1B/OF
470	20	MJ Melendez	C
471	20	Michael Chavis	1B/2B
472	20	Brad Miller	1B/2B/OF
473	20	Nick Lodolo	SP
474	20	Gavin Sheets	1B/OF
475	20	Alcides Escobar	2B/SS
476	20	Grayson Rodriguez	SP
477	20	Nick Solak	2B
478	20	Robert Suarez	RP
479	20	Vidal Brujan	2B
480	20	Jake Meyers	OF
481	20	Lewin Diaz	1B
482	20	Leury Garcia	2B/3B/SS/OF
483	20	Robert Stephenson	RP
484	20	Rougned Odor	2B/3B
485	20	Trevor Rosenthal	RP
486	20	Aledmys Diaz	1B/2B/3B/SS/OF
487	20	Luis Gil	SP
488	20	Clint Frazier	OF
489	20	Dominic Smith	1B/OF
490	20	Odubel Herrera	OF
491	20	Justin Upton	OF
492	20	Darin Ruf	1B/OF
493	20	Brandon Marsh	OF
494	20	Keston Hiura	1B
495	20	Connor Joe	1B/OF
496	20	Garrett Hampson	2B/OF
497	20	Jose Miranda	2B
498	20	Jose Alvarado	RP

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