Jon Anderson's Outfield Tiered Rankings and Projections, Part 2

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I'm back to finish out my outfield ranks and tiers, which will be the final post in this series. You can read part one here.

We only have three tiers left to cover, but there are 34 names in these tiers. Plenty of different profiles, upsides, and downsides to deal with.

Let's finish this baby out.

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Tier 7

Player			Current Projections
Name	Rank	ADP	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG
Dylan Carlson	41	167	625	79	20	72	5	.256
Jorge Soler	42	189	565	75	30	80	1	.240
Myles Straw	43	135	567	74	4	43	30	.262
Michael Conforto	44	186	580	76	24	76	3	.256
Adolis Garcia	45	159	578	72	26	78	13	.230
Avisail Garcia	46	173	562	70	23	78	8	.265
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.	47	140	544	67	23	76	3	.269
Austin Hays	48	222	558	75	23	70	6	.257
Andrew Vaughn	49	220	533	63	21	65	2	.252
Max Kepler	50	281	555	78	25	68	8	.233
Chris Taylor	51	133	552	77	19	69	10	.254
Alex Kirilloff	52	171	495	59	19	66	4	.271
AJ Pollock	53	227	453	62	22	69	8	.270
Adam Duvall	54	219	520	68	33	83	3	.231
Eddie Rosario	55	158	494	61	22	72	9	.262
Ramon Laureano	56	225	501	68	20	60	13	.253

I am certain that there will be a few guys in this tier that really smash their value this year and take their fantasy team a long way towards success. Some of my favorites:

Myles Straw: there is a real 80 run, 50 steal upside here with a decent batting average - that's pretty huge, but the downside is enormous.
Michael Conforto: If he's healthy, he'll absolutely destroy this draft cost, he's still quite a good hitter.
Andrew Vaughn: Showed a lot of good signs last year but also struggled at times, but still has huge power and batting average upside with his raw ability.
Alex Kirilloff: Hit the ball very hard early on last year, the raw power is huge.

I would be perfectly happy starting many of these guys on a fantasy team, it's a really strong tier late in the draft.

Tier 8

Player			Current Projections
Name	Rank	ADP	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG
Marcell Ozuna	57	201	495	66	25	74	1	.264
Mike Yastrzemski	58	271	535	76	23	68	4	.243
Robbie Grossman	59	185	574	75	16	58	16	.241
Jo Adell	60	238	513	62	20	67	8	.242
Kyle Lewis	61	306	529	62	21	62	6	.244
Charlie Blackmon	62	236	548	72	16	71	3	.278
Anthony Santander	63	251	548	69	27	75	2	.251
Ian Happ	64	190	546	68	25	70	8	.241
Jesus Sanchez	65	234	486	57	20	66	3	.256
Tommy Pham	66	268	520	70	16	56	14	.255
Enrique Hernandez	67	208	577	77	22	68	2	.248
Josh Rojas	68	225	522	64	10	49	10	.248

There's a pretty big step down in terms of upside here. The upside names would be Ozuna, Adell, Sanchez, and Rojas. You could really end up with a bunch of steals in the case of Rojas, and Adell posted one of the highest sprint speeds in the league last year despite not stealing many bases.

The "safe" names would be Yastrzemski and Hernandez, as they should be locked into playing time and have shown pretty solid consistency over the last few years.

Tier 9

Player			Current Projections
Name	Rank	ADP	PA	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG
Raimel Tapia	69	273	495	65	6	44	17	.280
Michael Brantley	70	242	499	65	11	55	2	.291
Harrison Bader	71	229	5414	65	18	59	12	.245
Mark Canha	72	261	560	75	17	62	9	.238
Wil Myers	73	284	526	64	20	66	8	.243
Brandon Nimmo	74	291	526	73	14	50	7	.263

To finish it out, we have some guys with questionable abilities and playing time as well. It feels weird to put Brantley this far down here, but he just gives you so little in homers and steals that it's tough to draft him even with the good batting average. Maybe Bader should be higher up with his steals ability, but I just don't get excited about him and think he'll spend most of the year in the eight spot in the batting order.

Canha and Nimmo would definitely leap up a tier or two if we knew they'd play every day, but at this point, we don't know that, so we have to tread carefully.

And there you have it, my top-74 outfielders! Hope you enjoyed this, happy drafting RotoBallers!

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