SportsLine has simulated the entire MLB season and defined the 2024 fantasy baseball sport sleepers.
Now that 2024 MLB Spring Training has begun and the March 28 2024 MLB Opening Day is just over a month away, it’s time to start preparing for your 2024 fantasy baseball draft. It’s been an incredibly involved MLB offseason and the Los Angeles Dodgers have been at the heart of it. The Dodgers paid $700 million to sign ShoheiOhtani, handed another record $325 million deal to bring in Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and traded for/extended Tyler Glasnow for another $136.6 million.
Meanwhile, the New York Yankees also made a blockbuster move by trading for Juan Soto, and managers everywhere are trying to figure out how all these high-profile acquisitions have changed the fantasy landscape. With a reliable set of 2024 fantasy baseball sport rankings, you can figure out exactly where to target those players and also identify potential 2024 fantasy baseball sport sleepers to help round out your roster.
Paredes was somewhat of a one-trick pony despite hitting 20 home runs in just 381 plate appearances in 2022, and his disastrous batting average (.205) made it expensive for anyone to list him in fantasy baseball. However, the model saw through a horrendously unlucky .195 BABIP and predicted he would surpass players going at least six rounds before 2023, such as Anthony Rendon and DJ LeMahieu. The result: Parades .250/.352/.488 with 31 home runs and 98 RBIs and consistently ranks in the top 20 in AL MVP voting. Anyone who followed Modell’s advice and picked up Paredes late in their fantasy baseball drafts would be a huge power addition to their fantasy baseball lineup.
The SportsLine model is engineered by the same people who run the projections for the three major fantasy sites. And that same group is sharing its 2024 fantasy baseball rankings and cheat sheet with SportsLine, helping you find fantasy baseball sleepers, breakouts and busts long before your competition. Their cheat sheets, available for leagues on many major sites, are updated multiple times daily.
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Top 2024 Fantasy baseball sport sleepers
One of the 2024 Fantasy baseball sport sleepers the model is top on: Padres shortstop XanderBogaerts. After a decade in Boston, Bogaerts connected San Diego’s star-studded lineup and got off to a steady start as he adjusted from going from one of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in Fenway Park to the most famoues pitcher-friendly venues in Petco Park. He hit just .253 before the All-Star break after join the season as a career .292 hitter.
Anyway ,Boagerts displayed why he earned a $280 million contract after the Midsummer Classic as his OPS jumped 126 points compared to before. He too projects to have more run-producing opportunities in 2024 as the departure of Juan Soto should grant Bogaerts to move up in the lineup after seeing most of his at-bats in the No. 5 spot a year ago.
One more of the 2024 Fantasy baseball sport sleepers the model advises the targeting: Orioles outfielder Cedric Mullins. The 29-year-old was an All-Star and acquired an OF Silver Slugger award in 2021 by slashing .291/.360/.518 with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases. And while he hasn’t been fully as productive over the last two seasons, his power/speed profile makes him worth a shot in the middle rounds of your upcoming drafts.
Mullins drove in a career-high 74 runs previous year despite passed out of sight 46 games and he also had 15 home runs and 19 stolen bases. His .271 BABIP in 2023 was also 31 points downcast than his career average entering the season, so expect his .233 average to shoot up with some better fortunes on batted balls. Those are large reasons why the model ranks Mullins ahead of Jazz Chisholm and Mike Trout, who are being drafted at least five rounds prior on average. See more sleepers at SportsLine.