I gathered 11 of the industry’s finest to join me in this 2017 Fantasy Baseball mock draft, and they’re going to share their expertise with each pick. Who knows what 2017 holds for any of us, much less our Fantasy Baseball drafts!?!
We could be driving around in hovercrafts, eating Soylent Green and watching Netflix streaming through our eyelids!
Rather than just look at what next year’s draft might hold, we decided to shoot ahead TWO years, to really give keeper-league and dynasty-league owners a great idea of what’s coming down the pike from a Fantasy Baseball perspective.
A couple years ago, in 2013, I ran a similar mock draft of the future — for 2015, actually. The draft itself was a ton of fun, and there were some really interesting picks!
Three of the consensus top-four picks were correct for this season! However, there were also a few misses … remember that guy, Jurickson Profar? … He’s awesome.
I’d have to say, though, that the most prescient picks went to Jeff Mans of FantasyAlarm.com, as he chose 1.12 Troy Tulowitzki, 2.01 Christian Yelich, 3.12 Matt Wieters and 4.01 Jose Abreu.
This year, we’re going four rounds deep, once again. And while some of the top talent has shifted in the past couple seasons, with more Cubans entering the fray (hello, Abreu), we’ve also seen more aging veterans slipping (goodbye, Justin Verlander).
This 2017 Fantasy Baseball mock draft of the future is just four rounds, and it’s for a standard mixed Rotisserie league, with standard 5×5 scoring, 12 teams, and a two-catcher starting lineup. Each writer was asked to tweet a sentence or two of analysis for each pick, so you’ll get to see the thinking behind each selection.
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