Four points and seventeen hundred posts ago my Fordfathers said, “Stop calling us Fordfathers, you idiot, they’re ancestors.” In order to form a more perfect ranking system for fantasy baseball, we stopped ranking fantasy baseball and simply said, “Ef, let’s just let Gray rank Mr. So-and-so 500 or so.” Or, more briefly, the 2026 fantasy baseball top 500. A few years ago the top 500 was only a top 300 for fantasy baseball. Before that, it was 16 AD and I was drafting in one-man leagues because no one knew fantasy baseball or baseball. In a few years this will be a top 10,000 and I’m going to name Ronald Acuña Jr. Jr. Jr. arrange. Today, in this year, Twenty-five after Twenty, comes the 2026 fantasy baseball top 500. Or as I like to call it, “Did he really rank Mr. So-and-so ahead of Mr. So-and-so Jr.?” If Mr. So-and-so Jr. would stop chasing fields in the mud, I might have put him ahead of Mr. So-and-so. This message is not intended to send shockwaves through your system. That is what the pipe cleaner that the doctor uses to remove the clogged earwax from your ears is for. This is just to give you an idea of where guys rank in relation to other positions. That is, you know I like Ceddanne Rafaela better than Teoscar Hernandez, according to the top 40 outfielders, but do I like Ceddanne better than Matt Chapman? Okay, it’s not that simple. You should read the blurbs for all players, but this top 500 should give you an idea. You will notice that after the top 200 the positions start to look similar. I may be the only fantasy baseball player to tell you this, but it doesn’t matter where, say, David Peterson lines up against Wilyer Abreu. If you need a starter, Abreu won’t help you. He could be 50 spots ahead of Peterson and it wouldn’t matter. That’s why I broke down the 2026 fantasy baseball rankings by positions. If you need a first baseman, Alec Burleson vs. Yandy Diaz matters, but where Burleson stands compared to Robbie Ray doesn’t really matter. There are also no comments about players in this top 500, which you should know before you start drafting. In other words, Carlos Rodon may be ranked 200th overall, but should I draft him? Well, you would know that if you read my top 60 fantasy baseball starters of 2026. There’s also a 2026 fantasy baseball top 100 to help you out.
There’s our online War Room, which can be downloaded, and it comes free with Razzball subscriptions. Finally, we announce the start of the RCLs on Monday. It’s free to register and there are prizes to be won, because why not, it’s not my money! [finger to earbud] I hear it’s my money, hmm.
And where I had previously left out the free agent projections, I filled in those projections here because it got confusing for me with open spaces. All free agent predictions are based on neutral parks or best guesses as to where they will end up. They are clearly temporary projections. Anyway, here are the 2026 fantasy baseball top 500:
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