Rankings/List

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve announced the top 90 players on our 2011 big board.

Click on each player’s name for a more in-depth analysis, including 2011 projections!

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.

It's been said that chicks dig the long ball. In fact, everybody digs the long ball.

That's not to say that baseball fans don't appreciate a pitcher going the distance in a game while striking out 15 batters, but watching someone hack a home run into the summer night is just something that our attention is drawn to.

Unfortunately for fans in many cities, long balls are seen far less frequently than in others.

Although baseball's dark days of syringes and suspicious trainers seem to be behind us, the long ball is still alive and well. There are plenty of guys who make their living going yard and spend their afternoons trotting. 

But if we had to build a team of the league's best sluggers, what would it look like? We wouldn't look solely at a player who's a feast-or-famine hitter, would we? 

You want a guy who can take it deep but isn't always looking for the long ball, even at the expense of his own team. 

Florida Marlins (2010 record: 80-82)

The Marlins finished 2010 with an 80-82 record, in third place in the National League East, and it appears they’re destined to finish the upcoming season in much the same position. They won’t be able to compete with the Philadelphia Phillies and it is unlikely they’ll be able to overtake the Atlanta Braves, but they are quite a bit better than both the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals… so, third place it is.

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.

Our 2011 fantasy baseball projections will be released one-by-one until the top 100 players have been revealed. These rankings consider past achievements, current performance and expected future results based on standard 5×5 H2H settings.

New York Mets (2010 record: 79-83)

The NY Mets had what is widely considered to be the worst offseason among all of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs…maybe it was a case of “lesson learned.”

As Phillies fans, we have all shared times of pain and futility.

If you are unfortunate enough to remember the '84 to '92 years, or more recently, the '94 to '00 seasons, then you've experienced as much heartache as any Phillies fans in history.

Thank goodness, we've been fortunate enough to experience quite a bit of team success on our times as well. 

I began my journey with the Phillies as a six-year-old in 1979, and I've been very lucky to see my team come away with five NL Pennants and two World Series Championships.