Tell me this isn’t the most American thing you’ve ever heard. I sit mere miles from Cooperstown, NY, sipping an American made brew, working away on the final stretches of my Mid-Season Top 100 Prospects for Fantasy Baseball, while fireworks crackle overhead. The smell of beer and lawn clippings fill the air, and I just cooked some bacon on the barrel of my rifle. The last sentence was complete bullshizz, but the part before it is fairly accurate. I mean I’m not enough of a tool that I would sit in the yard with my laptop writing. But I am enough of a tool that I was formulating what I would type, once the pack of wild animals I affectionately call my children decide to finally retire to their beds for the evening. Well, the time has come and here I am writing to you, and you alone. Without anymore rambling incoherent non-sense, allow me to introduce the Top 100 Prospects Fantasy Baseball. This list is built with an eye to the future, in other words my goal is for this list to be more reflective of a pre-season 2017 list than the pre-season 2016 lists. I went bold, and I avoided the boring. Meaning I have no use for your Julio Urias’, your Lucas Giolito’s, A.J. Reed’s, Cody Reed’s and the like. You know those guys, they’re playing in the bigs, at this point they’re A. owned in your dynasty or B. owned in your redraft league so C. they’re owned. You thought I was going to say there’s no C right? What do I look like Grey? Nope I’m much taller and my facial hair is more Don Johnson than John Oates.

The list below is the product of much debate and deliberation amongst myself, and a few of my trusted Razz-universe colleagues, Yes Cheese and J-FOH to be exact. Both are in a couple of dynasty leagues with me and bring unique perspective to the table. So I’d be remiss to not employ such solid dynasty minds to advise me on my mid-season magnum opus. They pushed me over the edge on a few highly ranked players, dropped me down on others, and slapped me upside the head with those I neglected to include. Keep in mind, though proximity might give a player a bump, it’s not everything. I like hitting over pitching, power over speed, and if you have both power and speed you too get a bump. (I feel like Prospector Oprah, EVERRRYYYONNNNEEE GETS A BUMP!!!) Pitching is starting slanted, and K/9 focused, so the Tyler Beede’s of the world gotta sit on the sidelines. I’m not going to give you wordy descriptions of all these guys, because who’s got time for that, and I’ve already written about all of them. If you have questions, concerns, comments, or nude pictures of your’s or someone else’s girlfriend feel free to share.

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