It’s cold, the days are short, and baseball is gone. Soon we’ll have white garbage falling from the sky, football will be everywhere, and you’ll probably contemplate ending it all. But hold on, there is hope, while some consider this the offseason, the pros know of this time as the trading season. But who do you want? Rankings haven’t been posted by any major outlet, and they’re likely months away from doing so. Now is a time to reassess your farm, take a long look at your teams’ depth, project your stars, and dream on your up and comers. If you’re a longtime reader of this site, you’re already ahead of the curve, and with that I present my 2018 dynasty prospect rankings.

To answer the one question many will have about Shohei Otani. I am fortunate enough to have seen him a bunch, so I’ll give you a few scenarios.

Option 1) Otani is both a hitter and a pitcher. In the case this happens he is the #1 fantasy prospect.

Option 2) He’s split into two players, hitter and pitcher. This is the likely and grimmer scenario. Any team that wants a two-way player is going to have to transition to a 6-man rotation. This caps his innings severely, as he’ll max out at 27 starts. If he was to pitch 6 innings every start he’d be limited to 162 innings. That’s how many innings German Marquez had… This would make him my #5 prospect as a pitcher because of his capped performance. On the hitting side, he’d likely play 3 of the other 5 days in the cycle, meaning he only plays half the games in the season. That is not exciting, and I would rank the hitting side down at #81, next to players I’m very unsure about even making the majors as starters.

Without further ado, the rankings.

1 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2 Eloy Jimenez 3 Ronald Acuna 4 Victor Robles 5 Brendan Rodgers 6 Gleyber Torres 7 Michael Kopech 8 Francisco Mejia 9 Alex Reyes 10 Fernando Tatis Jr. 11 Bo Bichette 12 Nick Senzel 13 Kyle Tucker 14 Keston Hiura 15 Brent Honeywell 16 Walker Buehler 17 Lewis Brinson 18 Luis Robert 19 Jorge Mateo 20 Willy Adames 21 Austin Meadows 22 Mitch Keller 23 Brendan Mckay 24 Willie Calhoun 25 Franklin Barreto 26 Royce Lewis 27 Estevan Florial 28 Forrest Whitley 29 Sixto Sanchez 30 Hunter Greene 31 AJ Puk 32 Triston McKenzie 33 Kolby Allard 34 Mackenzie Gore 35 Kevin Maitan 36 Leody Taveras 37 Alec Hansen 38 Juan Soto 39 Austin Hays 40 Anthony Alford 41 Taylor Trammell 42 Alex Verdugo 43 Nick Gordon 44 Kyle Wright 45 Luis Urias 46 Jack Flaherty 47 Luiz Gohara 48 Jay Groome 49 Franklin Perez 50 Mike Soroka 51 Michel Baez 52 Cal Quantrill 53 Blake Rutherford 54 Alex Faedo 55 Kyle Lewis 56 Matt Manning 57 Riley Pint 58 Shane Baz 59 Jesus Sanchez 60 Ian Anderson 61 Yadier Alvarez 62 Ryan McMahon 63 Justus Sheffield 64 Dylan Cease 65 Jose Siri 66 Miguel Andujar 67 Monte Harrison 68 Jorge Alfaro 69 Dustin Fowler 70 Adrian Morejon 71 Jesse Winker 72 Austin Beck 73 Chance Adams 74 Luis Ortiz 75 Sandy Alcantara 76 Anderson Espinoza 77 Scott Kingery 78 Jake Bauers 79 Keibert Ruiz 80 Ryan Mountcastle 81 Tyler O’Neill 82 JB Bukauskas 83 Yusniel Diaz 84 Tyler Mahle 85 Seth Romero 86 Beau Burrows 87 Mickey Moniak 88 Jon Duplantier 89 Brent Rooker 90 Pavin Smith 91 Corey Ray 92 Harrison Bader 93 Michael Chavis 94 Joey Wentz 95 Corbin Burnes 96 Carter Kieboom 97 Chance Sisco 98 Andres Munoz 99 Jesus Luzardo 100 Daniel Johnson 101 Jorge Guzman 102 Carson Kelly 103 Adam Haseley 104 JP Crawford 105 Christian Arroyo 106 Jeren Kendall 107 Isan Diaz 108 Jose de Leon 109 Brandon Woodruff 110 Stephen Gonsalves 111 Fernando Romero 112 Aramis Ademan 113 Isaac Paredes 114 David Paulino 115 Wander Javier 116 Freicer Perez 117 Oneil Cruz 118 Yasiel Antuna 119 Albert Abreu 120 Andres Gimenez 121 Heliot Ramos 122 Jo Adell 123 Jahmai Jones 124 Magneuris Sierra 125 Zack Collins

Here are the remaining players I contemplated adding to the list, or at the very least have my attention. They are in the order of their teams

Austin Riley Christian Pache Jomar Reyes DJ Stewart Tanner Houck Oscar de la Cruz Adbert Azolay Alex Lange Carson Fulmer Aristides Aquino Shed Long Tyler Stephenson Bobby Bradley Will Benson Daz Cameron Christin Stewart Colin Moran JD Davis Meibrys Viloria Kyle Zimmer Seuly Matias Mitchell White Starling Heredia Jordan Sheffield Trevor Rogers Mauricio Dubon Jacob Nottingham Fernando Romero Tyler Jay Alex Kirilloff David Peterson Justin Dunn Desmond Lindsay Peter Alonso Domingo Acevedo Clark Schmidt Thairo Estrada Lazaro Armenteros James Kapreilian Dylan Cozens Roman Quinn Jhailyn Ortiz Ke’Bryan Hayes Cole Tucker Kevin Newman Luis Escobar Josh Naylor Jorge Ona Luis Almanzar Christian Arroyo Chris Shaw Evan White Thyago Vierra Dan Vogelbach Devlin Perez Dakota Hudson Wander Franco Josh Lowe Lucius Fox Ronald Guzman Yohander Mendez Bubba Thompson Cole Ragans Hans Crouse Chris Seise TJ Zeuch Richard Urena Erick Fedde Joan Baez Adonis Medina