2025 Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Preview: This position is eliminated again

You played youth baseball or softball as a kid, right? The best players are almost always shortstop. Oh, they also pitch, third or fourth, and look 2-3 years older than everyone else. But shortstop is the star, the starting point.

Welcome to Fantasy Baseball in 2025. Shortstop is once again the star.

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Note that this is not the only star - people like Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge and Paul Skenes have a word about it. However, three of the top six players in Yahoo ADP are shortstops (if you want to calculate Mookie Betts, hit it to 8), and 11 of the top 90 will cover this position. And, you should have no problem finding interesting shortstop to choose externally 100, or even 200.

This is an interesting area. So, let's have some fun.

He is the number one pick possible. Young star development is not always linear, but we have grown in almost every skill field in its three seasons. This is probably the best lineup around him. Witt wants to play in every game. The 25-year-old season is coming soon. Even if I overpay, I won't end in March, even if my share is not. This game should be fun, right? Does anyone remember the laughter?

He still doesn't know exactly what he is doing, but look at last year:.259-105-25-76-67. Ellie wants to run as much as possible. Cincinnati Parks is an offensive giveaway. Last year, he exceeded expectations of tough metrics, but at least there were mild improvements in walking and strikeouts. If he is within the scope of last year's statistics, then you can make the standard. But we know that 23-year-olds who have super-passed will also get better.

Already a perfect player. OK, he's not as fast as Witt and Elly, because no one is, but he still pieced together 21 steals. I don't know about Baltimore's passive offseason, but the roster is already great. The oriole mercifully readjusted the left field dimension, which always felt like a misleading overcorrection. Henderson was slightly worse at pitching with his left hand. If he continues to improve there, he may be the first overall draft pick in 2026.

This will be the first time I will never take the initiative to draft Bates, and I entered this in melancholy. It's a 32-year-old season. He picked the spots on the base. All the slash counts fell last year, and the Dodgers were basically rehearsing for six months before the real game started. Bates may not have a bad season, but when he turned to the back nine games, I couldn’t imagine the benefits I wanted on his draft pick point.

They say it is impossible to be underrated in New York, but maybe Lindo is eligible. He just has the best OPS+ season and if Shohei Ohtani doesn't damage baseball in Los Angeles, it will win the MVP. The New York squad is probably the deepest 1-9 in the Grand Slam event. Don't you like high floors when they are related to reasonable ascent space? And this simple fantasy truth will never be overlooked: we want star players to be associated with the best offense at their peak. It's as simple as that.

His board hosting metrics are painful, but he hasn't fully utilized his freedom to wave - over the past two years, he has hit .253 and .269. Coors Field is not a cheat code from the past (partial logistics and partly bad roster construction), but Tovar will be first or second slot, so the volume will be his friend. I'm rooting in the mild rise of the stolen bases so we can dream of the Ezequiel 25/17 projection. He is a better fantasy candidate than a real-life batsman, but what? Being a good Roto manager means keeping aware of this gap.

Winn took the lead in early June but never returned it, although his slash was a little worse in the second half. He showed a popularity performance that exceeded my initial rookie season expectations and he was talking about stealing more foundations this year. OK, a lot of players will say in the next two months. But given Wynn’s speed at which he became a professional and that he seems to be doing well in most things (he was also a finalist for Gold Gloves last year), I’m happy to bet on him.

It's a 31-year-old season for Swanson, so we have to let go of our career dreams. But his average over the past four years is .254-85-23-83-14. Did you see something better when you selected 200? The longer I try to play in fantasy sports, I try to build younger teams, but I still care about the occasional Ibañez All-Star, i.e. those boring veterinarians. Swanson qualifies.

The stolen benchmark rod efficiency has decreased, and the Statcast slider is a big deal for Meh. The late-season downgrade may be a wake-up call. The hit average will always tax you until he stops chasing in the count. He is probably too expensive for rounds 1-3.

He has been on underrated pages for years, but ADP is not a giveaway. The park may not seem to have many changes, but please look at the homes column. Of course, when he changes the team, we always worry that first-year players will worry about big contracts. It's not personal, Willy, it's just business. We will be revisiting in 2026.

Volpe's batting slot trajectory opposite Wynn's - Volpe penetrated the lead in April but gave up the mid-season to end in the lowest third year. Every spring, you need to pay too much attention to a handful of players with polarized hitting positions waiting for decisions. It was a 24-year-old season for Volpe, and his story was mostly unwritten. He had less walking time last year, but he did improve his contact rate. Slipped and tilted a little. We know that 25-30 steals can be predicted.

I didn't get out of Volpe because of the candidate's draft, but he doesn't look better than a few players who are cheaper in 2-4 rounds.

*Zach Neto only because of his Off-season shoulder surgery;Finally monitor him.