Welcome back, RotoBallers, to my top 250 dynasty fantasy baseball rankings, freshly updated for August 2024. It's been an exciting first few weeks of the 2024 MLB and fantasy baseball season, filled with lots of movement in our dynasty rankings. For those who are not familiar, I will be releasing monthly updates to my fantasy baseball dynasty rankings here on RotoBaller, along with my notes on risers and fallers.
Both the minor leagues and MLB are well underway now, and it is a full go for the 2024 fantasy baseball season! The fun thing about dynasty is you can build your roster however you like. Whether prospect-laden or full of older MLB players in win-now mode, every team can be built differently, which makes the game so fun.
This specific set of rankings can be used for any fantasy format but is more geared toward standard 5x5 roto leagues. We hope that at RotoBaller, we can help you become a champion in both dynasty and redraft formats. You can find my top 250 rankings list here below, but if you want the full top 500 lists for dynasty and prospects, you can check out my website, The Dynasty Dugout.
Jarren Duran took one of the bigger leaps in my rankings this update, moving up 40 spots to 26 overall. I have been more hesitant about pushing Duran up too high, but he continues to perform and is up to 14 home runs and 27 stolen bases on the year to pair with a .292/.349/.506 slash.
Duran is not on pace to hit over .290 for the second straight year while making strides with his power metrics. Maybe the most impressive part of his game is that he has improved his defense as much as he has.
The 27-year-old looks like he is here to stay and belongs in the upper tier of players for fantasy purposes.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. is a player who took a big leap after being traded out of Miami to the Yankees. The move is a massive lineup and ballpark upgrade. I kind of questioned if the fit would work, but so far, things have looked pretty good. In a small sample of nine games, Chisholm has a .922 OPS with four home runs and two stolen bases.
Sure, there is some whiff in the profile, but the contact rate has jumped nearly seven percentage points on the year with the zone contact rate improving by over four percentage points. We know Chisholm can get to power, having a barrel rate that ranks 72nd percentile among all hitters. He is up to 17 home runs on the year paired with 24 stolen bases on the year.
Kyle Schwarber has been as hot as any hitter in baseball and after a three home run performance this week he is now up to 27 home runs on the year with a .261/.390/.504 slash. In OBP formats, Schwarber ranks 11th on the Razzball Player Rater, and even in average leagues, he still ranks as the 27th-best player. Schwarber has performed impressively all year.
We have long known that Schwarber can hit the ball as hard as any player in the game, but this year, the batting average and OBP have improved significantly. He is 31 years old, but there should still be plenty of impact for years to come with his bat.
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Freddy Peralta has been one of the more frustrating arms to roster this year for fantasy. Things were looking quite good out of the gate before struggles and inconsistencies hit. Since the start of July, Peralta has a 4.60 ERA in 31.1 innings pitched with a walk rate north of 10 percent.
His fastball and slider have both taken a step back this year in terms of whiff rates and quality of contact allowed. The changeup looks improved in the swing-and-miss department and also has shown more depth and fading action. It is just a profile that you expect so much more of, and it has not provided a ton of fantasy purposes.
Peralta is still a top-80 dynasty asset, but he did take a little tumble in this rank update.
Evan Carter is another player who took a pretty significant fall. After coming up last year and setting the world on fire in September and in the Rangers post-season run, Carter has missed the majority of 2024 due to a lingering back issue. We have seen injuries ruin a lot of baseball players' careers, and we can only hope that is not the case with Carter.
The talent level is there, but the injury that has lingered has me quite concerned.
Owen Caissie is a prospect who I was probably a little high on that fell some in my rankings. The Cubs 22 year old prospect has had a strong year in Triple-A, but has not set the world on fire. Having a .279/.373/.457 slash is good, but considering the big power upside, he only has 13 home runs in 294 plate appearances.
The concerning thing is that Caissie's contact rate is now below 70 percent on the year and has been trending in the wrong direction for over a month now.
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