As fantasy baseball managers prepare for their 2025 drafts, many are asking, "How many Los Angeles Dodgers can I fit on my team?"
Rest assured, you will have plenty of chances to nab a fantasy-relevant player from their stacked roster, but don’t forget about the other 29 clubs. The mid-to-late rounds are just as important as the top — and is where leagues can be won or lost.
Below are five players throughout the board who hold prime value at their average draft position (ADP) to help fantasy managers fill out their rosters at every stage of the rankings.
(*ADP subject to change)
Brent Rooker, DH, Athletics
ADP: 61.8
Rooker entered last year with a 1.5 career fWAR across 796 MLB plate appearances, but had quietly clubbed 30 home runs for the league-worst A’s (50-112) in 2023, his first full season.
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He cranked the dial in 2024, finishing tied for fifth in home runs across the majors with 39 and posted an impressive 5.1 fWAR season. Securing a five-year, $60-million contract extension in the process.
Projection models predict he will slug again come the end of March, with most agreeing he will finish top-five in home runs, and top-10 in wRC+ — bringing tons of fantasy impact from a player with DH-only position eligibility.
Rooker is your quintessential big hacker: he comes to the plate with a particular goal in mind — mash the baseball, and hard. During last year’s breakout, he was fourth in barrel percentage at 16.6, and 14th in hard-hit percentage at 49.6.
The 30-year-old is a steal at this current ADP; he’s ninth in home runs (69) and 12th in wRC+ (147) over the past two seasons, and don’t forget the Athletics are moving out of the hitters' nightmare that is Oakland Coliseum.
ADP: 69.6
There are three Nationals — all under 25 — that every fantasy player should be keeping tabs on, including CJ Abrams and Dylan Crews, but the most inviting at their current value is Wood.
The six-foot-seven outfielder was acquired by the Nationals, along with Abrams, in the blockbuster deal that sent Juan Soto to the San Diego Padres at the 2022 trade deadline.
Wood enters this season a breakout candidate following his 120 wRC+ performance in 336 MLB plate appearances after his first call-up last July.
The 22-year-old’s minor-league career backs the hype, with 51 home runs and a .941 OPS over 1229 plate appearances in the two systems. The lefty is projecting for a 20-homer, 20-steal season, along with a wRC+ on par with his first stint in the majors.
Slotting atop their refined lineup for a full year will allow for more growth and with an ADP of 69.4, it could end in quite the bargain for both points and category formats.
Riley Greene, OF/DH, Detroit Tigers
ADP: 106.4
After making his first All-Star appearance in 2024, Greene is another young outfielder poised for an impactful run.
Coming off the board near the century mark, it is worth taking a flyer on the lefty who finished tied for 19th in the majors last season with a 135 wRC+ and crushed a career-high 24 home runs.
He is striking out less, and last year's 13.4 per cent barrel rate is proof he can square up major-league pitching on a consistent basis. The improved approach led to a 46.2 hard-hit percentage, ranking higher than both New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso and Cincinnati Reds star Elly de la Cruz in 2024.
The fifth-overall pick in 2019 has made 400 plate appearances in each of his first three seasons, despite missing time with minor injuries, including 23 days on the injured list with a hamstring issue last summer.
A full year’s worth of plate appearances from Greene could lead to the breakout of a top-30 fantasy player.
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ADP: 132.0
For a long time this off-season, it was a mystery where Flaherty would end up as the free agent market took shape. He went from the Tigers to the Dodgers as a rental at last year’s trade deadline, and earned himself a World Series ring.
However, he wound up as one of the last pitchers to sign heading into camp this spring, steering back to the Motor City on a two-year, $35-million pact.
Why Flaherty is drafting so low is likely the same reason he took so long to ink a deal in free agency, his injury history is nothing to scoff at. But after a stretch of poor health, he has broken 140 innings the past two seasons, and has stayed off the injured-reserve in that span.
The 34th-overall pick in 2014 has a swing-and-miss repertoire, finishing third overall in whiff percentage at 32.1 and held a strikeout rate of 29.9 per cent, seventh best in baseball.
A high-end No. 2 pitcher who's slated to follow Tarik Skubal in the Tigers rotation should be picking up more love in earlier rounds. He owns the potential to contribute more than 200 strikeouts to a fantasy roster.
ADP: 171.4
At first glance, Pfaadt’s inflated 4.71 ERA across 181.2 innings is not exactly enticing to fantasy drafters, but the underlying numbers tell a different story.
He held a 1.10 difference between his ERA and FIP (3.61), the third largest in all of the majors, suggesting he was extremely unlucky over the course of the season. He also had an xERA of 3.78 and finished as one of the better arms in the league in limiting walks.
The 26-year-old righty is one of 11 pitchers in 2024 to record more than 180 strikeouts and innings pitched, joining a list including top-end fantasy aces such as Skubal, Zack Wheeler and Corbin Burnes.
As Pfaadt battles it out in camp for the final rotation spot in Arizona with Jordan Montgomery and Ryne Nelson, an end-of-draft pickup is low-risk, high-reward move at this spot of the board.
