Some of you know that my Fantasy League that had been going for 25 years fell apart this year when one of our owners who had been at every draft suffered a fatal heart attack about 6 weeks before the draft was scheduled. Understandably, nobody had the heart to go on with the league.
This has been difficult for me, as that was my favorite hobby. I was like a kid about it, and really still haven't gotten over the loss of the guy and the league.
Anyway, one of the things I did throughout a fantasy season was a nearly constant ranking of players according to their potential fantasy value. And a couple of people here asked me a year or two back if I would ever rank AL players, as my league was all NL, and I never considered the other league.
So just to kill some time this morning while trying to burn through some backlog of podcasts, I decided to rank ever player in both leagues. Here's the current top 50.
1) Josh Hamilton 2) Miguel Cabrera 3) Carlos Gonzalez 4) Carl Crawford 5) Albert Pujols
6) Joey Votto 7) Adrian Beltre
Alex Rios 9) Robinson Cano 10) Delmon Young
11) Scott Podsednik 12) David Wright 13) Vladimir Guerrero 14) Angel Pagan 15) Paul Konerko
16) Ichiro Suzuki 17) Aubrey Huff 18) Nelson Cruz 19) Evan Longoria 20) Adam Wainwright
21) Tori Hunter 22) Ryan Howard 23) Matt Holliday 24) Corey Hart 25) Hanley Ramirez
26) Ryan Braun 27) Jose Bautista 28) Chris B Young 29) Justin Morneau 30) Adam Dunn
31) Roy Halladay 32) Kevin Youkilis 33) Andres Torres 34) Heath Bell 35) Rafael Soriano
36) Billy Wagner 37) Shin-Soo Choo 38) Nick Swisher 39) Rafael Furcal 40) Brett Gardner
41) Ryan Zimmermann 42) Rajai Davis 43) Ricky Weeks 44) Michael Young 45) Brian Wilson
46) Kelly Johnson 47) Ubaldo Jiminez 48) Justin Upton 49) Cliff Lee 50) Juan Pierre
Who am I missing?
