2026 Fantasy Baseball Top 300: Corbin Carroll joins top 10, David Bednar and Trevor Megill tumble

2026 Fantasy Baseball Top 300: Corbin Carroll joins top 10, David Bednar and Trevor Megill tumble

Here's the second regular-season update to our overall rest-of-season Top 300. Expect this space to be updated every Monday. Players are ranked for 5x5 mixed leagues using a one-catcher format. I include the mixed-league disclaimer because I do reward upside, particularly past the top 200 or so.

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2026 Fantasy Baseball Top 300 overall ranks

**Updated April 13**

April 13 Notes

Falling off: Joe Musgrove (No. 186), Robert Garcia (No. 223), Cade Horton (No. 265), Will Benson (No. 267), Jonathan India (No. 269), Jake McCarthy (No. 270), Tyler O'Neill (No. 282), Mark Leiter Jr. (No. 285), Lenyn Sosa (No. 286), Bryan Abreu (No. 289), Noah Cameron (No. 292)

• I spent all week kicking myself for not having Jordan Walker on last week's list. I intended to. Then it occurred to be that I might not have actually done so. And I hadn't.

Walker was briefly on the preseason list, peaking at No. 294 before being thoroughly outperformed by prospect Joshua Báez at the beginning of the spring. I considered him putting back on at the end of the spring after Lars Nootbaar was placed on the 60-day IL but didn't find room for him then. I'm still not at all convinced that Walker is ready to settle in as the superstar it looked like he'd become a few years ago, but it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility. He's always hit the ball harder than most, but this seems different. He's No. 129 for now.

• I was higher than most on Vinnie Pasquantino prior to the season, but something very concerning is going on there at the moment. Through 16 games, he's batting .153 with one extra-base hit. Worse, his average swing speed has dropped from 72.5 mph to 69.4. Last year, he reached the 75-mph mark on 26.4% of his swings. Nearly twice per game. This year, he's done it once. Not per game. Once in 105 swings. If he doesn't get that back, it's going to be a very long year.

• In looking at the Padres’ rather oddly constructed position player roster a couple of weeks ago, I just kind of figured that Ty France was going to have to play second base if Jake Cronenworth or Xander Bogaerts needed to leave a game at some point. Nope. Fernando Tatis Jr. made his first two career starts there over the weekend, opening up the possibility that he’ll get at least five-game eligibility at some point. That would move him a couple of spots on the list.

• David Bednar's velocity was down all spring, but it seemed like it would be fine when he was back up to 96.3 mph on average with his fastball in his first two regular-season appearances. Instead, he's been below 96 mph five outings in a row and was all of the way down to 94.3 mph on Saturday. That's nearly three mph off his 2024 and '25 average. He's allowed four earned runs in 6 2/3 innings with a 22.9% strikeout rate that's well off his career mark of 29.5%. I'm concerned enough to have dropped him about 20 spots this week, though not yet so much that I added a second Yankees reliever (it'd probably be Fernando Cruz at this point) to the top 300.

• Now that he's gained catcher eligibility in five-game leagues, Iván Herrera jumps from 98th to 82nd. He's not off to a great start offensively, but I'm not seeing much reason for concern. He's my No. 3 backstop.

• If Abner Uribe looked like he did last year, Trevor Megill would probably be in some serious trouble as the Brewers' closer right now. Uribe, though, is scuffling some with his velocity down about 1.5 mph from last year. Megill's is down a tad more, and he's given up five earned runs in four innings. I'm dropping Megill about 25 spots this week, but not giving Uribe much of a bump. If Megill continues to scuffle, it might turn into a committee.

• The Rangers' Cole Winn got the final RP spot over the Rays' Bryan Baker. Of the two, Baker is the better bet for the next couple of weeks, but Wynn would seem to have the superior chance of racking up 20+ saves on the season.

April 6 Notes

Falling off: Andrew Vaughn (No. 155), Jordan Lawlar (No. 203), Carlos Estévez (No. 226), Cody Ponce (No. 240), Christopher Morel (No. 252), Aaron Nola (No. 253), Robert Suarez (No. 281), Victor Scott II (No. 284), Kyle Manzardo (No. 288), Max Meyer (No. 289), José Caballero (No. 294), Nolan Arenado (No. 295), Ryan Nelson (No. 298)

• No real changes up top just yet. I don’t love that José Ramírez’s bat speed is down and strikeouts are up, but the Guardians did open up in Seattle and Los Angeles, making slow starts understandable (and Chase DeLauter’s exceptional one even more impressive). Yordan Alvarez has joined the top 20, even with the increased injury risk from him playing more in the outfield. It really feels like a top-three AL MVP finish is on the way if he plays in 150 games. I did drop Nick Kurtz from No. 16 to No. 20, which could look like a bad call a few weeks from now. There was plenty in the AL Rookie of the Year's numbers last season to suggest that he was quite fortunate to finish at .290/.383/.619, but at the same time, he was a 22-year-old in his first full pro season, and he was going to continue to benefit from a terrific hitting environment in Sacramento. So, we’ll see. The power production still figures to be excellent, but my projection of a .268/.370/.552 line might have been a little optimistic.

• My first thought here was to drop Griffin Jax from No. 110 into the 150s, but then I went back and… you know what, I still really believe in Griffin Jax. It was assumed going in that the Rays wouldn’t treat him as a true closer, and they’re probably not going to reevaluate that any time soon with the start he’s gotten off to. Jax, though, still has his velocity, and he’ll figure out his issues with his slider. He’s likely to be one of the AL’s best relievers, and if the chances of him finishing with 25-30 saves have diminished, he’s still likely to be a big asset with 15-20 saves and seven or eight wins.

• Noelvi Marte, on the other hand… that’s on the short list of the wackiest early season situations I can remember. Although he’s a right-handed hitter, Marte struggled mightily against lefties last season, to the point at which the Reds said before the spring they couldn’t continue batting him second in between the left-handed TJ Friedl and switch-hitter Elly De La Cruz, who is much better against right-handers. It suggested that they really thought he’d continue to be worse against left-handers than righties. And now what have they done since? They’re platooning him against left-handers! Marte has played all three times they’ve faced left-handers and twice in six games against righties. He hasn’t started back-to-back games at any point. Marte was the team’s second-best hitter (behind De La Cruz) against righties last year, coming in at .275/.305/.516, and now he has five at-bats against them this year. On Sunday, he started against right-hander Jack Leiter, went 1-for-2 and then was lifted for a pinch-hitter against another righty. It’s truly bizarre. The Reds have two decent choices at this point: they can commit to Marte as a regular or they can send him down and bring up to fill the role that Marte is terribly ill-equipped for. I’d rather they choose the former, and I think Marte will be quite useful in mixed leagues if it happens. But just carrying on like this doesn’t make any sense.