Fantasy Baseball Rankings 2022: Best sleepers from proven computer model that nailed Franmil Reyes’ big year

In the three seasons prior to the COVID-shortened 2020 MLB season, Adam Frazier had average batting splits of .277/.340/.421. After an underwhelming 58 games in 2020, he found his rhythm in the batter’s box last season, and set career-highs in batting average (.305), hits (176) and doubles (36) as part of his first All-Star season. While power numbers attract the most attention, finding players who will provide consistent production can be crucial to a successful Fantasy baseball draft.

A reliable set of 2022 Fantasy baseball rankings will help you identify up-and-coming players who can provide the most value to your Fantasy rosters. Most MLB clubs will play seven-or-eight fewer spring training games than last season, so the opportunity to pick out those rising stars is more narrow than usual. Before going on the clock, be sure to see the 2022 Fantasy baseball rankings and cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine.

Last season, SportsLine’s Projection Model identified several top Fantasy baseball sleepers, breakouts and busts, including Guardians designated hitter Franmil Reyes.

Reyes had a 2021 Fantasy baseball ADP outside the top 200 but the model predicted that he’d outperform that draft position. The result: Reyes hit 30 home runs and drove in 85 in 115 games for Cleveland and slashed .254/.324/.522 for an OPS+ of 127. Anybody who followed its advice and picked up Reyes late in their Fantasy baseball drafts received a huge power boost in their Fantasy baseball lineups.

The SportsLine model is engineered by the same people who powered projections for all three major Fantasy sites. And that same group is sharing its 2022 Fantasy baseball rankings and cheat sheets over at SportsLine, helping you find Fantasy baseball sleepers, breakouts and busts long before your competition. Their cheat sheets, available for leagues on many major sites, are updated multiple times every day.

Any time more MLB news comes out about the updated 2022 MLB schedule, free agency signings or Fantasy baseball injuries, the team at SportsLine updates its projections. Go to SportsLine now to see these proven Fantasy baseball cheat sheets.

Top 2022 Fantasy baseball sleepers

One of the 2022 Fantasy baseball sleepers the model is projecting: Padres right fielder Wil Myers. Most of San Diego’s moves in free agency this offseason involved its pitching staff and bullpen, but the Padres let outfielder Tommy Pham move on to Cincinnati. San Diego also traded three promising players to bring over Frazier from Pittsburgh last season.

The Padres are banking on Myers to get back to the level of production he flashed in 2020, when he hit 15 home runs and 40 RBI in just 55 games. Last season, Myers regressed and hit just 17 home runs with 63 RBI in 146 games. The Giants made wholesale pitching changes this season, while the two weakest pitching staff in the NL West from last year, Arizona and Colorado, only made minor offseason adjustments. Keyed by successful hitting against division opponents, Myers should bounce back offensively, which is why the model believes he’ll return better season-long value than others like Dylan Carlson, Hunter Renfroe and Alex Kirilloff, who are all currently being drafted higher than him.

SportsLine’s Fantasy baseball rankings 2022 are also high on Reyes as a sleeper again. At 6-foot-5 and 265 pounds, Reyes is one of the most imposing hitters in baseball and he predictably generates massive power with that swing. Last season, Reyes was in the 89th percentile of MLB hitters in average exit velocity (92.0) and the 94th percentile in max exit velocity (114.9).

And because he improved his fly-ball rate from 19.7 percent to 25.0 percent from 2021 to 2022, he was able to capitalize on that power and raise his slugging percentage by 72 points (.450 to .522). Reyes his 30 home runs and drove in a career-high 85 runs, and he’ll be in line for more at-bats with the universal DH rule taking effect and keeping Reyes from losing at-bats during interleague play. That’s a big reason why the model ranks Reyes ahead of Yordan Alvarez and Shohei Ohtani (hitter), who are being drafted at least seven rounds earlier on average.

How to find proven 2022 Fantasy baseball rankings

SportsLine is also high on a surprising starting pitcher who lands in the top five of its positional rankings. This player is barely going off the board in the top 100 picks, but is projected to outperform starters such as Julio Urias, Max Scherzer and Lucas Giolito. This pick could be the difference in winning your league or going home with nothing. You can only see who it is here.

So which 2022 Fantasy sleepers should you target in your upcoming drafts? Visit SportsLine now to get 2022 Fantasy baseball rankings for every single position, all from the model that called Franmil Reyes’ big season, and find out.