2022 Staff Consensus Top-40 Fantasy Baseball First Base Rankings

It’s Fantasy Baseball draft season! While some of us degenerates were drafting back in October and November, now is the time where fantasy baseball drafts really kick into high gear. We here at FantraxHQ have been pumping out a ton of great content all offseason long and are diving head-first into our 2022 Fantrax Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. A big part of any draft kit is the rankings, and we’re continuing our staff consensus rankings for 2022 with our fantasy baseball first base rankings.

Below you’ll find the consensus rankings that 13 of our MLB writers were involved in. Each writer provided anywhere from 40-50 first basemen so we could create our consensus top-35.

The first base position isn’t quite as illustrious today as it was in the Pujols, Teixeira, Miggy days, but there are still plenty of exciting options at the top, led by Vladimir Guerrero Jr and Freddie Freeman. Be careful though, this position gets rather bland in a hurry, so waiting on this position might not be the best idea in 2022. But then again, there’s not a major dropoff from 10 to 20 in the rankings or so.

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2022 Fantasy Baseball First Base Rankings

Meet the Analysts:

EC = Eric Cross
CC = Chris Clegg
LA = Lauren Aurbach
NC = Nic Civale
RK = Ryan Kirksey
RV = Ryan Venancio
MC1= Mike Carter
MC2 = Mick Ciallela
JD = Justin Dunbar
DM = David Mendelson
MG = Michael Govier
MH = Matt Heckman
LK = Logan Kritzeck

Rank	Player	EC	CC	LA	NC	RK	RV	MC1	MC2	JD	DM	MG	MH	LK
1	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
2	Freddie Freeman	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	1	2	2
3	Matt Olson	3	5	5	3	4	5	3	4	3	5	4	3	4
4	Pete Alonso	5	3	4	6	5	3	5	5	4	2	3	4	3
5	Paul Goldschmidt	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	5	5
6	Jose Abreu	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	11	6
7	Kris Bryant	7	7	7	7	11	7	10	7	7	20	11	13	7
8	C.J. Cron	9	13	12	10	7	9	9	10	10	12	13	14	11
9	Jared Walsh	8	8	10	14	8	20	7	11	8	18	6	8	16
10	Joey Votto	15	12	14	9	9	8	12	18	9	13	8	10	9
11	Kyle Schwarber	13	11	15	11	12	11	15	12	11	9	14	9	12
12	Rhys Hoskins	16	15	16	15	13	10	14	16	12	6	10	6	8
13	Jake Cronenworth	10	14	8	19	16	14	13	13	16	10	NR	7	10
14	Ryan Mountcastle	12	16	9	13	10	18	8	9	14	15	12	19	15
15	Josh Bell	14	9	13	20	14	12	11	14	13	19	9	12	14
16	DJ LeMahieu	11	10	11	16	15	15	18	8	15	14	16	17	23
17	Ty France	18	19	17	17	18	19	17	15	17	21	15	24	19
18	Alex Kirilloff	19	23	24	24	24	24	19	20	23	11	23	20	13
19	Trey Mancini	22	22	19	12	23	17	16	21	24	24	21	21	27
20	Anthony Rizzo	25	20	18	23	20	16	20	19	18	26	20	27	18
21	Brandon Belt	21	21	29	26	21	13	23	27	19	28	18	18	24
22	Yuli Gurriel	27	26	21	22	22	27	22	24	22	22	17	22	25
23	Max Muncy	17	17	28	8	17	43	29	17	21	29	40	26	17
24	Nathaniel Lowe	24	28	22	28	27	21	35	28	32	16	26	15	20
25	Andrew Vaughn	29	24	35	31	28	23	24	NR	28	17	29	16	21
26	Frank Schwindel	20	18	25	29	31	29	28	26	29	30	24	31	26
27	Eduardo Escobar	26	30	23	25	19	26	26	22	25	32	25	36	32
28	Luke Voit	32	NR	27	30	NR	32	30	29	27	23	19	25	22
29	Jonathan Schoop	28	32	20	21	25	28	27	23	26	37	34	35	NR
30	Bobby Dalbec	23	25	30	32	26	35	25	25	30	27	27	34	28
31	Jesus Aguilar	34	33	26	18	30	25	21	33	34	35	22	29	34
32	Miguel Sano	31	29	32	27	33	36	32	31	35	34	33	28	31
33	Rowdy Tellez	30	31	31	37	35	31	34	34	36	31	30	23	30
34	Spencer Torkelson	37	27	34	33	40	34	36	30	33	38	37	32	33
35	LaMonte Wade Jr.	33	42	38	35	NR	30	39	32	31	NR	28	37	38
36	Eric Hosmer	42	36	37	NR	34	NR	NR	37	40	39	31	40	NR
37	Yoshi Tsutsugo	35	NR	33	39	39	33	33	35	38	40	45	44	NR
38	Christian Walker	39	35	40	34	NR	NR	NR	43	41	33	41	43	NR
39	Darin Ruf	36	NR	45	NR	NR	40	44	40	43	41	NR	30	36
40	Yandy Diaz	46	34	41	NR	36	NR	42	36	37	45	38	45	NR

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2022 MLB Staff Rankings