2026 Outfield Tiers! Rankings, ADP, Strategy & More! (1/23 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Let's get into outfield tiers, starting with the First Rounders (3:35)! Will Ronald Acuña get back to running? ... Why is Fernando Tatis Jr. in the elite tier but not first round (17:43)? ... The near-elite tier is a weird one (24:45)! They don't feel like OF1s but they might have to be. ... Why does Scott hate Jackson Merrill (30:58)? ... News (43:20): Taylor Rogers signed a one-year deal with the Twins. ... Kyle Stowers and Brandon Nimmo kick off the fallback options tier (48:44). ... The last resorts tier has a lot of interesting names (1:00:14)!

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0:00.0	Alconra, Syroca, you look so good in Volka,
0:05.0	Peralta, Manoa bounce back for Aeronola,
0:12.0	Gilito, Castillo, Yoshido, Ossook
0:16.0	Vado, value so high but 80p so low, Frank loves hips of kind of Joe.
0:27.1	Now let's get on with the show.
0:30.7	Happy Cocoa Friday and welcome into fantasy baseball today on January 23rd.
0:37.9	I am Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White and Chris Towers.
0:41.3	Today on the show, we are talking outfield tiers unless we get a Mets trade.
0:46.4	I mean, it's, it would be the third night in a row.
0:48.9	I don't think anything has happened yet, but because I just said that, I'm sure something crazy will come down. But not yet, as of now. We did get another trade. Actually, I just, no. Uh-oh, whoa, don't do that. McKenzie Gore was traded over to the Texas Rangers. Chris and I did an emergency podcast for that, so be sure to check it out if you are interested in hearing our thoughts on McKenzie Gore. But with that,
1:12.3	a lot of outfielders to talk about, a lot of tiers to talk about. So let's jump in a short podcast.
1:16.2	Right in. And we will mention utility only players along the way. Scott doesn't do just tiers for
1:22.9	Util Only players. There's like 10 of them, so that doesn't make sense. So we'll just mention them
1:26.9	along the way here. The first rounders tier. Not all of them, so that doesn't make sense. So we'll just mention them along the way here.
1:28.2	The first rounders tier.
1:30.0	Not all of them are here, I should point out.
1:33.6	I include the DH-only players, or Util-only, as you say.
1:38.5	I include them at the position where they'd be most likely to gain eligibility, however
1:43.3	unlikely that is. So Bryce Eldridge, I tiered at first base. Ivan Herrera, I tiered at Catcher. But the majority of the DH-only guys will be in the outfield here. I miss those names. Well, I guess we didn't do Catcher Tears, but... Yeah, I brought up Eldridge on the first base one. You know what? I should have been listening. All right, let's talk first rounders. Aaron Judge, Shohei Otani, who, again, it's Utah only. Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Ronald de Cunia, Corbyn Carroll, and Julio Rodriguez. Rodriguez, by the way, is one tier lower in headded points.
2:18.1	And I will also mention Kyle Schwerber is part of this tier,
2:21.3	but he would be one tier lower in roto or categories.
2:24.5	Again, Otani and Schwerber, they're util only.
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