Trying to catch all in a dynasty league is always a bit of a mission, because most dynasty leagues have so many unique formats, but this is what I’m going to attempt to do in this article. I’m going to try to provide you with my eleven (going around the horn) biggest SELL calls across all formats of fantasy baseball for dynasty leagues. If you have any specific dynasty questions, please feel free to ask me on X @fantasyaceball. Please subscribe to the Fantasy Aceball Podcast and my YouTube channel TheTimkanak to follow along with all of my fantasy baseball content.
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11 Dynasty Fantasy Baseball Players to Sell
1. C Sean Murphy (Braves)
Murphy went from playing 148 games for Oakland to playing only 108 games, splitting time with Travis d’Arnaud. He’s gone now, but Drake Baldwin will slide right in and probably eat up the same playing time as d’Arnaud – if not more. Since July 1st, 2023 Sean Murphy has a .193/.305/.360 slash with an over 50% groundball rate. On the flip side, he also ran a .219 BABIP over this period, but he turned 30 years old and this is not the way to begin the backside of your career.
2. 1B Spencer Torkelson (Tigers)
There are rumors the Tigers are shopping Spencer Torkelson and that Colt Keith is going to slide over to 1B after the Tigers signed Gleyber Torres. Torkelson had a rough first half in 2023 and a killer second half where he smoked a bunch of homers and looked to be back on track, but he was atrocious in 2024 with a .219/.295/.374 slash and only 10 homers in 92 games. He’s still only going to be 25 years old next year and it’s possible a change of scenery will be beneficial for him, but I’m so far down on him at this point I’m picking prospects over him in my dynasty rankings.
3. 2B Ozzie Albies (Braves)
Albies has run an under .260 batting average in three of the last four seasons. He’s missed significant time in two of the last four seasons. He’s stolen 20 bags in only one season of his career (exactly 20). He’s had an under .165 ISO in two of the last four seasons. Albies is 28 years old now and is not as consistent a player as most make him out to be, you’re better off spending your money or draft picks on other assets. The value is too high if people are drafting him like a top 3-5 dynasty 2B.
4. SS Trea Turner (Phillies)
Turner is a primary speed guy entering his age-32 season. Turner’s chase and swinging strike rate keep increasing while the speed and power are decreasing. Turner only had 19 steals in 2024 over 121 games and has not had a .200 ISO since 2021. He’s still a valuable player short-term (the next 2-3 years), but I would not be buying long-term at this point. I would be very shocked if we do not have a cliff season from him in the next few years.
5. 3B Josh Jung (Rangers)
Josh Jung can’t stay on the field; the dude has only played 194 games in three career seasons. Jung’s EV numbers all decreased in 2024 as he only had a .157 ISO and 86.2 average EV when healthy. He also has terrible plate skills with a career 5.2 BB% against a 29.6 K%. He’s basically an average player and at 27 years old the power ceiling he once had is tampered a bit by injuries and bad plate skills.
6. OF #1 Luis Robert Jr. (White Sox)
Robert is incredibly volatile because his plate skills are near Javier Baez levels. The dude is constantly running more than 40% chase rates (43.4% career) and has a 17.5% career SwStr%. These types of plate skills all age very poorly, so he’s basically all tools unless he gets traded to a good team with a good hitting coach, but the longer it takes for this to happen the more unlikely he will fix these issues before it’s too late for him. He’s going into his age 27 season coming off a .224 batting average on a terrible team and his ISO dropped to .155 last season on top of it.
7. OF #2 Evan Carter (Rangers)
Carter had definitely outplayed his skillset in his 2023 small sample size (23 games), but he ran into a ton of problems in 2024 not only facing a massive platoon split but also just playing much worse. Carter missed some time due to injury but hit .111/.172/.111 against lefties in 2024 and only had 27 ABs against lefties in 45 games played – showing the team is obviously steering him away from lefties entirely. This is not good that at 22 years old, he’s already in a massive platoon. His average EV decreased from 89 to 86 in 2024, while he also has what I like to call Edouard Julien disease where he only had a 58.1 Z-Swing% leading to a ton of strikeouts on called pitches (26.5 K%). Carter projects out as a 15/10 platoon hitter who is not aggressive enough and he is starting to remind me of Dylan Carlson.
8. OF #3 Adolis Garcia (Rangers)
Garcia is entering his age 32 season and has a highly volatile plate skills profile like Robert, but he is also losing a step which is reducing both his BABIP and in turn his batting average. His BABIP decreased from .309 in 2022 to .280 in 2023 and .273 in 2024 with only 20 steals over the last two seasons. I doubt the power goes anywhere, but with the speed and batting average decreasing as soon as the bat speed is gone, he falls off a cliff.
9. SP #1 Tyler Glasnow (Dodgers)
Glasnow is entering his age 30 season with a season-high 134 innings pitched in his career. The Dodgers also just built some ridiculous rotation depth, so this innings ceiling isn’t likely to change much. Glasnow’s home run rate jacked up to 1.2 for every 9 innings in his final ten starts with a 4.05 ERA. There might not be anything to that, because the K-BB% was still insane, but the innings will always cap his potential and it’s not likely to change much.
10. SP #2 Freddy Peralta (Brewers)
Peralta’s slider lost a touch in 2024 as the Stuff+ on it dropped below 100 and he set a career low on his CSW% in 2024 with a below-average 27%. He’s also been giving up more bombs the last two seasons, so going into his age 29 season, it appears Peralta has fallen back from a top 20-30 starter to only a top 60-ish starter with down trends rather than up trends behind his sails.
11. SP #3 Bobby Miller (Dodgers)
Miller was obviously terrible in 2024 and I was all in on him, so you might think he would be in the buy column, except he’s getting buried by the Dodgers as they keep adding more and more guys. He’s not going to round out if he can’t get regular playing time and might get pushed to the bullpen pending a trade. The biggest issue for Bobby Miller coming up was always command and in 2024 we saw his walk rate nearly double while his f-strike% dropped about 10% from very good in 2023 to very bad in 2024. The Stuff+ metrics still like his stuff, but looking backward he only had an 11.3 SwStr% in his successful 2023 campaign, so this should have tipped us off that he might have some pitch mix issues when the stuff isn’t lining up with strikeouts Unfortunately, I’m out unless he’s traded.
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