2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft – From the Future!

Your time machine just took you to March 20, 2015, where we’re about to hold a 2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft with 12 writers from across the interwebbernet. (That’s what we call it in the future.) Unfortunately, you’re only able to stick around for the first four rounds (because you have to avoid meeting your grandchildren’s grandchildren, who are on their way to this conference room, right now!)

How can this mock draft from the future help you? You’ll get a sneak peek on what we think the best keepers are for the year 2013. (Remember 2013!?! That was awesome. I still can’t believe Adam Sandler won an Academy Award.)

Knowing who the best players are in 2013 is pretty easy – you just think back six months to 2012. But in order to look ahead to 2015, you have to think differently. You have to calculate stats and project numbers and understand physics, depreciation – and Spanish.

You have to be part cyborg.

So a dozen cyborg Fantasy Baseball writers are about to conduct this mock draft for a 12-team, 5×5 Rotisserie league, with the standard lineup: 2 C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, 5 OF, CI, MI, DH and 9 pitchers.

If you look back, you can look forward. Here’s our 2014 Fantasy Football Mock Draft that we held in 2012. I can’t wait to see the Jets trade for Jonathan Stewart! 

2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft Participants

1. Derek VanRiper, RotoWire.com

2. Cory Schwartz, MLB.com

3. David Gonos, DavidGonos.com

4. Nick Raducanu, FantasyTrade411.com

5. Adam Ronis, RotoExperts.com

6. Nicholas Minnix, KFFL.com

7. Nando DiFino, CBSSports.com

8. Eric Mack, SI.com

9. Paul Sporer, BaseballProspectus.com

10. Tim Heaney, KFFL.com

11. Neil Parker, 101FantasyTips.com

12. Jeff Mans, FantasyAlarm.com

Now, put away your computers and enjoy this mock draft. That’s right — where we’re going, we don’t need computers! … Seriously, though, keep your computers. You do, in fact, need them in the future.

2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft

 

ROUND ONE

 

1.01 Bryce Harper, OF, Washington

Derek VanRiper of RotoWire.com

1.02 Mike Trout, OF, L.A. Angels

Cory Schwartz of MLB.com

1.03 Andrew McCutchen, OF, Pittsburgh

David Gonos of DavidGonos.com

1.04 Giancarlo Stanton, OF, Boston

Nick Radacanu of FantasyTrade411.com

1.05 Justin Upton, OF, Atlanta

Adam Ronis of RotoExperts.com

1.06 Miguel Cabrera, 3B, Detroit

Nicholas Minnix of KFFL.com

1.07 Jedd Gyorko, 2B, San Diego

Nando DiFino of CBSSports.com

1.08 Jurickson Profar, SS, Texas

Eric Mack of SportsIllustrated.com

1.09 Jason Heyward, OF, Atlanta

Paul Sporer of BaseballProspectus.com

1.10 Starlin Castro, SS, Chicago Cubs

Tim Heaney of KFFL.com

1.11 Ryan Braun, OF, Milwaukee

Neil Parker of 101FantasyTips.com

1.12 Troy Tulowitzki, SS, Colorado

Jeff Mans of FantasyAlarm.com

 

ROUND TWO

 

2.01 Christian Yelich, OF, Miami

Jeff Mans of FantasyAlarm.com

2.02 Paul Goldschmidt, 1B, Arizona

Neil Parker of 101FantasyTips.com

2.03 Robinson Cano, 2B, N.Y. Yankees

Tim Heaney of KFFL.com

2.04 Yoenis Cespedes, OF, Oakland

Paul Sporer of BaseballProspectus.com

2.05 Stephen Strasburg, SP, Washington

Eric Mack of SportsIllustrated.com

2.06 Jay Bruce, OF, Cincinnati

Nando DiFino of CBSSports.com

2.07 Matt Kemp, OF, L.A. Dodgers

Nicholas Minnix of KFFL.com

2.08 Carlos Gonzalez, OF, Colorado

Adam Ronis of RotoExperts.com

2.09 Joey Votto, 1B, Cincinnati

Nick Radacanu of FantasyTrade411.com

2.10 Evan Longoria, 3B, Tampa Bay

David Gonos of DavidGonos.com

2.11 Brett Lawrie, 3B, Toronto

Cory Schwartz of MLB.com

2.12 Clayton Kershaw, SP, L.A. Dodgers

Derek VanRiper of RotoWire.com

Check out Rounds 3 & 4 of our Future Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft of 2015!

We’ll be posting the picks throughout the day, so check back often. Make sure you follow these guys on Twitter, also. They just might be your only hope of surviving 2015 … Or at least surviving your Fantasy Baseball league because you followed the 2015 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft.