2011 Fantasy Baseball Outfield Rankings Outlook: Outfield has it all, speed, power, batting for average and can either determine your team or be a great supplement to it. If you choose to draft outfielders early you can get studs like Gonzalez and Braun that will give your team a big boost in the power departments or a speed guy like Crawford who will get you bags and runs with a little power mixed in.

Holliday, Kemp, and Hamilton are all nice options as well filling up the stat sheet while Choo is almost a lock to be have another 20/20 season while batting over 300. Of course drafting outfield early might leave you a little thin at the infield positions so you will have to ensure to pick wisely in the middle rounds.

If you decide to pass on the huge numbers these outfielders will provide your team and draft your pitchers and infield first, that is a perfectly fine plan. You can supplement your team with middle round values like Chris Young, Jay Bruce for a little power or Ellsbury to get some of those speed categories. Either way it is always worth to try and grab a few outfielders with a ton of upside in the later rounds. Drew Stubbs and Mike Stanton are two of those guys.

Draft-Day Advice: Outfielders can cover up any holes you team might have or be the corner pieces to your roster but one thing is certainly you will need quality outfielders to win your championship.

The following are our 2011 Fantasy Baseball Rankings, which are based on standard 5×5 scoring and take into account projected stats as well as upside and risk. Offensive categories include BA, HRs, Runs, RBIs, and SBs. Pitching categories are Wins, ERA, WHIP, Ks, and Saves. Although several players are eligible at multiple positions, they are listed at the position that they will most likely play the most in 2011. All leagues have different position eligibility requirements so be sure to check your settings before draft day.

2011 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | SP | RP | Draft Day Cheatsheet

Tier	Rank	Player	Tm	AB	H	AVG	HR	R	RBI	SB
1	1	Carlos Gonzalez	COL	587	197	0.336	34	111	117	26
1	2	Ryan Braun	MLW	619	188	0.304	25	101	103	14
1	3	Carl Crawford	BOS	600	184	0.307	19	110	90	47
2	4	Matt Holliday	STL	596	186	0.312	28	95	103	9
2	5	Matt Kemp	LA	602	150	0.249	28	82	89	19
2	6	Josh Hamilton	TEX	518	186	0.359	32	95	100	8
2	7	Shin-Soo Choo	CLE	550	165	0.3	22	81	90	22
3	8	Nelson Cruz	TEX	399	127	0.318	22	60	78	17
3	9	Andrew McCutchen	PIT	570	163	0.286	16	94	56	33
3	10	Hunter Pence	HOU	614	173	0.282	25	93	91	18
4	11	Justin Upton	ARZ	495	135	0.273	17	73	69	18
3	12	Ichiro Suzuki	SEA	680	214	0.315	6	74	43	42
4	13	Jason Heyward	ATL	520	144	0.277	18	83	72	11
4	14	Chris Young	ARZ	584	150	0.257	27	94	91	28
4	15	Alex Rios	CWS	567	161	0.284	21	89	88	34
4	16	B.J. Upton	TB	536	127	0.237	18	89	62	42
4	17	Jacoby Ellsbury	BOS	78	15	0.192	0	10	5	7
5	18	Jay Bruce	CIN	509	143	0.281	25	80	70	5
5	19	Jayson Werth	WAS	554	164	0.296	27	106	85	13
5	20	Colby Rasmus	STL	464	128	0.276	23	85	66	12
5	21	Delmon Young	MIN	570	170	0.298	21	77	112	5
5	22	Mike Stanton	FLA	359	93	0.259	22	45	59	5
5	23	Andre Ethier	LA	517	151	0.292	23	71	82	2
6	24	Brett Gardner	NYY	477	132	0.277	5	97	47	47
6	25	Curtis Granderson	NYY	466	115	0.247	24	76	67	12
6	26	Drew Stubbs	CIN	514	131	0.255	22	91	77	30
6	27	Juan Pierre	CWS	651	179	0.275	1	96	47	68
6	28	Martin Prado	ATL	599	184	0.307	15	100	66	5
6	29	Nick Markakis	BAL	629	187	0.297	12	79	60	7
7	30	Corey Hart	MLW	558	158	0.283	31	91	102	7
7	31	Austin Jackson	DET	618	181	0.293	4	103	41	27
7	32	Grady Sizemore	CLE	128	27	0.211	0	15	13	4
8	33	Rajai Davis	TOR	525	149	0.284	5	66	52	50
8	34	Carlos Beltran	NYM	220	56	0.255	7	21	27	3
8	35	Angel Pagan	NYM	579	168	0.29	11	80	69	37
8	36	Bobby Abreu	ANA	573	146	0.255	20	88	78	24
8	37	Jose Tabata	PIT	405	121	0.299	4	61	35	19
9	38	Michael Bourn	HOU	535	142	0.265	2	84	38	52
9	39	Andres Torres	SF	507	136	0.268	16	84	63	26
9	40	Ben Zobrist	TB	541	129	0.238	10	77	75	24
9	41	Julio Borbon	TEX	438	121	0.276	3	60	42	15
9	42	Adam Jones	BAL	581	165	0.284	19	76	69	7
10	43	Shane Victorino	PHI	587	152	0.259	18	84	69	34
10	44	Torii Hunter	ANA	573	161	0.281	23	76	90	9
10	45	Vernon Wells	ANA	590	161	0.273	31	79	88	6
10	46	Carlos Quentin	CWS	453	110	0.243	26	73	87	2
10	47	Nick Swisher	NYY	566	163	0.288	29	91	89	1
10	48	Gregor Blanco	KC	237	67	0.283	1	31	14	11

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