Dynasty: too close to call. Redraft: Fernando Tatis Jr. The FanRanked staff dynasty board has them nearly level, DH #7 and Tatis #9, and the expert consensus agrees (#16 and #1). The community leans DH, FRV 93.6 to 79.6. For 2026 redraft, the consensus has Tatis ahead, #6 to #20, and the rest-of-season engine agrees ($63 and $42).
JD on Fernando Tatis Jr. (Sep 24, 2026): My gut wants me to rank FTJ much lower than 9th, but as I dove into the data, my brain told me I couldn't rank him lower than this. Outside of PCA he has been the second most valuable player in the second half of 2026. In some ways he's been even more valuable than PCA, with a higher xwOBA and a K% of only 15%. He also has everything you'd expect to see from a player who would be in the top 10 dynasty assets from an underlying metrics perspective. The Savant page is glowing red and things have generally improved, most notably, for me, the K rate, which has come down from nearly 30% in his rookie year to 18.6% this year and 18.7% in 2025, while still maintaining elite exit velocity numbers. So why is my gut telling me not to rank him 9th? I feel like he is one of the most volatile players inter-season in the top 10 and is not as young as some of the guys above him on this list. I was fully ready to bury him in my rankings and more or less did back in June when I had him ranked 50th overall and thought he was a shell of his former self. I'm also concerned his launch angle issues could reemerge and take his 25-homer seasons below 20 as his speed starts to decline and he becomes more like Xander Bogaerts' profile. In an ideal world, he begins selling out for more power and starts hitting 30+ home runs a year, a la Manny Machado, and holds his value into at least his mid-30s. If he takes that path expect him to be valuable for the full 7-year period this analysis covers.
JD on Shohei Ohtani DH (Sep 24, 2026): Ohtani is going to start my 3rd tier of dynasty players, and I think we are in for a wake-up call when it comes to how we can expect to see Ohtani used going forward. I think Ohtani's days of playing 150+ games every season are gone. The most responsible thing for the Dodgers to do would be to throttle his usage and make sure that he is healthy for the full season, including the playoffs, and not risk an overuse injury in July. Can he still be an elite player at 140 games per season? Absolutely. Is he also 32 years old and subjecting himself to a completely novel workload that we don't know how it will affect him in the future? Also yes. To be fair I think this workload effect manifests itself more with his pitching exposure rather than him being able to DH but I think you'll see a little bit of an effect on his offensive statistics regardless. Part of me wants to move him down even more (because this is supposed to be a 7-year dynasty projection) but I also think Ohtani can continue to be an absolute force at the plate into his late 30s. No projection methodology can account for the unique athlete that Ohtani is, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and not trust the aging curves here. To be clear this ranking is just the hitter version of him. I'm not going to try to rank the hitter/pitcher version of him because I think it's too difficult to compare him to everyone else in the league when you have the whole package working for you.
Data as of . Consensus boards refresh daily; the staff board moves when it is republished.
| Metric | Fernando Tatis Jr. | Shohei Ohtani DH |
|---|---|---|
| Team | SD | LAD |
| Position | SS/OF | DH |
| Age | 27 | 32 |
| Staff Dynasty Rank | #9 | #7 |
| Dynasty Consensus Rank | #16 | #1 |
| Redraft Consensus Rank | #6 | #20 |
| FRV (FanRanked Value) | 79.6 | 93.6 |
| Expert Sources | 11 | 11 |
| Dynasty Rank Range | #7–#33 | #1–#18 |
| Rest-of-Season Value | $63 | $42 |
| $ Earned Year to Date | $37 | $24 |
| ROS Rank (Top 300) | #2 | #10 |
| 30-Day Consensus Move | Up 8 spots | No move |
| Stat | Fernando Tatis Jr. | Shohei Ohtani DH |
|---|---|---|
| PA | 687 | 596 |
| HR | 25 | 30 |
| R | 94 | 89 |
| RBI | 81 | 80 |
| SB | 36 | 11 |
| AVG | .285 | .277 |
| OBP | .354 | .380 |
| SLG | .466 | .522 |
| OPS | .821 | .902 |
| wOBA | .355 | .381 |
| xwOBA | .380 | .399 |
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