Way-too-early 2027 Fantasy Baseball rankings: Konnor Griffin rises, Pete Crow-Armstrong leads outfield

We've got 198 days until next year's Opening Day. Ish. Maybe. Okay, let's address the elephant in the room.

Look, we have no idea when the 2027 MLB season will happen. We don't know whether it will happen, even with ongoing labor negotiations inexorably leading toward a lockout. Whether that lockout will be resolved before games are lost (as in 2021) or whether we're staring down another 1994-95 situation remains to be seen. That question will hover over absolutely every discussion this offseason.

But not here. At least, not yet. I'm going to address this here at the top of my first newsletter of the offseason, and then I'm going to proceed as if this is a normal offseason until I have good reason not to. Some of you are doomers who will comment, "The season isn't happening" on every discussion this offseason, and that's your right, but I'm going to keep approaching this offseason as if things are normal until they aren't.

That means I'm going to have my first rankings for 2027 right here in today's newsletter. And it means I'm going to start rolling out my "State of the Position" series for every position next week, and…

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