Fantasy Baseball Picks 2025: Sleepers to Target Deep in Your Draft

You can absolutely lose your fantasy baseball league with a few misfires early in your draft.

If you're hoping to hoist the league trophy, though, you need to do more than simply snatch up MLB stars at the top. You have to create separation from your leaguemates, and one way to do that is by extracting value from the latter rounds, too.

To help you find those values, here's a look at three sleepers worth targeting with one of your final picks.

Jonathan India, 2B, Kansas City Royals

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The fantasy community should be more excited about Jonathan India.

His talent is obvious. He's a former top-five draft pick who slugged 21 homers and swiped 12 bases while capturing Rookie of the Year honors in 2021.

The lack of excitement stems from a few things. He's had trouble with injuries and hasn't had the same statistical sizzle since. He also downgraded ballparks moving from Cincinnati to Kansas City this offseason.

All of that said, his swing should play up in his new confines. His home run total might drop, but he could be an extra-base hit machine, which could boost his batting average from .250ish to the .270s or higher. He's also slated to leadoff, meaning he'll hit right in front of caps-lock STAR Bobby Witt Jr. and a couple other potent run-producers in Vinnie Pasquantino and Salvador Pérez.

Garrett Mitchell, OF, Milwaukee Brewers

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Imagine finding a 20-homer, 20-steal contributor in the late stages of your draft. Already sounds awesome, right? Now, consider said player also happens to hit in a great venue with a prime spot (at least against righties) in a potent lineup. Oh, and he won't hurt you in batting average and is sometimes a legitimate asset in the category.

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Well, technically it is, but only because Garrett Mitchell hasn't had enough big league action to actually hit those marks.

Injuries have been an issue before, but they aren't right now. That potentially positions him to tap fully into his potential. And, as indicated above, that potential is enormous.

It's not even about projecting advancements from Mitchell, it's just hoping he can stay healthier longer and keep doing what he's already done. He's a career .264/.343/.805 hitter with 162-game averages of 18 homers, 28 steals and 125 combined runs and RBI.

Trevor Story, SS, Boston Red Sox

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If you've played fantasy baseball any time, then you probably know the...well, story about Trevor Story. He was a fantasy juggernaut with the Colorado Rockies, parlayed that production into a six-year, $140 million contract with the Red Sox in March 2022 and has hardly been healthy ever since.

He has spent three full seasons in Boston and basically played one (163 games). When his body has allowed him to take the field, though, he has continued to shine in the counting categories.

In those 163 games for the Sox, Story has tallied 21 homers, 29 stolen bases, 73 runs and 90 RBI. For context, there were only 10 players who had at least 21 homers and 29 steals last season. And outside of Brenton Doyle, who hardly hit a lick away from Coors Field, and Zach Neto, who's working his way back from offseason shoulder surgery, you'd have to spend a premium pick to get any of them.

The point is, Story's high-end outcomes are tremendous, and they are legitimately attainable if he can ever put his injury trouble behind him.