2025 Fantasy Baseball: 25 Spring Training winners and losers include Cam Smith, Brett Baty, Rafael Devers

You may think spring training performance doesn’t matter, and for known quantities, it doesn’t. But for relative unknowns, spring training can provide crucial insights into what’s coming.

It’s not foolproof, of course, which makes it not for the foolhardy. So rather than leaving you to your own devices, I’ve decided to point you to the couple dozen spring performances that could matter, presenting them in a “winners and losers” format.

And really, it’s less about the performances than the developments. My goal is to determine what’s actually changed because of spring training, whether for performance reasons, health reasons, role reasons or skill reasons (such as developing a new pitch).

There are a few contradictory cases that I decided to exclude. One would be Kristian Campbell, who backed into the Red Sox’s second base job with a terrible performance that saw him strike out more than 30 percent of the time. He’s a winner in the most technical sense, but I wouldn’t say I feel better about him than before spring training began. Conversely, there’s Zac Veen, who no doubt raised his Fantasy stock with his performance this spring but ultimately didn’t secure a job on the Rockies opening day roster. Hard to say whether he’s a winner or loser.

A few other winners: Drake Baldwin, Cody Bellinger, Bo Bichette, Griffin Canning, Mike Clevinger, Hunter Greene, Zebby Matthews, Curtis Mead, Max Meyer, Casey Mize, Joseph Ortiz, Cade Povich, Max Scherzer, Spencer Schwellenbach, Gavin Sheets, Shane Smith, A.J. Smith-Shawver, Spencer Strider, Tomoyuki Sugano, Jacob Wilson

And just to keep things somewhat balanced, here are five losers from spring training (excluding those who got injured, which are obvious losers).

A few other losers: Ian Anderson, Evan Carter, Caleb Durbin, Carlos Estevez, Reynaldo Lopez, Jordan Walker