MLB teams in Florida and Arizona are getting ready for the start of the 2025 MLB season, and that means it’s time for everyone to get geared up for another awesome season of MLB Best Ball contests on DraftKings. As you finalize your rankings and get ready for drafts, this post will highlight my favorite options to look for as Best Ball infield targets in 2025 from the National League.
The Best Ball Lobby on DraftKings includes contests at a wide variety of price points and several different league sizes. If you’re unfamiliar with the Best Ball offering from DraftKings, check out this helpful information sheet that explains all the ins and outs of both Tournaments and Sit & Go’s. Most of the biggest contests are 12-player leagues, but there are also three-player and six-player Sit & Go’s if you want a shallower and quicker draft.
Hitters in Best Ball are divided into just two positions–infield and outfield. You’ll want to stuff your roster with quality bats in each spot since the top three infielders and top three outfielders will have their scores automatically counted as starters for your team. Throughout Spring Training, we’ve gone through sleepers and busts at a variety of positions, but for this post, we’ll focus on some Best Ball infield targets that stand out as strong values based on their ADP in current drafts on DraftKings.
CJ Abrams, Washington Nationals (ADP: IF20, 55.4 overall)
Abrams is going off the board as the 20th infielder. In 12-player leagues, he’s a solid second infielder, and he should be drafted in even three-player leagues as a late-round pick. He has top-10 infielder potential if he can put together the best of last season and avoid some immaturity issues that popped up late in the year.
He was optioned to Triple-A on Sep. 21 last year, ending his season early due to what Manager Dave Martinez called an “internal issue.” Reports came out that Abrams was at a casino until 8:00 in the morning before a day game, but both Martinez and Abrams have said the issue is behind them. Even before the premature ending, it was a rough second half for Abrams.
Before the All-Star break, Abrams hit .268 with a .355 wOBA, 15 home runs, 15 stolen bases and a 129 wRC+. After the All-Star break, he only hit .203 while his K% rose from 20.1% to 23.5% although he kept stealing bases.
He’s still just 24 coming into this season and will likely hit at the top of the Nats’ exciting young lineup that includes young studs James Wood and Dylan Crews. Abrams has 30-30 upside if he stays locked in and should have strong runs scored and RBI upside.
Abrams is a high-risk pick at this point in drafts when there are still plenty of more proven options, but his ceiling is high enough that he’s one of my top Best Ball infield targets at this point in the fifth round of 12-player drafts. He makes sense after locking in a couple of strong pitchers or outfielders if you are ok sacrificing some floor in exchange for upside.
Spencer Steer, Cincinnati Reds (ADP: IF42, 122.3 overall)
While I wouldn’t target Steer in 3-player leagues, I love his potential at the end of 6-player leagues or in the middle part of 12-player contests as infield depth. Steer could play mostly outfield this season in Cincinnati, but he’s classified as an infielder in DraftKings Best Ball contests.
Steer has been very productive in each of the last two seasons, playing 156 games in 2023 and 158 games in 2024. He had 23 homers in 2023 and 20 homers in 2024 with identical 20.9% K%. He increased his stolen bases from 15 to 25 last year but his batting average dropped from .271 to .225, causing his wOBA to drop from .355 to .316. While there are lots of different reasons for that, one reason is that his BABIP dropped from .318 to .260. He also played through shoulder soreness for much of the second half of last year and is dealing with the same issue this Spring Training.
If he can get past that issue in time for Opening Day, he could finish with another 20-20 season with some positive regression in BABIP leading to a big year in the heart of one of the most exciting young lineups in the MLB.
Steer’s consistent production makes him a solid pick at this point in drafts who brings both a high floor and a high ceiling over 120 picks into most drafts.
Willson Contreras, St. Louis Cardinals (ADP: IF67, 198.7 overall)
As best ball infield targets, catchers are tricky. Since they are just as “infielders,” positional scarcity doesn’t boost their value as it does in some formats. Using a general fantasy baseball cheat sheet doesn’t account for that, so be sure to adjust if necessary. Contreras is an even more complicated situation since he’s moving to 1B for the Cardinals but will be catcher-eligible in many leagues, which greatly boosts his value.
Even in best ball, though, the move to 1B should help Contreras by keeping him healthy and in the lineup every day. He was also able to bulk up and add more muscle this offseason since he doesn’t have to worry about flexibility behind the plate. In 12-player contests, he’s going in the late rounds and can be a nice way to add strong, consistent production to round out your infield depth.
Contreras has posted an .ISO over .200 in each of the last four seasons and hit 20+ home runs in three straight before finishing with 15 in his 84 games last year. If he had played his typical 110-130 games, he would have likely reached 20 dingers for a fourth straight season as well. He hit over .260 with a wOBA over .350 in each of the last two years in St. Louis. He even added some sneaky stolen bases for a catcher.
Carrying more bulk and being able to focus more on hitting, he hopes to improve his offense from last year which would make him one of the best hitters in this range. He’s a nice safety net if you’ve taken some boom-or-bust infielders earlier in your draft and is one of my favorite best ball infield targets to round out the position.
