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Trust the Gut: Fantasy Baseball FAAB Primer for 2025

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Welcome to my Trust the Gut FAAB Primer.

FAAB stands for Free Agent Acquisition Budget or Free Agent Acquisition Bidding.

FAAB is a claims processing system in which fantasy managers bid on free-agent players, and the highest bidder wins the claim. In fantasy baseball, it’s adding (acquiring) available hitters and pitchers to our roster in exchange for hitters and pitchers we are dropping (releasing).

Over the last 15 years, FAAB has become the primary process of acquiring new players — in many cases replacing the antiquated first-come, first-served method. Some fantasy platforms like Yahoo still utilize waiver wire priority claim setups after FAAB has run. Other sites like NFBC do not. Most sites use a blind bidding setup and FAAB claims run once per week.

The free agent budget on NFBC is $1,000 (fake money) for the full season, typically 27 weekly bidding periods. On other sites where many set up their home leagues, a full-season free agent budget can be set to $100 or $1,000. These total budgets average out to $3.70 or $37 per week, respectively, throughout a fantasy baseball season.

Trust the Gut is my weekly FAAB column where I recommend hitters and pitchers to consider adding. They will be listed by position for both 12-team and 15-team leagues. The initial data tables for each of these leagues will be updated every Friday, my article will be published Saturdays, and my “update” addendum is published Sundays by 8 p.m. ET, which is two hours before NFBC’s weekly FAAB deadline (10 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT).

Go straight to the Sunday March 23 FAAB rankings:

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