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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

10 Players The Projections HATE for 2026 Fantasy Baseball (Ep. 1167)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Back your bust candidates up with real data! Join Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and Scott Bogman for their top 10 players that fantasy baseball projections hate for 2026 leagues. Does Milwaukee Brewers DH Christian Yelich take a downturn? Will injuries once again catch up with Boston Red Sox SS Trevor Story? Plus, why do the numbers say to avoid young arms like Milwaukee Brewers SP Jacob Misiorowski?

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.7

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB.

0:12.5

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:14.5

It is me Joey P.

0:15.3

Joe Pee Zapia.

0:16.2

And today we're going to turn things around.

0:18.9

Last show, we were talking about the players the projections love.

0:22.1

This time we're talking about projections that maybe aren't too kind to some of the players this year in 20206.

0:28.3

We'll be using the ATC projections, but don't forget, our Fantasy Pro's projections were number one last year.

0:33.7

That's right, Numero uno.

0:35.5

And of course, we want you to go to fancypros.com for all of our

0:38.7

ranks and all of our projections here going forward and help me go through some of these names

0:44.5

here on the list. Scott Bogman, the Welsh, and of course, all of you hanging out here watching

0:49.9

on our channel. And by the way, speaking of our channel, don't forget, March 11, 3 p.m. Eastern,

1:11.9

right here on the channel Wednesday And by the way, speaking of our channel, don't forget, March 11, 3 p.m. Eastern, right here on the channel Wednesday, myself, Welsh, Ryan Wormley, we've got Joe Erika, we've got guests like Scott Pianowski, Lance Brosdowski, Jeff Ponce, this Casey Bubba. All these folks are going to join us for what? For the annual fantasy baseball fest. I know people are messaging me asking when is it start. When does it start?

1:29.5

It starts Wednesday. So make sure you're here for the four hours, 3 p.m. Eastern. It starts. Again, you can pick it up any time you want. And of course, if you miss anything, don't worry, it's all going to be on our YouTube channel on demand or check it out at YouTube.com slash fantasy pros MLB. So subscribe to the channel. We're trying to get to 30,000 subscribers. Do that right now.

1:27.6

Ring the belt to that goes dang. So you don't forget the fantasy fest happens. And don't forget right after the fest, Scott Bogman and Joe Rico are going to go to Twitch at Twitch.tv.tv.com slash fantasy pros to a live fantasy draft. So maybe you can get in that as well. Gentlemen, let's just jump in with both feet here because we got a lot to get to today. I want to start with a hitter this time that is possibly someone that we got to look at in terms of their projections for 2026. Let's start with Christian Yelich. Now, I took him in yesterday's draft because he fell a little too far from my liking. It was an OBP League too, and I like Yelich there. But right now,

2:01.0

projections on ATC, having for 135 games, no shocker there. You always want to put some miss time in there for him. 19 homers, just 74 RBI and 74 run scored, only 16 steals, and a 258 batting average. Well, shall start with you on this one here? Obviously, last year was a solid year for Christian Yewitch,

2:17.4

but we've all known in the past,

2:19.3

it's been a little dice in terms of playing time

2:20.8

and in terms of health. So are these projections kind of alluding to something that we should be accounting into our brains when we're drafting him? Yeah, I mean, if you want to talk about, like, you know, projections hating a player, this is the guy. And what it looks like, especially if they're taking

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