2023 First Base Recap! Top Performers & Early 2024 Rankings (10/24 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
First base looks like a juggernaut again (2:30)! ... Matt Olson and Freddie Freeman were both top three overall players (4:45). ... How do we project Cody Bellinger in 2024 (12:50)? Will Pete Alonso bounce back? ... What will Christian Walker cost in 2024 (18:30)? ... Yandy Diaz turned in a career year while Paul Goldschmidt took a step back (24:25). ... Spencer Steer and Justin Turner were both productive (31:55). ... Bryce Harper is BACK (41:33)! ... Where does Vlad Jr. rank heading into 2024 (45:32)? ... Who else ranks in the top-20 first basemen next year (54:22)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today Podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:08.0 | A hook and first pitch rushing. |
| 0:11.0 | Deep left field. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Wepak. Walk the wall! |
| 0:14.4 | Got a fantasy question? Email fantasy baseball at CBSi.com. |
| 0:19.4 | Get ready to win your lead. |
| 0:21.8 | Where fantasy becomes reality. ready to win your lead. Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:27.0 | How should we project? |
| 0:28.0 | Cody Bellinger in 2024? |
| 0:30.0 | I have no idea, so hopefully Scott does welcome into fantasy baseball today on Tuesday |
| 0:36.2 | October 24th I am Frank Samful joined by Scott White today on the show we're moving |
| 0:41.9 | on up to first base we'll take a look at the top 10 first baseman from this past season and break down way to early 2024 rankings Scott for a few years, it felt like there was maybe a bit of a lull at first base, |
| 0:56.7 | not as many elite options up top as we were used to, I don't know, maybe a decade ago. |
| 1:01.5 | But I think that might be changing. I think we might be changing I think we might be back to a bit of a juggernaut here at |
| 1:06.3 | first base yeah the position had a resurgence of sorts of sorts in 2023 and really it was in the second half of |
| 1:14.7 | 2023 because remember at around the all-star break we did a redraft for the |
| 1:20.6 | rest of the season and we were saying saying, wow, first base is scarce. |
| 1:23.5 | You need to move up all the early round first baseman |
| 1:26.3 | for the rest of season redraft. |
| 1:28.1 | But then after that, we had Tristan Kossas |
| 1:31.4 | and Spencer Torkelson |
| 1:33.9 | begin to hit their stride. |
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