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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

4 Risky Players To Avoid in 2026 Fantasy Baseball Drafts (Ep. 1169)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

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4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Join Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) as the highlight four risky players that you should be avoiding in your upcoming fantasy baseball drafts!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

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0:09.4

What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros on the Fantasy Baseball Channel.

0:13.3

I am Chris Welsh.

0:14.2

That is Joe Rico.

0:15.5

And today we have the four riskiest players for 2026 when you enter those draft rooms.

0:23.5

Are these all players you need to avoid?

0:26.4

Well, there's some big names on here.

0:27.7

Specifically, we're going to come out the gates hot.

0:29.4

These four players might be landmines to your drafts this coming season,

0:34.1

and we will talk it all out.

0:35.8

Me and Joe Rico, make sure when you're prepping for those

0:37.8

drafts, by the way, to go to Fantasy Pros, get all your draft prep in from the draft wizard to all

0:42.3

the notes, the ADP, the ECR, we got everything covered. Go and check it out today on Fantasy

0:47.9

Pros. Joe Rico, landmines, how prevalent do you think there really are landmines? And where do you think they

0:55.8

stop in draft? Because it's hard to argue that, you know, a player landmine is really there in

1:01.3

the 160s. And by the way, what we obviously mean by that is a player that is risky and kind of

1:05.9

blow up your draft strategy. Do you think landmines stop after the third round, the fifth

1:10.2

round, the eighth round,

1:11.4

what do you think? I play in more deeper leagues. So I think if you're playing in like a 15 team

1:16.6

league, maybe it's the top 200 or so picks because those are still real cornerstones for those

1:22.3

deeper league teams. If you're talking about standard 10 and 12 team leagues, I'd say inside of the

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