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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into Hour 3 of Fantasy Fest 2026.

I am Ryan Wormley, joined by Chris Welsh, who has been rocking it all Fest so far.

I think you've had just one segment off so far.

You're going through to the end all the way. He is an Iron Man. We are also joined, of course, from CBS Sports, host of fantasy baseball today. It's Frank Stamphill. Franks, thanks so much for making the time for us today. Hey, what's going on, guys? Thank you for having me. Wells, looks like you've been spending some time in the sun, my friend. My goodness. Everybody keeps killing.

I,

okay,

the lighting doesn't quite help. Looks like you've been spending some time in the sun, my friend. My goodness.

Everybody keeps killing.

Okay. The lighting doesn't quite help. I could probably change the lighting a little bit.

But yes, I have been every day. I'm out there. I wore glasses and you were with me about a week ago. And we were watching some of that. But I didn't realize I was that tan.

I might just be that pale.

That sort of comes to you're also that pale, buddy.

I was going to very politely not mention it, but it was the first thing I noticed, I will admit, here Welsh.

I'm changing my camera level.

We, of course, are we talking about Welsh just mentioned some breakout hitters here for the next 30 minutes. No pressure on me here talking to two of the great hosts of their own shows in the industry. So I got to really step up my game here for this segment at least. Breakout hitter is one of the fun kind of topics to always think about. Before we dive into the specific names that you guys picked, I do want to ask you, Frank, when you think about finding and identifying a breakout hitter, what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you were trying to come up with the names that you want to talk about? Yeah, I think any type of breakout, it could be hitter or pitcher is someone that could provide excess value, right? We're always debating sleeper or breakout. To me, sleeper is someone who's like undervalued and, you know, easy profit.

Breakout is someone that could really take that next step and maybe do something that we haven't seen before.

Maybe it's someone who has prospect pedigree, a post-hype prospect, something like that.

But it's really for me, whether it's a hitter or a pitcher, it's someone that I think could really provide that excess value and potentially even be a league winner, someone that has that big upside in fantasy.

Welsh, is that how you kind of define the difference between like sleeper versus breakout, for example?

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