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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Buy or Sell These Four Rookies on Draft Day? (Ep. 1149)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Join Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) as they break down four hyped up rookies and determine whether or not they are a good investment in 2026 fantasy baseball drafts!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:09.4

What's up, friends, and welcome into fantasy pros.

0:11.4

This is the fantasy baseball podcast.

0:13.6

I'm Chris Welsh, and we are talking rookies.

0:17.7

You know, I love prospects.

0:19.1

Love me some rookies.

0:20.4

The designation difference would be rookies have actually had some playing know, I love prospects. Love me some rookies. The designation difference would be

0:21.8

rookies have actually had some playing time. Obviously, prospects can turn into it. But these are some

0:26.9

players that had got some playing time last year with one little sneaky caveat. And rookies of guys

0:34.0

that you know have relative playing time this year that you are going to want to own.

0:37.7

Four to own for Draft Day.

0:40.0

And who did I bring along to join me?

0:42.2

It is the one the only.

0:43.5

Joe O'Riko, the master of the NFBC, the big playoff champion.

0:47.7

And this is a great time to bring you in because Joe, I think there's always kind of a weirdness that goes on with rookies.

0:57.0

This isn't necessarily prospects in here, but like the rookie conversation in fantasy baseball

1:01.7

because A, projections tend to not like most rookies because there isn't enough of a sample

1:07.6

size. And B, there's always this, do they get over drafted or in some cases as you as an

1:13.3

experience like NFBC high stakes player, rookies tend to be players that are far and far beyond

1:19.6

fast avoids unless there is immense upside.

1:23.2

So it's going to be interesting discussion today.

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