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What's going on, everybody?

Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, joined today by a very special guest.

He is Derek Van Riper from The Athletic, the host of Rates and Burles.

Derek, thank you so much for joining me today.

How you been doing?

Doing great, Joe. Thanks for having me. Always a much for joining me today. How you been doing? Doing great. Joe,

thanks for having me. Always a pleasure for our yearly chat. Typically, it's over the last couple years, it's come in the preseason. I think if memory serves, we've done a third base preview. We did an ADP battle last year with Jeff Erickson. And today, we're going to be doing a little bit of a panic meter. Now, I know it's very early. It's been about 6, 7% of the season,

depending on which team you're looking at but we're

starting to get some sample sizes here 50 or so played appearances and I get questions you get

questions we all get bombarded in the DMs is this player washed should I drop player A for player

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