Four More Tough Players to Rank in 2026! (1/9 Fantasy Baseball podcast)

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Matt McLain was a stud in 2023! He was not in 2025. Brandon Woodruff reinvented himself but comes with major injury questions. Trent Grisham is coming off a career year but nobody believes it. Noelvi Marte has all the talent but might have playing time risk. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have some more tough players to rank in 2026.
0:03.4	Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express.
0:06.9	Welcome into FBT Express on Friday, January 9th.
0:10.2	I am Frank Stamble joined by Scott White,
0:12.9	and let's take a look at some tough players to rank this upcoming season.
0:17.4	We spoke about a bunch already on the full-lane podcast,
0:20.2	but we didn't get to all of
0:21.0	them. So here we are, Scott. And we will get into your first name. That is Matt McLean, who was a stud back in
0:26.9	2023, missed the entire 2024 season, came back in 2025, not so much a stud. So where do you rank
0:35.1	Matt McLean? Oh, I mean, part of what is difficult about him is yes,
0:41.3	he was so studly for that partial rookie season. It was basically a 30-home or 25 steel pace he was
0:49.5	on with a good batting average. And so you look at second base,
0:55.1	there's so little to get excited about there.
0:57.3	Why wouldn't you want to rank the high upside guy optimistically?
1:02.2	But I'm not really sure I buy the upside.
1:04.7	I'm not really sure I ever did.
1:06.0	And also,
1:06.5	second base has a lot of players like that who on paper aren't good,
1:10.1	but we know they have a lot of upside
1:11.4	Jackson Holiday Marcus Simeon you know even Xavier Edwards to a degree like have have more
1:19.7	upside than they showed last year and so Matt McLean has a lot of company as far as that goes
1:25.5	and again I have less faith in the actual skill set for him.
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