P predicting the 2026, first and second rounds by ADP, our midseason check-in.

That's what we're doing today on stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretch.

You can find the stealing signals newsletter at Ben Gresh.substack.com with me, as always is Sean Siegel.

You've got all of his great work at Rodeviz, including the in-season article, The Banana

Stand, which has been super fun to follow along with this year.

This is our in our first midweek. Super fun to follow along with this year.

This is our first midweek show.

We haven't been doing them this season yet, and obviously we missed one of the recent Sundays.

This coming Sunday, I want to note,

before we get too far along, we may miss as well,

have an opportunity to go to the Seattle Mariners playoff baseball game. It's at 5 p.m. My time, I probably should be home before too late. We usually record late Sunday night. It's a possibility Sean and I will record late Sunday night. Kind of depends on whether the Mariners win. As you and I were talking about it, you're like, yeah, I told you I might be, you know, really jazzed up when I get home, in which case I'd probably love to record late year. More of the night owl. We always talk about this. And so you'll be up watching the games. And I won't have gotten through a ton of games, but we'll probably record something that evening unless, you know, the Mariners losing devastating fashion. and I'm just like, yeah, I want to go to bed, Sean. So we'll figure record something that evening unless you know the Mariners losing devastating fashion and I'm just like yeah I want to go to bed Sean so we'll figure that out Sunday you guys

will we'll find out whether if something hits your news feed or does not you can always catch

Sean on word of his overtime if not because they'll record something um on like Monday or Tuesday

but yeah we wanted to do our in-season check-in.

We've gone through four weeks.

We usually like to do one around, you know, the first, after the first month or, you know, I don't know when we did it last year, fifth or sixth week. The last several years, we've done an in-season check-in. You get so much information in the first month. It serves as a really fun check in for where we're at but also what you know what we

think is actually going to continue right because that's what the whole idea of this concept is is

what is the market going to say next year what do they think the first and second rounds are going

to look like next year what are you know the players that are going to be viewed that way,

which impacts or is impacted by how they're going to perform the rest of this season in a huge

way, what we're projecting for the rest of season, but also it's not entirely that, right? Like,

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