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Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

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I'm your host, Joe O'Riko.

Going today by two very special guests.

And one of these men, I guess he's not really technically a guest.

The call is coming from inside the building.

But Chris Welsh, I only get to talk to you mostly in the preseason.

So I'm bringing you on here along with Frankie Stamps.

Frank Stample from CBS Fantasy Baseball Today.

Fellas, thank you so much for coming on.

Frankie, CBS Fantasy Baseball Today host, how you doing,

my friend? Doing very well. We were talking beforehand. It's been a crazy start to the baseball season.

It feels like we've said this every single year in existence, but this year just feels crazier, man.

So many high-end starting pitcher injuries, so many elite hitters that are off to terrible starts. It's like, what do we make of all this? We're going to talk about some of those players. But yeah, it's been crazy start as usual. What's going on with you guys? You know what? I missed Welsh pretty much. I only get to do shows with you, like I mentioned, pretty much throughout the off season, we're doing shows like every day and then we go like six months without recording. So I figured, you know what, let's bring on a quote unquote guest and somebody who I already get to do a lot of shows with throughout the season, but it's been a while, Welshie. So how you doing, my friend? Are you ready to talk some ranking wars? Glad to be a guest on your phenomenal network and show. very glad to be here. You're here with Pisa Pia. He's always got his head in the clouds in other places for football and everything like that and you get to lock in with me. So yeah, we haven't got to do enough. But glad to be here. Glad to debate and yell, yell at somebody else about some players. and couldn't think of a better person than not only Rico, but my boy, Frankie, Stamps.

Close. and yell, yell at somebody else about some players and couldn't think of a better person than not only Rico, but my boy, Frankie Stamps.

Let's get into it.

Yeah, we've done a few shows together over the years.

Something similar we did actually, like two or three years ago, I want to say, but we're going to be diving into eight player debates where these two guys have a bit of a substantial difference between their rankings.

We're going to do one first base, one second base and one third baseman, a shortstop, an outfield debate, and then three starting pitcher debates. But we're going to start off at first base, and we're going to start off by talking about Yandy. Oh, no, sorry, that's not Yandy Diaz. That's Vladimir McGarro Jr. I honestly get them confused these days because they're pretty much the same player. Now, Frankie, you've got him still as your number one first baseman.

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