Are you tired of people telling you you're an idiot for making that risky first or second round pick?

Well, I've got Chris Torres on the line today to talk about why some of these risky players may still have a place on your fantasy team.

Right after this on the Roadode Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by fan tracks.

Eric Holtzman here with my guest, Chris Torres of the Fantasy Baseball Beat. And Chris, it's officially at the start of baseball season. Spring training starts today. We've got a game between the Dodgers and Cubs. So I assume as soon as this pod is over, you're going to be scrambling over to the box score and moving a whole bunch of players by multiple

rounds on your draft board. Is that right? Oh, absolutely, man. This is this is what matters.

You know, this first spring training game, somebody gets a hit. You know, I think you automatically

move them up, at least two rounds. But, yeah, I appreciate you. I mean, did you plan this, Eric, like to have me on for the official start of the baseball season? Was this like your plan all along? We'll say yes. It's not a, it's not fantasy season until Chris Torres is on the Road to Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I think that's how it works. You mentioned hits. I really want to know who

gets the win. That's the real key stats. Spring training wins. That's what I'm here. Absolutely.

Yep. I think that's that's part of my process that, you know, most people aren't on. But,

yeah, hopefully we can convince them to also do that. But all kidding aside, thank you so much eric for for having me on

this is uh this is a thrill so uh yeah just looking forward to uh talking some fancy baseball here

yeah we will be talking about some risky picks over the course of the next hour or so you know

those divisive early round picks where you got a whole bunch of smart

people saying, why in the world would you ever do that? He gets hurt. He has downsides. Well,

yeah, okay, we know, but these guys have upsides too. So we're going to be talking about some of these

players trying to figure out why they still might belong on your fantasy team. But first,

we've got a couple headlines that we're tracking throughout

the course of the spring, a couple storylines here, including Jose Altuve, playing some left

field this spring. It looks like his first spring game is going to come in left field. I guess

probably we don't need to adjust Altuve's ranking very much. I mean, he'll probably

pick up outfield eligibility if the Astros are serious about this. That's not a major boost. But how

do you see this impacting the rest of the Astros depth chart? I mean, we're going to get more

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