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Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pros MLB.

It's me, Joey P.

Joe Pizapia.

With me is Joe Areco.

And today we're going to do a little fun video for you about some pitchers in early ADP

that we think are going to grossly outperform

where they're being drafted early. Now look, it is very early. It's best ball season here. Obviously,

as we get closer to fantasy drafts for redraft, things are going to change a little bit. But right now,

at least for the time being on fantasy pros.com, you can see the consensus rankings. You can go look at NFBC rankings too.

And there's some guys that we think aren't getting enough love, some guys that are being a little suppressed in those pitcher streets.

Should Joe Rico, let's start with a guy who was a fantasy darling in the analyst community a couple years ago.

Injuries kind of derailed him, but quietly got back on track and healthy last year.

Let's talk about Kyle Bradish, who right now is a guy who is going as the 72nd player overall

and the ADP SP of 24. Yeah, this is a type of player I like to buy into when they've returned

from their Tommy John surgery. They've had a little bit of time to get reacclimated on the mound. And now you're in year two post-surgery. And usually the last thing to come back is the command. And Kyle Bradish returned with a sub-8% walk rate while striking out 37% of the batters he faced. Yes, it was six starts. It was 32 innings, but it's a really good sign for Kyle Bradish that he was able to return and not be all over the place. We saw Yuri Perez struggle. We saw Spencer Strider's struggle. A lot of guys come back and that initial return doesn't look good. The fact that Bradish hit the ground running really gives me a lot of encouragement.

He's on a new and improved Orioles team. I mean, it's still the same Orioles team, but they have gotten better over the course of this offseason, of course, with Pete Alonzo coming into town. They disappointed as a whole last year, but I think the Orioles will bounce back. There should be a lot of wins to go around for Kyle Bradish. And I think, honestly, he is a chance to finish as an SP1 in 2026.

I don't think that that's a far stretch at all. And I do think they'll be improved. And look, a lot of things went wrong last year for the Baltimore Orioles. I don't think two years in a row we get everything going wrong. Still a lot of talent on that team. You hope Jackson Holiday takes another step forward. You hope Gunner Henderson has a good year, Westberg. And again, bringing Alonzo, a real bat in that middle of that order that you have to account for. Helps everybody. It's going to help the pitching staff, too. So you get Rogers and Braddish at the top of that rotation. Hopefully things go well for them. All right, first got on my list, and I do all the pitcher write-ups for the fantasy baseball blackbook, which you can get on Amazon right now. So go pick it up there. Joe Rico, a contributor. And of course,

I do all the pitching,

uh, the pitcher write-ups for the fantasy baseball blackbook, which you can get on Amazon right now. So go pick it up there, Joe Rico, a contributor. And of course, I do all the pitching profiles there. And number one on my list for up-and-coming pitchers this year is Nolan McLean. And that is despite the fact that I am a loser, Met fan. Because as a Met fan, you know, things don't go your way more often

than not. Right now, currently, he's a 28th starting pitcher off the board. His ADP is 104 overall, and I just don't think it's high enough. This is another guy that I think is easily a top 20 guy, if not potentially top 15 of everything breaks right. You saw that walk rate go from about four walks per nine to three walks

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