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What's up, friends, and welcome into fantasy pros MLB.

This is the fantasy baseball podcast.

I am Chris Welsh.

That is Joe O'Riko.

We are not in the same room for this week, but what we are here to do is talk about 2026 rank risers.

So what exactly does that mean?

We are looking at players that have taken some significant rank jumps from 25 to 26 that if maybe you haven't been deep in the fantasy baseball streets, it might surprise you.

Might be surprised based off of some early ADPs that are floating out there where some of these

players are going and where some of these players are ranked.

For good or for worse, we are going to have those discussions.

And Mr. Joe Rico, we are going to be going positionally.

So we got a lot of players to cover.

But it is good to see you even though it is not in person like our last live episode. There's nothing like doing a show in person in front of the live studio audience of, I think we got up to 12 or 15,000 people in the studio audience. No, I'm kidding. It was a great show, though. 12 to 15, maybe, not 1,000.

Yeah.

It's a great time every year. If you guys want to come out next year, see us do a show, hang out at the bar, go to some panels, go to some baseball games. It is the best weekend of the year. Sad to be back, but happy to be talking baseball again. We're really ramping things up. Blackbook chapters are in the rear view. so let's get it going my friend.

And a good thing about the first pitch conference and everything, it kind of kicks off a lot of

there's a lot of early season draft. There's tons of draft discussion. And it helps the early

curation of like what ADPs are going to end up looking like. So in this episode, we're going to be

referencing some of the NFBC ADPs, which are like the earliest of early drafts. Obviously, we're going to end up looking like. So in this episode, we're going to be referencing some of the NFBC ADPs, which are like the earliest of early drafts. Obviously, we're going to tell you a little bit later about why Fantasy Pros is going to be able to help you out in the MLB season with the Draft Wizard. But, you know, we got to get all the things open up and getting rocking. NFBC are the first collection of drafts. And it kind of gives us an insight not only into like

A, obviously, where we are going to rank players, that is his own thing, but where players are

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