The Industry’s Favorite Players For 2026 | Live From First Pitch Arizona (Ep. 1142)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this show LIVE from the First Pitch Arizona Fantasy Baseball Conference! Welsh and Joe speak with some of the brightest minds around the fantasy baseball industry to see which players they will be targeting in 2026 drafts! Special thanks to Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB), Frank Stampfl (@Roto_Frank), Eno Sarris (@enosarris), Paul Sporer (@sporer), his doppelgänger Andy Bell (@DuckSnortRoto), and KC Bubba (@bdentrek) for coming on and sharing their knowledge!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:09.5	What's up, friends, and welcome into fantasy pros.
0:11.7	This is the fantasy baseball podcast live from first pitch, Arizona.
0:17.5	Eric Cross, can I get a clap?
0:18.8	Live studio audience here.
0:20.2	Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
0:21.3	Thank you very much.
0:23.9	A completely new experience because if you ever watch the fantasy pros videos that are out
0:28.2	there, you see it's like, you know, the cool overlays and I'm over here and O'Riko's in
0:33.4	another country or something like that.
0:35.1	But this time I can touch and feel very appropriately, though.
0:39.9	Joe Rico here, we're live in person.
0:42.5	We've got some great people here.
0:44.2	We've got some great guest scheduled to come on with us.
0:47.1	We're not going to say the guest because things get crazy here.
0:49.7	And let's just pray that they find their way into our panel here, into our live podcast recording.
0:56.3	I'm Chris Welsh.
0:57.4	Thank you guys so much for hanging out.
0:58.7	And I am joined by the very, very pocketful Joe Rico, who if everybody doesn't know,
1:04.9	took down an NFBC playoff contest.
1:08.5	We don't need to say the exact number, but he might be like $20,000
1:12.6	$1,000. I'm just going to put your business out. Thank you, my friend. It's great to be here.
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