The Ultimate First Base Guide: Sleepers, Busts, and Must-Haves! (Ep. 1154)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Join Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) as they preview the first base position ahead of the 2026 fantasy baseball season! Welsh and Joe break down each tier and highlight their sleepers, busts, and must-have targets to keep an eye on in your upcoming drafts!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.2	Stigatz here.
0:06.1	I have a podcast empire that I have brought here to Iheart, and I'm also hosting a daily live radio show from 3 to 5 p.m.
0:12.7	Eastern called Stegots & Company Live, which is available in podcast form, right when the show finishes every single day.
0:20.3	You can expect a lot of laughter, great guests, a ton of calls, and a lot of fun.
0:25.1	Listen to Stugats & Company Live and our original podcast, Stugats and Company and God Bless Football.
0:32.0	And you can check all of those out on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:44.0	What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros.
0:46.5	This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast, and this is the ultimate first base guide.
0:54.0	I'm Chris Welsh, joined by Joe Rico.
0:56.2	We are in our rank series.
0:58.1	We're in our rank era, if you will, Joe,
1:00.5	where we're going to be going through sleepers, bust, must have.
1:05.2	And of course, we're going to be looking at ECR.
1:07.9	The expert consensus ranks across the land.
1:10.8	You can check out over on Fantasy Pros
1:12.4	where we've got ADP sprawled out and average
1:16.9	by all the different websites.
1:18.2	And we got the same thing with the expert consensus ranks
1:20.6	where me, O'RICO, and a bunch of others
1:23.2	are creating one big conglomerate of ranks.
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