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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

The Ultimate Starting Pitcher Guide Part 1 with Eno Sarris: Rankings, Sleepers, Busts, and Must-Haves (Ep. 1161)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17), Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh), and special guest Eno Sarris (@enosarris) from The Athletic for Part 1 of our 2026 fantasy baseball starting pitcher preview! Joey P, Welsh, and Eno break down each tier within the Top 45 SPs 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.

0:09.5

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB.

0:12.3

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:14.5

It is me, Joey P.

0:15.4

Joe P. Zipia.

0:16.6

And today we're going to continue on our ultimate guide series.

0:20.2

And pitching is such a big position. We have to chop it up into a couple halves. So today we're going to talk about the top 50 guys, maybe top 45, with one of the best in the business. Eno Seris from The Athletic is joining us and the Welsh is here too. The boys are going to debate some starting pitchers here in the top 45, some guys that they like, some guys that they hate, and some guys that we have to have some bigger discussions about before we get to all that. Make sure you subscribe to the channel, subscribe to the podcast feed. We love hearing from you too. Drop your picks here for your favorite pitchers this year in 26. Eno, I know it's a busy time of year for you, but hope springs eternal here.

0:54.9

I know early going.

0:56.2

The pitchers are always ahead of the hitters.

0:58.3

We always say that, right?

0:59.6

But any standouts for you and some of the early coverage as you're starting to peel back the layers of that first weekend of spring games?

1:06.8

Yeah, I don't know how much we can learn from the first week or so of games.

1:12.2

I'm just happy when somebody gets a shot, you know, it means something when J.R.

1:17.3

Richie in Braves camp gets two innings because they're hurting right now.

1:22.1

They just lost two guys to elbow surgery and just in terms of like who gets the,

1:27.2

who gets the innings sometimes early on it's

1:29.8

who's getting a shot who's being stretched out that's almost as important as anything else because

1:35.3

the debt tells you what the organization thinks which you know they have more information than us even

1:40.0

on the prospect side too just to throw out Homer diamond back here but like Cole Drake and Mitch Brad with the diamondbacks both got early looks and they've got absolute bullpen worries. They might be moving. You know, and Eduardo might have to come off of there. So just to kind of like tail on to that, it's hard to read into anything. But when you see these opportunities, they could lead to like really good bullpen stuff or it could end up being spot stars.

2:02.3

Or if we have injuries.

2:03.0

You know, we keep having these shocking injuries that go out. Cole Drake has looked good. Mitch Bratt, kind of a command demon. You also had a guy on the Padres, Tristan McKenzie throwing harder than he had ever thrown before. So, you know, stuff to pay attention to. but yeah, agreed, like, what can we fully pull out of a lot of these pictures right now

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