The Ultimate Third Base Guide: Rankings, Sleepers, Players to Avoid, and Must-Haves (Ep. 1155)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:11.4 | This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | It's me, Joey P. |
| 0:14.3 | Joe Pizapia, and it's time to look ahead now to our ultimate guide. |
| 0:18.4 | This time at the Hot Corner, Joe O'Riko, the Welsh, and myself are here to take you through the best of the third base position and possibly some landmines to avoid as well as some sleepers to draft. |
| 0:31.1 | These are the ultimate guides here and they're going to live on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:34.2 | Think of this. |
| 0:35.2 | Basically, if you've taken the whole off season off where you've been hanging out, worrying about other things in life, and you're coming back to fantasy baseball, these will help you get set up for all of your draft. So you can binge watch them all here on our YouTube channel, but you can't unless you subscribe. So subscribe to our YouTube channel here, subscribe to the podcast feed as well at Fantasy Pro's MLB, |
| 1:12.9 | before you know, we'll be here every single day talking baseball and leading off. And this year we're going to be doing our opening day special live together, the Welsh, myself. Maybe you can even get Scott Bogman, if you can wake up early enough to come join us, because we're all going to be out there for the Diamondbacks game. Welsh, I'm super excited. you and I have never been to a ball game together. |
| 1:11.7 | Um, no, we've been to a hockey game together. We've been to a basketball game together. We've played football together. We did a home run derby, but we have actually never been to a baseball game together. So you're going to be coming out here. Um, me, Bogman, we might have |
| 1:28.0 | have a few other crew. We are going to have to set up kind of a, some type of a live show where we'll be together. So we always do something fun right around opening day. Sometimes we dress like Mario. Sometimes I dress like the Tiger King we found out. But this year, we'll do a live show together. so it'll be pretty great, man. |
| 1:44.8 | Yes, we have to figure out whatever the next watermark is of what we dress up like when we hit the big YouTube number. Joe or Rico, I wish you were coming to join us. There's still tickets available, I heard. So why don't you take that flight down? You know, I'm just hearing about this So the first time now, guys. This is, this is upsetting to me. |
| 2:18.0 | But two trips to Arizona for you this year, I guess, Joe, because I've already heard that you're going to be there in November. So are we going to get Joey Pied at Fas this year, maybe? Maybe. I'm certainly thinking about it. It all depends on what my children allow me to do on their break as well, because they're off that week. So if I'm splitting the week, I might have to come out a couple days there in Arizona and then maybe a couple days somewhere else. They want to go to Chicago. We'll figure that out. But we're talking third base today, all the nonsense aside. So we're going to dig in here and let's start with the very top of our rankings, which you can find at fantasy bros.com, just click on MLB, go to the rankings here for the redraft. |
| 2:36.5 | And of course, it's no surprise at the top of those rankings this year. You're going to see Jose Ramirez. He is without a doubt, the number one guy that is not able to argue whatsoever. Junior Camerro coming in at number two, jazz chishman number three, Manny Machado at four, Austin Riley at five, Michael Garcia at six, and Alex Bregman, the newest member of the Chicago Cubs at seven, Eugno Suarez, what's old is new again, sort of, or I guess is new and old, I don't know, but Eugnoisseau is back with Cincinnati at number eight, Jordan Westberg at nine, Matt Chapman coming at 10 from San Fran. Noel Ve-Marte is still hanging around 11, although it looks like he might be ticketed now for a right field position now that Suarez is there in Isok Parades at 12. So let's start with the top here because it's kind of simple. You got Jose Ramirez. We've had a lot of conversations on these shows already about Junior Camerro, what it might look like now that he's moving from that little tiny ballpark back into Tampa. And then, of course, we know what Jazz Chis and we know what Mani Machado are. Let's talk about Austin Riley and Michael Garcia because I think these two right now are kind of choose your own adventure. |
| 3:41.9 | Austin Riley a couple years ago, breakout season looked like he was going to be a superstar. |
| 3:46.2 | And then there's been some struggles built in there. |
| 3:48.3 | Michael Garcia, another player I know Welsh, you are very high on as well. |
| 3:52.4 | That feels like a player that you have some upside still two to come. |
| 3:56.5 | I know he was one of our favorite guys. |
| 3:58.2 | I want to say it was last season, actually, in terms of return on investment. |
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