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Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host Joe O'Riko, joined today by a very special guest.

He is Steve Gardner from the USA today.

Steve, it's great to talk with you.

I know we've seen each other typically every year in Arizona. We actually played around to golf together a couple years ago at the Bubba in the Blue Invitational. It's always great getting to talk with you, man. How are you doing today? Doing great, Joe. How's your golf game these days? It's a little tough being in Toronto. It's just so cold. I've gone to a couple of golf simulators over the winter just to actually get to take a couple swings, but

I try to do the Toronto, it's just so cold. I've gone to a couple of golf simulators over the winter just to

actually get to take a couple swings. But, you know, I try to do the conversion between Celsius

and Fahrenheit in my head. It's like single digits, maybe in the teens, Fahrenheit over the last

week. So not much golfing recently, but I hope to hit the links very soon. Have you been, have you been

getting out there yet? Not too much, but I hope to hit the links very soon. Have you been, have you been getting out there yet?

Not too much, but the weather is sufficiently warming up here in the nation's capital area.

So hopefully I'll be out there soon. Get this fantasy baseball draft stuff, get the baseball season off to a good start.

And I can breathe a little bit easier. I'm sure you probably can too. Absolutely. You know, we do so much work in the preseason, all the live streams and the drafts and updating rankings. And then once the season starts, ironically, things kind of calm down a little bit. But I tend to hit the links on Saturdays. Sunday is always setting the lineups for the next week and doing fab. So hopefully we'll get out there a few times. And I hope to see you again at the next bubble in the Bloom Invitational in November. I think it'll be the fifth time. But we're not here to talk golf. We're here to talk baseball. We're going to be talking about some spring training risers. We're going to talk about some projections, too, that we might disagree on. We're going to start there.

But first, we're going to talk about some projections too that we might disagree on we're going to start there but first we're going to give something away real quick and that is a fancy

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