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Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

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I'm your host Joe O'Riko, joined today by Kelly Kirby.

She is our resident penguin here at Fantasy Pros. And I would argue if your company doesn't have a resident penguin, you're not a legitimate operation, not in the slightest Kelly. How are you doing? Great to talk with you. We only do a couple shows a year, so I was really, really look forward to getting behind the mic with you. I always look forward to talking to you, probably because we don't have to do it much. I'm like, oh, hey, look, O'Riko and I

are going to get to chat. No, I agree with you entirely. I think a penguin should be at the top of everyone's list. Everybody knows the penguins are more interested in baseball in the winter anyway. And so, yeah, I'm totally stoked to do this with you. Where I am right now, it feels like a penguin could walk by at any moment.

It's like negative 15 Celsius.

I'm not sure what the conversion could walk by at any moment it's like negative 15

Celsius I'm not sure what the conversion is to Fahrenheit but it's probably like 15 or 20

Fahrenheit it's bad it's rough out there penguin could come up at any moment but today we're

talking about who we are taking in the first round of our 2026 fantasy baseball drafts we're

ramping up our coverage here we've already done a bunch of podcasts and we are goings. We're ramping up our coverage here.

We've already done a bunch of podcasts. And we are going to continue to be ramping up the coverage. So make sure you guys are subscribing to the channel. Commenting below, who are you taking on the first round? Who are you avoiding? Who are players that maybe are going in the second round that you think are first round players? Let us know all that below in the comments. But we are going to be going through the first round we've broken it up into kind of many tiers within the rounds

and we're going to be going through the first round.

We've broken it up into kind of mini tiers within the rounds. And we're going to start at the top because where else would we start with Shohei Otani and Aaron Judge? Now, we're looking at the NFBC's ADP for this. I think it's probably the best place to look for ADP this time of year. the major sites that a lot of people play on,

the Yahoo's and ESPNs aren't open yet.

And then it's probably the best place to look for ADP this time of year. The major sites that a lot of people play on, the Yahoo's and ESPNs aren't open yet. And NFBC people are putting real money. A

lot of the time it's 50, 150, 250, $250 leagues. So people are putting their money where their mouth is

in these formats. At the top, it's Otani and Judge. Otani goes slightly ahead, but the ADP is 1.2 for Otani, 1.9 for Judge. They're kind of alternating as the first pick. Otani slightly more often. But, Kelly, do you have a strong preference here on who goes as the first pick in 2026 drafts? If you get the first pick, is it an easy decision for you? It basically is for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not a giant fan of Judge

just in general, but I would go, Tani. I wouldn't think twice about it. As long as he's like

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