What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Baseball Podcast.

I'm Chris Welsh, that's Joe Rico.

And today we're talking about projections who love these players, or players that projections

are loving.

We're looking at some of the bigger projections out there from ATC to

steamer to the bat. And we are going to look at some players that really pop. We've got 10

players that projections love this year. Joe Rico, and whether you love projections or not,

I guess that's a whole other sticky situation across the board. And it is always funny when some of these major systems will aggressively disagree,

even in like a positive way where a guy really pops.

But we're going to talk about some of these guys today.

And how much does projections weigh into your valuation on players?

It's become a huge part of the process over the last couple of years.

I feel like every year that goes by, I rely less on my own observations and more on the data.

As much as I watch a ton of games and I go through this stuff constantly like you do, like we all do,

there's only so much you can do.

And when you rely on the numbers, especially for the rate stats, I find, you're not going to be better at projecting batting average or ERA or WIP or things

like that than the systems are. You can make adjustments for things like playing time if you think

a guy is going to have a bigger role than expected, but I've come to really rely on them,

especially for those rates stats over the last couple of years. Yeah, and whether you put 100% valuation into projections or I wouldn't say put zero,

I definitely think a good way to use projections at the minimalist point is as a reference point

and go and, you know, okay, this is where this guy is.

Maybe it's a confirmation by, you know, it's confirming something you're already feeling

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