Infielder ADP Battles: Derek VanRiper vs. Jeff Erickson (Ep. 937)
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) is joined by Derek VanRiper (@dvr.bsky.social) from The Athletic and Jeff Erickson (@Jeff_Erickson) from RotoWire for Part Two in our ADP Battle Series, and today the fellas tackle the infield!
There are two key battles at each position to help you make the best decisions ahead of your 2025 fantasy baseball drafts!
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Intro - 0:00:00
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J.T. Realmuto vs. Logan O’Hoppe - 0:05:09
Signed John Smoltz Jersey Giveaway - 0:07:30
Josh Naylor vs. Christian Walker - 0:07:58
Vinnie Pasquantino vs. Triston Casas - 0:10:37
Fantrax - 0:14:46
Jose Altuve vs. Ozzie Albies - 0:15:23
Brice Turang vs. Luis Garcia - 0:19:40
Rafael Devers vs. Manny Machado vs. Austin Riley - 0:24:22
Junior Caminero vs. Mark Vientos - 0:29:27
FantasyPros Draft Wizard - 0:33:41
Oneil Cruz vs. CJ Abrams - 0:34:22
Xander Bogaerts vs. Ezequiel Tovar - 0:38:03
Outro - 0:41:11
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome into Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:07.8 | This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, and today we're bringing you part two in our ADP battle series. |
| 0:14.8 | If you missed pitchers last week, be sure to check it out. |
| 0:17.0 | We are moving into the infield today. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm going to bring you guys two battles at each position, including catcher for a total of 10. |
| 0:23.2 | And we have a couple of fantastic guests on the show. |
| 0:25.9 | You're definitely familiar with both of their work. |
| 0:27.7 | Derek Van Riper from the Athletic and Jeff Erickson from Rotowire. |
| 0:30.9 | Fellas, I really appreciate you taking the time today. |
| 0:33.2 | How's it going? |
| 0:34.3 | It's going great. |
| 0:35.3 | Thanks for having us on. |
| 0:36.7 | Absolutely. Can't wait to battle here with Derek. |
| 0:39.4 | Right. |
| 0:40.6 | No, I'm very excited about this. |
| 0:43.2 | It's been a long time since Derek and I used to do pods together. |
| 0:46.1 | So it should be fun to do one together for a while. |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah, that was part of the reason when I was pairing people up for this. |
| 0:51.2 | I thought, okay, you guys know each other. We took a car ride together in Arizona to go down to one of the games. |
| 0:55.9 | I forget which one it was. |
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