Derek Van Ryper

I know do your own research is a loaded thing to say, but...

I think there are instances in which we are being misguided by the actual projections that are out there.

If everybody's using them, you have to veer a little bit.

You've got to zig when everyone else zags.

Otherwise, you'll probably have a good team.

You'll probably be top half or maybe even finish in the money every year.

But I think what's going to separate the good players from the great players is having some of your own ideas and actually implementing them.

I think we undervalued this class in particular, and that's not something that happens in fantasy draft seasons very often.

I think about where J.J.

Weatherholt was being drafted, where Kevin McGonigal was being drafted.

I think they were pretty consistently outside the top 200 overall in a lot of drafts, so pretty late-round picks.

Definitely not the typical higher-end guys that get jumped up into the top 100 as you get to those drafts closer to opening day.

I think some of the uncertainty around when the Pirates were going to debut Connor Griffin kind of kept his price in check for most of the spring.

I think our collective skepticism about Munetaka Murakami's high strikeout rates in Japan, you know, kept interest in him somewhat limited from a fantasy perspective.

And his numbers are certainly pulling up this rookie class, you know, whether or not you want to count Murakami.

first-year players from Japan and Korea as part of the rookie class.

I think that's another debate that we could have at some point.

But they're in there.

They're in the numbers.

And we underestimated them, plain and simple.