Busts. Breakouts, Must-Draft Rookies & Must-Have Players From Fantasy Baseball's Top Analysts | The Best of FantasyPros Fantasy Fest (Ep. 943)
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh, Ryan Wormeli, and Mike Maher were joined by some of the industry's BEST experts for our 4-hour long FantasyPros Fantasy Fest, the biggest fantasy baseball event of the year! Today's show consists of some of the best moments from the livestream. Want to watch the whole thing? Head over to our FantasyPros MLB YouTube channel at youtube.com/fantasyprosmlb. Don't forget to subscribe and drop a like if you love what we do and want more content just like this!
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00:00Favorite MLB Bets w/ Derek Carty - 0:00:49White Sox Win Total - 0:01:00How to unit bet futures win totals bets? - 0:03:27Garrett Crochet to lead the league in strikeouts - 0:06:43 Risky Players to Avoid - 0:11:27James Wood - 0:13:22CJ Abrams - 0:19:59Use the Mock Draft Simulator - 0:25:10Must-Have Players - 0:26:20Brent Rooker - 0:26:40Spencer Schwellenbach - 0:30:50Who's the better investment: Spencer Schwellenbach vs. Spencer Strider? - 0:34:07Get ready for your draft with the Draft Assistant! - 0:35:20Breakout Hitters - 0:36:33Garrett Mitchell - 0:37:00Matt Shaw - 0:40:03Jackson Holliday - 0:44:06Leading Off on Twitch - 0:48:38Breakout Pitchers - 0:50:11Max Meyer / Ryan Weathers - 0:50:39Sandy Alcantara - 0:55:22Brandon Pfaadt - 0:57:28Track all your bets with the BettingPros App - 1:01:41Gavin Williams - 1:02:35Must Draft Rookies w/ Eric Cross - 1:07:45Kristian Campbell - 1:08:19Jasson Dominguez - 1:14:43
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast. It is me, Joey P. Joe P. Zapia. And in case you missed it yesterday, on our YouTube channel, we had our Fantasy Baseball Fest 2025. And lucky for you, if you missed it, it's still up there on the channel right now. So go back and watch it on demand at your leisure over the weekend, |
| 0:21.9 | but if you're on the go today |
| 0:23.4 | and you wanna hear some of the best of the fest, |
| 0:25.5 | well guess what? |
| 0:26.4 | It's your lucky day because we have it here |
| 0:28.3 | right here on our audio channels |
| 0:30.9 | here on Fantasy Pros, wherever you get your podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | subscribe today, and when you go to the YouTube channel, |
| 0:35.6 | subscribe over there too. |
| 0:36.8 | We're trying to get the 25,000 subscribers for opening day, and we can do it with your help. We had a star-studded |
| 0:43.6 | affair with the best minds and fantasy baseball to get you ready to dominate all your leagues. |
| 0:49.0 | So without further ado, let's kick off the best of the fest as the Welsh and I sat down with |
| 0:53.9 | Derek Cardi to talk |
| 0:55.3 | about some of the best bets you can make in Major League Baseball in 2025. |
| 0:59.6 | I want to start with a low win total here of the Chicago White Sox because Derek Cardi, |
| 1:05.3 | that's where you're starting. And I understand White Sox are bad. And I love that small numbers sometimes are easy Ws. |
| 1:13.2 | But I want to hear the reasoning behind this white socks over on the win total. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, I'm sure this is the first bet that everybody that's tuning in want to hear. |
| 1:23.3 | You tune in to hear me talk about why the white socks are going to be good this year. |
| 1:28.4 | I think you did this with the A's last year, didn't you? |
| 1:31.2 | It's like you just got to pick the bottom barrel of it all. |
| 1:34.2 | I love it, Cardi. |
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