Cleaning Up: Contract Extensions, A Lack of Stolen Bases, and The Slumping Braves (Ep. 964)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Join Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) as they tackle your questions live on Discord every Wednesday of the season at 2 PM EST at fantasypros.com/chat.
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Intro - 0:00:00
Jack Leiter 0:01:23
Rounding Out Your Bench - 0:05:28
Trade Bobby Witt and Ronald Acuna for Shohei Ohtani? - 0:13:00
Concerns With The Braves Lineup -
0:16:16
FantasyPros Discord - 0:21:15
Jackson Merrill and Kristian Campbell Extensions - 0:22:23
Tylor Megill, Casey Mize, or Dustin May? - 0:26:51
Drop Michael Toglia for Ben Rice? - 0:27:55
George Kirby’s Shoulder - 0:29:05
Tyler O’Neill or Cedric Mullins? - 0:33:38
Lack of Stolen Bases - 0:34:35
Cam Smith - 0:36:47
Buy Low on Roki Sasaki? - 0:38:14
Outro - 0:43:42
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, friends? |
| 0:06.0 | And welcome in to Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Baseball podcast on the Fantasy Pro's Discord. |
| 0:11.8 | This is cleaning up the podcast after the podcast before the next podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | We are live on the Fantasy Pro's Discord where you guys can literally make the show. |
| 0:23.4 | We are here to answer your questions. |
| 0:25.0 | We're here to hear your voice. |
| 0:27.0 | Mr. Joe Rico and myself, we are talking some fantasy baseball. |
| 0:30.7 | You guys can be a part of the Discord, |
| 0:32.3 | fantasy pros.com slash chat. |
| 0:34.7 | You can sign up and you can jump into the show. |
| 0:39.6 | You can hear before it airs into the podcast world and you can be a part of it. We've got a pretty awesome community and there's some |
| 0:43.9 | cool premium stuff that you can check out into the future. We'll tell you more about that in a little |
| 0:48.3 | bit. Mr. Joe Rico, we are going to be chatting with some of our awesome people here on one of the best |
| 0:55.4 | pitching days on the planet. |
| 0:57.9 | We are currently watching Paul Skeins and Cole Regans. |
| 1:01.4 | We've got Garrett Crochet going. |
| 1:03.1 | Freddie Peralta is going. |
| 1:05.0 | McKenzie Gore is going a little bit later today. |
| 1:08.0 | So I don't want to go too much into it because it's hindsight for when people are listening to this. But just a phenomenal pitching matchup into |
| 1:14.8 | second rotation. So we can start making some real calculated decisions because we are trying to |
| 1:20.0 | help people avoid from insane panicking. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Yeah. The thing that |
| 1:26.0 | stands out to me from the slate so far is just jack lighter i mean he's |
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