Fantasy Baseball Advice | MLB Risers & Fallers, Prospects to Know, Injury Updates (Ep. 1109)

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

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Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!

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Intro - 0:00:00
Autographed Juan Gonzalez Giveaway Winner Announcement - 0:01:43
Autographed Billy Wagner Jersey Giveaway - 0:02:24
New York Yankees vs. Miami Marlins - 0:03:06
Luis Gil (SP - NYY) - 0:06:20
Cristopher Sanchez (SP - PHI) - 0:08:24
Jhoan Duran (RP - PHI) - 0:08:53
Jacob Misiorowski (SP, RP - MIL) - 0:09:48
Logan Henderson (SP - MIL) - 0:10:55
Dylan Cease (SP - SD) - 0:12:35
James Wood (OF, DH - WSH) - 0:13:49
Rookie Lookie - 0:18:46
Prospecting With the Welsh - 0:21:25
Bubba Chandler (SP - PIT) - 0:21:58
Dylan Beavers (OF - BAL) - 0:25:17
JJ Wetherholt (SS - STL) - 0:27:22
Robby Snelling (SP - MIA) - 0:28:22
Kohl Drake (SP - ARI) - 0:29:05
Listener Questions #1 - 0:30:40
3 Up: Spencer Horwitz (1B, 2B - PIT), Brice Turang (2B - MIL) & Edward Cabrera (SP - MIA) - 0:35:26
3 Down: Frankie Montas (SP - NYM), Luis Gil (SP - NYY) & Ryan McMahon (3B - NYY) - 0:35:49
Injury Updates - 0:36:09
Welsh’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:39:48
Orrico’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:41:13
BettingPros App - 0:42:24
FanDuel Sportsbook - 0:43:00
Board Updates & Home Run Calls - 0:43:25
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (1B, 3B, DH - TOR) | +350 - 0:44:13
Ketel Marte (2B, DH - ARI) | +270 - 0:44:34
Outro - 0:44:50

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.4	The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen podcasts on movies.
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0:20.8	Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films. darkened air-conditioned theater and a great movie playing right in front of you.
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0:30.2	the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:40.1	What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros MLB.
0:43.7	This is leading off, a new era of leading off, at least through the rest of the season.
0:48.3	It is me, Chris Welsh, hosting pretty much through the rest of the season with the great and powerful Joe Arico, Joe Rico rocking,
0:56.3	which I like a very nice Blue Jays hat.
0:59.2	I'm rocking Savannah bananas today.
1:01.2	And we got a whole bunch to cover in our first full week of some August episodes and first full week without Joe Pisa Pia.
1:09.8	So we will talk glowingly about Jack Leiter, Michael Harris. All the training wheels are off. We can do whatever we want. Mom's gone. Dad is gone. We can do whatever we've got going down. What's up, Joe Rico? How are you doing, buddy? I'm doing really well, man. It's always fun. You know, I did this last year and I've, you know, periodically been on shows throughout the season but it's fun man it's good when we get to do shows together you and i have done a lot of shows over the year so we got a little bit of a shorthand and now we got joe pza p out here we got that cranky old man out of here so let's have some fun brother yeah get all that cranky stuff out of here uh baby bill Billy asking on the football side how I'm doing.
1:44.8	If you did not see it, we dropped over the weekend. It's a hot takes episode where we
1:51.4	consumed hot sauce, me, Bogman and Andrew Erickson. And it's a pretty decent listen through like 30
1:58.1	minutes in the last 30 minutes just off the rails absolutely
2:02.2	off phenomenal episode it was amazing i hope we can recreate that on the baseball side i think we're
2:07.0	kind of working through those plans but if you haven't seen that like go go watch the video don't
2:11.8	listen to the audio watch the video if you can you're going to laugh your ass off we'll do that for
2:16.7	sure uh we got a lot to cover in the episode.
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