Fantasy Baseball Advice | MLB Risers & Fallers, Prospects to Know, Injury Updates (Ep. 1116)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) and KC Bubba (@bdentrek) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Michael Harris II - 0:00:33
Julio Rodriguez - 0:02:29
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - 0:04:34
Max Scherzer - 0:06:20
Matthew Boyd - 0:08:08
Bailey Ober - 0:09:37
Jose Ramirez - 0:11:08
Tarik Skubal - 0:13:17
Brenton Doyle - 0:15:22
Signed Billy Wagner Jersey Giveaway - 0:19:55
Transactions - 0:20:24
Rookie Lookie - 0:21:43
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:25:04
Eduardo Rodriguez, Bryce Elder, and Lourdes Gurriel - 0:25:06
Bradley Blalock, Edward Cabrera, and Ryan Helsley - 0:26:04
Injury Updates - 0:27:00
MLB Best Bets - 0:34:35
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:38:03
Outro - 0:38:57
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome into Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Leading Off Live. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, |
| 0:15.4 | joined for part two with KC. Bubba on the season. |
| 0:18.3 | We are going to be bringing you some headlines, |
| 0:20.0 | some injury updates, player news and notes, everything on the Fantasy. We are going to be bringing you some headlines, some injury updates, |
| 0:20.9 | player news and notes, everything on the fantasy baseball docket today. Bubba, great to be back with you, my friend. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. Always a pleasure to chat some ball with you, buddy. It'll be good. It's a Friday. So we'll get it in, get it out, and hopefully enjoy the weekend. We're going to wrap up the weekend style. |
| 0:38.1 | We got a lot of fun headlines on the docket today. |
| 0:40.9 | And with Joe Piazegon, I've decided to talk about Michael Harris the second. |
| 0:45.4 | He's on the gridiron screaming at me. |
| 0:47.6 | I can hear him through the headset by Michael Harris. |
| 0:50.8 | Pretty much since Joe has left, maybe a little bit before, has completely turned |
| 0:55.0 | his season around when three for four yesterday. He's now 40 for his last 105 over the last month, |
| 1:01.2 | which is a 381 batting average, 18 runs, seven homers, a couple of steals, six consecutive |
| 1:06.9 | multi-hit games, just in time for us to be suckered back into buying him next year, Bubba. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't know what to do with Michael Harris. |
| 1:14.3 | He was a second, third round picking a lot of rooms this year. |
| 1:17.0 | I have no idea what the price is going to be. |
| 1:18.9 | What are your thoughts on Harris overall? |
| 1:20.9 | Should we trust them going forward in 2025? |
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