Fantasy Baseball Advice | MLB Risers & Fallers, Rookie Rundown & Injury Updates (Ep. 1120)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Nick Kurtz - 0:00:26
Tyler Soderstrom - 0:01:31
Extended Chat Q&A - 0:02:17
Transactions - 0:26:03
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:26:39
Jesus Sanchez, Brenton Doyle, and Chandler Simpson - 0:26:40
Justin Verlander, Mackenzie Gore, and Joe Boyle - 0:27:04
Injury Updates - 0:30:25
MLB Best Bets - 0:37:37
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:39:21
Outro - 0:42:17
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, this is Matt Jones. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Drew Franklin. |
| 0:07.4 | And this is NFL cover zero. |
| 0:10.0 | We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. |
| 0:14.9 | Did you see the Colts pretzel? |
| 0:16.4 | That was my other big takeaway from that game. |
| 0:17.7 | What was that? |
| 0:18.7 | Oh my. |
| 0:20.0 | We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. So listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin, starting on August 28th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:43.9 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome into Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:48.2 | This is leading off live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, |
| 0:51.9 | and I'm going to be taking you through today's show, |
| 0:54.3 | through today's show solo. |
| 1:15.7 | We're off to a great start here because Casey Bubba is having some Wi-Fi issues. So I'm going to be taking your questions, running through some of the headlines, the injuries, best bets of the day. We're going to try and keep it as normal of the show as possible. But get your questions into the chat and I will be answering them. but we are going to start off with some headlines from around Major League Baseball yesterday, starting off with Nick Kurtz. He had his 26th home run of the season on Thursday. He's actually been leading off for the athletics recently, which is |
| 1:20.7 | not something that I really expected considering his power. He's leading Major League Baseball |
| 1:24.5 | in OPS in the second half, but he's been leading off in Oakland, or for the athletics, I should say. Now, Bubba was going to be here, and we were going to talk about an early draft that he took part in on Wednesday night, where Nick Kurtz went as the 17th overall pick in that draft. I want to get your guys comments below about what you think on that number. |
| 1:44.4 | Is 17 off the top of your head? |
| 1:46.0 | Does it feel too high for Nick Kurtz? Does it feel too low? Does it feel about right? One pick after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. So that one was kind of interesting to me. Not sure if he's going to end up there consistently, but I do understand it considering the power that we've seen from him. He's hitting for a decent batting average. |
| 1:42.0 | He's done everything, especially considering that ballpark and the good lineup around him. |
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