Fantasy Baseball Advice | Players Trending Up & Down, Prospects to Watch, MLB Injury Updates (Ep. 1076)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!
Join Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and the Peanuts & Cracker Jacks at 12 p.m. ET at twitch.tv/fantasypros every weekday for industry-leading fantasy baseball advice and to have your questions answered on the stream!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Signed Juan Gonzalez Jersey Giveaway - 0:00:55
Spencer Schwellenbach - 0:01:55
Jacob Misiorowski - 0:04:59
Hunter Brown - 0:08:24
Marcus Semien - 0:08:41
Dylan Cease - 0:11:12
Clayton Kershaw - 0:13:45
Sean Manaea - 0:18:52
Luis Ortiz - 0:19:13
Transactions - 0:25:48
Masataka Yoshida - 0:29:03
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:29:34
Mitch Keller, Addison Barger, and Davis Schneider - 0:29:35
Will Warren, Mick Abel, and Nick Kurtz - 0:30:57
Injury Updates - 0:31:18
MLB Best Bets - 0:36:38
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:40:05
Outro - 0:41:35
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Jeff Perlman. |
| 0:05.4 | And I'm Rick Jervis. |
| 0:06.3 | We're journalists and hosts of the podcast Finding Sexy Sweat. |
| 0:09.4 | At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne, aspiring reporter and rapper who went |
| 0:14.3 | by Sexy Sweat. |
| 0:15.7 | A couple years ago, we set out to find him. |
| 0:17.9 | But in 2020, Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down, and he never woke up. |
| 0:22.3 | But then I see, my son's not moving. |
| 0:24.6 | So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to finding sexy sweat on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | What's up, friends, and welcome in to leading off right here on Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Chris Welsh. |
| 0:45.3 | No, Joe Pizapia. |
| 0:49.9 | He's on the beach, laid out, bald head in the sun. |
| 0:53.2 | Joe Rico is filling in north of the border here. |
| 0:56.0 | Joe Rico and I breaking down all the latest and greatest in MLB on the final show of the week. No show on Friday taking it off for the 4th of July. |
| 1:02.9 | I've got some birthdays to celebrate. Mr. Joe Rico, we talked about a few things on the live stream |
| 1:07.4 | yesterday that we're going to have to carry back over. But how goes it, my friend? |
| 1:11.4 | It's going pretty well. |
| 1:12.6 | You know, we've got the long weekend ahead. I'm going to be getting out of the city with a few friends. Like a big group of us are going to be heading away to a cottage. So looking forward to getting away, but also looking forward to chatting some baseball, my friend. Well, we'll try to answer some questions today. So if you're hanging out, make sure that you drop some questions in can get you also entered in to our contest. |
| 1:33.1 | Yes, you can have an opportunity to win a Juan Gonzalez autograph jersey courtesy of our friends over at pristine auction.com. |
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