Leading Off April 17th, 2025 (Ep. 979)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch! Make sure you follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/fantasypros and never miss a stream!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Brent Rooker/Nick Kurtz - 0:01:43
Spencer Strider - 0:05:10
Chris Bassitt - 0:07:52
Bobby Miller - 0:09:47
Michael Toglia - 0:11:56
Max Meyer - 0:12:39
Jackson Holliday - 0:12:57
Gavin Williams - 0:13:36
Christian Walker - 0:15:22
David Bednar - 0:18:32
Rookie Lookie - 0:18:57
Kyzatrex - 0:26:48
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:29:26
Cal Raleigh, Chris Bassitt, and Patrick Corbin - 0:29:29
German Marquez, Aaron Nola, and Golden Sombreros - 0:31:18
Injury Updates - 0:31:57
MLB Best Bets - 0:35:20
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:39:29
Outro - 0:42:29
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| 0:29.2 | Take time to think. |
| 0:35.0 | What's up, friend those, and welcome into Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:37.8 | This is leading off with the peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, the Welsh, that's me, Joe Rico, that's him. |
| 0:44.0 | We're coming off of a marathon of shows that we did yesterday, but a lot of good stuff to talk about. |
| 0:50.0 | Spencer Strider breakdowns. |
| 0:52.3 | A certain somebody is back in the outfield. |
| 0:54.5 | We've got bets. |
| 0:55.6 | We got a ton of it. |
| 0:56.9 | Joe Rico, what's up, buddy? |
| 0:58.0 | You ready to do the fifth show in 24 hours that we've done together? |
| 1:01.9 | Yeah, man, absolutely. |
| 1:02.9 | I mean, that's kind of regular for you on Wednesday, right? |
| 1:05.1 | I guess just every Wednesday is kind of a bit of a marathon for you at this point although we are going to be moving cleaning up to mondays i think but right now wednesday every wednesday seems like saving the surprise saving the |
| 1:15.5 | surprise for everybody joe there you go i didn't know it's cat out of the bag i didn't know it's |
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