Leading Off April 18th, 2025 (Ep. 981)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 47 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
Tyler Soderstrom - 0:05:01
Corbin Carroll - 0:08:20
Ketel Marte - 0:10:27
Cristopher Sanchez - 0:13:11
Kumar Rocker - 0:15:09
Patrick Corbin - 0:16:33
Alex Verdugo - 0:18:21
Griffin Canning - 0:18:40
Rookie Lookie - 0:25:25
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:26:54
Riley Greene, Mark Vientos, and Eduardo Rodriguez - 0:26:56
Microsoft Challenger Segment - 0:28:22
Taj Bradley, Tanner Bibee, and Jordan Hicks - 0:30:47
Injury Updates - 0:32:04
MLB Best Bets - 0:36:22
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:41:17
Outro - 0:43:29
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another spectacular match day, but what's this? |
| 0:03.5 | Looks like the fans are playing Coral's free reward shaker. |
| 0:06.9 | The half and half scarfers shaking decisively for once. |
| 0:10.0 | They backed a super boost. |
| 0:12.3 | Next to them, the prawn sandwich brigade. |
| 0:14.6 | Oh, they've shaken up a free bet after that free lunch. |
| 0:17.6 | Play Coral's free reward shaker to win guaranteed daily rewards and offers this season. |
| 0:22.3 | Coral, we're here for it. |
| 0:24.0 | 18 plus UK max one reward or offer per player per day. |
| 0:26.8 | Reward restrictions, requirements and teas and seas apply. |
| 0:29.0 | Gambleaware.org. |
| 0:35.0 | What is up, Frindles, and welcome in. |
| 0:55.2 | Happy Friday to everybody right here for leading off on the Fantasy Pros MLB channel. It's about to say YouTube channel, but no, we're live on Twitch. Twitch.tv slash Fantasy Pros. You can watch us Monday through Friday live as you are doing live right now. But all you YouTubers, we see you. We know what you're up to. If you want to come and hang live, do it. We would love to have you. Joe Pisapea |
| 0:59.9 | back in the seat next week. We've got Joe Rico. We traded in our Joe's for the week. Joe, how we |
| 1:05.1 | doing buddy? It's been a fantastic week, man. This is a really good getting to do shows with you consistently doing my job and |
| 1:11.6 | Joe's job has been a lot of fun this past week. I'm looking forward to having him back, |
| 1:14.9 | but it's been great getting to do shows with you all week, my friend. I like that you say that. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm not really looking forward to having Pia Pia back. I know I appreciate you are. I don't know |
| 1:23.9 | if the audience really is. You know, the show didn't work out yesterday. |
| 1:31.8 | I got some messages that people were like really excited that they got a little bit more Joe Rico. |
| 1:33.1 | They're like, oh, my God, thank God. |
| 1:34.3 | You don't have to have more Joe. |
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