Leading Off April 22nd, 2025 (Ep. 985)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17) and Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) 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
Nick Kurtz - 0:00:49
Max Meyer - 0:04:11
Walker Buehler - 0:07:13
Will Vest - 0:07:32
Tylor Megill - 0:11:50
Aaron Nola - 0:12:16
Transaction News - 0:14:32
Agustin Ramirez - 0:17:29
My Playbook - 0:22:08
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:22:42
Hunter Brown, Francisco Lindor, and Gavin Williams - 0:22:43
Randy Vasquez, Clarke Schmidt, and Alexis Diaz - 0:28:49
Injury Updates - 0:29:27
MLB Best Bets - 0:32:50
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:36:41
Outro - 0:39:41
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB. This is leading off live. It is me, Joey P. |
| 0:10.7 | Joe Beazapia with me, of course, is the Walsh, and it's all of you, my peanuts and crackerjacks |
| 0:15.7 | hanging out, talking a little baseball. We finally got the call-up we've been waiting for. We've got |
| 0:20.8 | a ton of injuries to talk about. |
| 0:22.9 | A couple big strikeout performances, but first and foremost, it's somebody's birthday. It's the |
| 0:29.4 | birthday boy, the Welsh turning 29. I can only assume. Happy birthday, big guy. What do you, |
| 0:36.5 | what are you doing on your special day? Oh, it's going to be sending you a bad letter for calling me big guy. What are you doing on your special day? |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, it's going to be sending you a bad letter for calling me big guy. |
| 0:42.5 | That's at the top, the tippy top of the insults. |
| 0:45.9 | You can call someone that is big and tall. |
| 0:48.5 | But yes, thank you very much. |
| 0:50.4 | I think I even mentioned this. |
| 0:52.4 | Greatest birthday present, Nick Kurtz coming to the majors, making his major league debut |
| 0:56.6 | on my birthday. |
| 0:57.4 | I couldn't ask for anything more. |
| 0:59.8 | Also going up against Patrick Corbyn, which will be hilarious just in full toe. |
| 1:04.7 | But thank you very much, my friends. |
| 1:06.3 | Glad to spend my birthday with all of you. |
| 1:09.4 | Yes, my Twitter timeline exploded all of a sudden everyone from the show just sending |
| 1:13.4 | me and tweeting at me, Nick Kurtz, oh my God. |
| 1:16.4 | And I hadn't looked at it in a while. |
| 1:17.6 | I was at practice flag football stuff. |
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