Leading Off: April 23rd, 2025 (Ep. 986)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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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In this edition, the guys celebrate the good in San Diego Padres SP Nick Pivetta and a rising Washington Nationals OF Dylan Crews. They also update listeners on the Cleveland Guardians' closer situation and injuries from around the league!

From the "Best Bets of the Day" to "Rookie Lookie" and the "Home Run Calls of the Day," don't miss a second of the latest fantasy baseball action with The Pros!

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Introduction - 0:00:00

Nick Pivetta (SP - SD) - 0:00:27

FantasyPros MLB Channel Updates - 0:02:39

Dylan Crews (OF - WSH) - 0:03:17

Triston Casas (1B - BOS) - 0:05:41

Tanner Bibee (SP - CLE) - 0:06:02

Listener Questions #1 - 0:07:23

Marcus Semien (2B - TEX), Jake Burger (1B, 3B, DH - TEX) & Wyatt Langford (OF, DH - TEX) - 0:10:29

Kris Bubic (SP, RP - KC) & Carlos Estevez (RP - KC) - 0:11:23

Griffin Canning (SP - NYM) - 0:11:46

Cade Smith (RP - CLE) - 0:12:12

Ronald Acuna Jr. ( OF - ATL) - 13:43

Listener Questions #2 - 0:15:01

FantasyPros My Playbook App - 0:15:54

Rookie Lookie - 0:16:35

Listener Questions #3 - 0:21:09

3 Up: Christian Yelich (OF, DH - MIL), Ian Happ (OF - CHC) & Aaron Judge (OF, DH - NYY) - 0:24:57

3 Down: Jordan Hicks (SP, RP - SF), Osvaldo Bido (SP, RP - ATH) & Dustin May (SP - LAD) - 0:25:17

Injury Updates - 0:26:15

Microsoft Chasing Challenges - 0:27:53

Injury Updates Continued - 0:31:26

Listener Questions #4 - 0:32:37

Joe’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:34:07

Welsh’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:34:52

FanDuel Sportsbook - 0:36:49

Board Update & Home Run Calls of the Day - 0:37:04

Nick Kurtz (1B - ATH) | +560 - 0:37:28

Wilyer Abreu (OF - BOS) | +390 - 0:37:48

Outro - 0:40:33

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0:35.7	Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB. This is leading off live. It's me Joey P. Joe Pzepia.
0:42.3	And with me, of course, is the Welsh. And it's all of you hanging out here, the peanuts and the
0:46.1	Cracker Jacks talking baseball. We've got another injury in the Phillies rotation we're going to get to
0:50.7	today. Yikes, that's not good. And of course, it wouldn't be a baseball season without a Corey Seeger injury.
0:56.9	But Welsh, I think we've got to start at the top, which is the Padres, Michael Callie's
1:01.4	Padres, the class of baseball at the tippy top of the West.
1:05.9	And Nick Pavetta, arguably the best guy in the rotation, are we in the upside down?
1:10.7	Well, I mean, Michael King is still there. But to your point, oh, well, you know, actually more to your credit.
1:15.1	Nick Povetta, I looked at some of the early Siam stuff that's going out there.
1:19.4	Nick Povetta is in that top three, I think, for Sion Awards in the NL still crazy, crazy early.
1:25.6	But a total, total benefit later in fantasy drafts that
1:30.2	you got. Big strikeouts. ERA is super low. Expected ERA is under three. He looks phenomenal.
1:36.5	Good one-two punch of Michael King and him. And Povetta, it's kind of a question, though. Is Povetta
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