Leading Off April 24th, 2025 (Ep. 988)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 41 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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Intro - 0:00:00
Corbin Carroll - 0:00:26
Signs of Life - 0:01:51
Porter Hodge - 0:04:09
Sandy Alcantara - 0:05:53
Almost Cinco Stinkos - 0:07:37
The Orioles - 0:12:17
Shane McClanahan - 0:13:12
Blake Snell - 0:13:33
Rookie Lookie - 0:18:08
Fun Facts - 0:20:35
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:22:09
Brady Singer, Zack Wheeler, and Andrew Heaney - 0:22:11
Matthew Boyd, Bowden Francis, and Kumar Rocker - 0:22:50
Kyzatrex - 0:26:14
Injury Updates - 0:28:57
MLB Best Bets - 0:31:37
HR Boars and HR Calls - 0:36:26
Outro - 0:38:39
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is leading off live. It is me, Joey Pee. |
| 0:10.3 | Joe Pizapia with me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's you, The Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks, live here on Twitch. |
| 0:16.2 | Twitch.tv.com.T.V.S.I. See you all filing in. Welcome to the show, everybody. And of course, |
| 0:21.2 | if you're watching us on demand on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel trying to get to 30K. |
| 0:25.9 | Welsh, it was a fun day of baseball, some more injury setbacks for pitchers we've got to talk about. |
| 0:31.3 | But your boy, Corbyn Carroll, is tearing up the league right now. |
| 0:35.2 | Quite good. Quite good would be a good way to put it. |
| 0:38.3 | Two home runs. |
| 0:40.1 | MVP candidate right now. |
| 0:41.9 | Don't know if that can hold with guys like Shohei Otani, pretty tough space to be in over in the NL. |
| 0:47.4 | But Corbyn Carroll looks like one of the best players in baseball. |
| 0:51.1 | He reworked his swing a bit. |
| 0:52.9 | That up inside zone where whatever it was, |
| 0:55.7 | shoulder that everybody got picking on. You're not seeing hitters be able to attack that much anymore. |
| 1:01.1 | He's not stealing as many bases, but I believe he's tied or near the league lead of homers, |
| 1:06.4 | or at least in the NL. He is phenomenal, Joey. And you love to see it. And it makes you want to think to go |
| 1:13.7 | back to where in the world are Welsh and Corbyn Carroll. But Corbyn's gone and he's left me behind |
| 1:19.0 | and rightfully so at this point. He's way more famous than you, at least for now. Yeah. |
| 1:24.1 | For always. Showy Otani, still top of the board or NL MVP, plus 320, Corby Carroll plus 400, |
| 1:29.6 | Tatis plus 400, Kyle Tucker plus 400. |
| 1:32.7 | And then two Metsis. |
| 1:34.4 | Alonzo plus seven and Lindor at 20 to want. |
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