Leading Off: April 3rd, 2025 (Ep. 965)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 37 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!
In this edition, the guys break down big nights for Los Angeles Dodgers SP/DH Shohei Ohtani and St. Louis Cardinals C Iván Herrera. They also take an inside look at rookies who are making moves, plus veterans who are trending up and down.
What players will be featured in today's best bets and home runs calls? The Pros let you know!
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Introduction - 0:00:00
Shohei Ohtani (SP, DH - LAD) - 0:01:37
Rafael Devers (3B, DH - BOS) - 0:02:45
Kristian Campbell (2B, SS, CF) - 0:03:21
Ketel Marte (2B, DH - ARI) - 0:04:45
Ivan Herrera (C - STL) - 0:05:10
Paul Skenes (SP - PIT), Freddy Peralta (SP - MIL) & Cole Ragans (SP - KC) - 0:07:53
Mackenzie Gore (SP - WAS) - 0:09:37
Listener Questions - 0:11:37
Dennis Santana (RP - PIT) - 0:13:35
Clay Holmes (RP - NYM) - 0:15:18
FantasyPros Twitch - 0:16:27
Rookie Lookie - 0:17:19
3 Up: Zac Gallen (SP - ARI), Hunter Greene (SP - CIN) & Zack Wheeler (SP - PHI) - 0:19:53
3 Down: Blake Snell (SP - LAD), Sean Burke (SP - CWS) & Mark Vientos (3B - NYM) - 0:21:12
Kyzatrex - 0:21:51
Injury Updates - 0:24:24
Best Bets of the Day - 0:26:24
FanDuel - 0:30:13
Home Run Board Update & Calls - 0:30:33
Listener Questions - 0:32:32
Outro- 0:35:57
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:07.9 | This is leading off live. |
| 0:09.6 | And it's me Joey P. |
| 0:10.5 | Joe Pizapia with me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's all of you, the Peanuts and the |
| 0:14.6 | Cracker Jacks, live here on our Twitch, twitch. |
| 0:17.2 | Twitch.tv slash Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:19.3 | That's the place to be if you want to watch us live |
| 0:21.1 | and I see every single day more of you showing up, more of you watching on Twitch, which is cool, |
| 0:25.5 | but if you can't watch us live on Twitch, you just don't have the time, or if this is a bad |
| 0:29.8 | time for you, don't fret, don't worry, baby. Everything's going to be all right. You can watch us on the YouTube channel and we are dangerously close to |
| 0:38.9 | 25,000 subscribers, which is very exciting because that means, do, do, do, that's right. Mario and |
| 0:45.7 | Luigi will be Monday if we can get over 25,000. We are so close right now, Welsh, so close. We're |
| 0:50.9 | like one brick away. Yeah, we're definitely like, I don't know if it's a brick, but it's probably like one mushroom. |
| 0:56.6 | You know, we have to go down the one tunnel and then we can get a couple gold coins. |
| 1:00.2 | We're very, very close. |
| 1:01.6 | Mario and Luigi, what everybody's always asked for. |
| 1:04.6 | I got to be honest with you, I don't know how we do a show is that. |
| 1:07.3 | What's the theme? We can't be like, oh, you know, hey, it's a show Hey Otani, |
| 1:12.4 | and we can't do the voices the whole show. So I don't know what the, what we'll roll with. |
| 1:17.4 | I just, I think we do the show straight and just don't acknowledge the fact that that's what |
| 1:21.4 | we're wearing. I think that's, I think that's the big. That's my jam. We never acknowledge it. It's just a regular show. That's what it is. |
| 1:28.2 | But we've got a lot to get to today. |
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