Leading Off: April 4th, 2025 (Ep. 967)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 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!
In this edition, the guys break down who'se trending up & down, examine their surprise starts, and take a look at which top prospects could get called up soon.
What players will be featured in today's best bets and home runs calls? The Pros let you know!
Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00:00
Yankee Stadium Concerns - 0:03:15
Listener Questions #1 - 0:06:52
Nick Lodolo (SP - CIN) - 0:07:21
Hunter Brown (SP - HOU) - 0:09:35
Triston Casas (1B - BOS) & Signs of Life for Boston - 0:09:43
Rookie Lookie: Logan Henderson (SP - MIL) & Bubba Chandler (SP - PIT) - 0:09:51
Listener Questions #2 - 0:12:52
Joe vs. Welsh BP Challenge Teaser - 0:14:02
3 Up: Aaron Judge (OF, DH - NYY), Nestor Cortes (SP - MIL) & Christian Walker (1B - HOU) - 0:15:41
3 Down: Merrill Kelly (SP - ARI), Joe Ryan (SP - MIN) & Jose Altuve (2B, OF - HOU) - 0:17:38
Injury Updates - 0:20:12
Freddie Freeman (1B - LAD) - 0:23:33
Listener Questions #3 - 0:25:54
Best Bets of the Day - 0:32:09
Home Run Board Update & Calls - 0:36:15
Outro - 0:38:45
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| 0:32.5 | Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Bros. MLB. |
| 0:40.0 | This is leading off live. It is me Joey P. |
| 0:45.5 | Joe P. Zapia. With me as always is the Welsh and it's you, the peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. |
| 0:51.8 | And what a great day. It's a fun Friday. Mets are at home. Juan Soto and the Home Whites. |
| 0:54.6 | Can't wait to see it in just a couple hours from now. Yeah, that's right. I'm excited about it. One of my new Mets shirts here. Told you, I haven't bought any |
| 1:00.1 | met stuff in a long time. I'm buying in. Also, even bigger news possibly. It is. Bigger news. |
| 1:07.6 | We did it, folks. 25,000 on the YouTube channel. Congratulations. |
| 1:12.4 | Shout out to all of you who watch the shows every day, listen to the shows every day. |
| 1:17.0 | We could not do this without you. |
| 1:18.4 | This is a huge milestone. |
| 1:20.2 | We are bigger than some other fantasy. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm talking about fantasy YouTube sites that do all sports, right? |
| 1:27.1 | The coveted NFL. well, we're bigger than |
| 1:29.7 | them now. And that's because of all of you, which means the Mario hat is on the way, Monday, |
| 1:35.8 | don't miss the show. Luigi, put your order in. What are you doing? I will. They got to |
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