Leading Off: April 9th, 2025 (Ep. 970)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 40 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 share their condolences for the banged up San Diego Padres, plus former stud arms like Boston Red Sox SP Garrett Crochet and Atlanta Braves SP Chris Sale, who are struggling out of the gate. They also check in on Minor League prospects, who are pressing the issue, and veteran Major League players like Pittsburgh Pirates SP Paul Skenes, who are letting fantasy managers down.
From headlines to best bets and home run calls, The Pros step back into the batter's box!
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Introduction - 0:00:00
Listener Question #1 - 0:03:07
San Diego Padres - 0:03:26
Garrett Crochet (SP - BOS) - 0:04:59
Cole Ragans (SP - KC) & Clay Holmes (SP, RP - NYM) - 0:07:01
James Wood (OF - WSH) - 0:07:48
Zac Veen (OF - COL) - 0:09:00
Chris Sale (SP - ATL) & Zack Wheeler (SP - PHI) - 0:09:14
My Playbook - 0:09:52
Rookie Lookie & Listener Question #2- 0:11:34
3 Up: Framber Valdez (SP - HOU), Freddy Peralta (SP - MIL) & Kyle Schwarber (OF, DH - PHI) - 0:17:55
3 Down: Dylan Cease (SP - SD), Kyle Freeland (SP - COL) & Paul Skenes (SP - PIT) - 0:19:26
Injury Updates - 0:21:16
Microsoft Chasing Challenges - 0:24:49
FanDuel Sportsbook - 0:28:38
Joe’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:28:50
Welsh’s Bets of the Day - 0:30:29
Listener Question #3 - 0:32:16
Board Update & Home Run Calls of the Day - 0:35:17
Shohei Ohtani (SP, DH - LAD) | +260 - 0:36:23
Gunnar Henderson (SS - BAL) | +450 - 0:36:30
Listener Question #4 - 0:37:23
Outro - 0:37:39
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another spectacular match day, but what's this? |
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| 0:35.4 | Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:37.9 | This is leading off live. |
| 0:39.4 | It is me, Joey P, Joe Pizapia. |
| 0:41.1 | That, of course, is the Welsh with Puppet Joe, and it's you, the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks, |
| 0:44.8 | hanging out here talking baseball and a lot of injuries as well. |
| 0:49.4 | Welsh, I don't know who is in charge of the MLB schedule, but these day games in 40 degree weather in Detroit, these April games in Colorado in early April, what are we doing here? |
| 1:03.6 | Guys are hurt everywhere. |
| 1:05.5 | I have no idea why Major League Baseball can't just say, let's open up in the West Coast or controlled environments as much much as we can try to limit all this stuff, at least until we get towards the end of April. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know what's wrong. It's very easy. Everybody plays everybody. It's not a, it, it makes my head hurt. I might explode before the show starts. |
| 1:24.0 | But what are you going to do? Like what I mean, like, everybody doing. No, no, but like there's only so many West Coast teams. |
| 1:30.3 | There's like five or six. |
| 1:32.6 | Every, the old MLB for the entire month is going to come over and then. |
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