Leading Off August 2nd, 2024 (Ep. 879)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It’s Joey P’s (@JoePisapia17) final Leading Off for the year, and Coby Mayo finally got the call to the bigs. Meanwhile, Junior Caminero is still in the minors, Mike Trout got some very bad news, Trevor Rogers’ struggles continued, and was Seth Lugo the best value of draft season? Come join Joe and Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) for the news, injury updates, best bets of the day, and much more! Intro - 0:00:00 Coby Mayo - 0:01:08 Junior Caminero - 0:02:43 Max Meyer - 0:06:25 Jose Ramirez - 0:10:03 Trevor Rogers - 0:11:35 Mike Trout - 0:12:10 Carson Fulmer - 0:19:31 Seth Lugo - 0:19:36 Deyvison De Los Santos - 0:19:51 Heston Kjerstad - 0:20:07 3 Up: Paul Goldschmidt, Sonny Gray, and Bobby Witt Jr - 0:21:20 3 Down: Shota Imanaga, Ryan Helsley, and Keider Montero - 0:21:34 Injury Updates - 0:21:49 MLB Best Bets - 0:23:02 HR Board and HR Calls - 0:25:17 Saying Goodbye to Joey P - 0:30:04 Outro - 0:34:06 Sponsors: 💰 bet365 - Sign up now using our code LEADINGOFF and get the choice of two incredible New Customer Offers, the First Bet Safety Net or Bet $5 & Get $150 in Bonus Bets. Place your first cash bet up to $1,000, and if the bet loses, you will have your wager refunded in Bonus Bets, OR $150 in Bonus Bets will be added to your Bonus Bets balance once your original bet of at least $5 is settled. Sign up today at www.bet365.com/olp/open-account?…iate=365_03101631 ⚾ FantasyPros MyPlaybook™ - Win your Fantasy Baseball Leagues, and take home bragging rights this year. Over 1 million teams have been synced for custom advice, rankings, and analysis. Get an edge on your opponents today, www.fantasypros.com/mlb/myplaybook ✅ BettingPros® - BettingPros offers consensus sports betting advice from 150+ experts to make it easy for you to start making winning bets. We promote the best experts based on one simple question, “How good is your advice?!” At BettingPros, we help you find the best lines for the NFL, MLB, and NBA by showcasing how the individual sportsbooks compare with their Point Spreads, Moneylines, and Over/Unders vs. the Consensus of all top sportsbooks. Sign up today at www.bettingpros.com and start betting smarter... not harder

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0:00.0	Welcome in everybody to Fantasy ProS MLB. This is leading off live brought to you
0:09.2	by Bet 365, Bed 5 bucks, you get 150 in bonus, when you use the promo code to leading off.
0:14.6	It is me, Joey P, that of course is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks.
0:19.5	It's a fun Friday, it's the second of August, a lot to get to today in the world of baseball and Welsh yes
0:26.4	This is the final Joey P leading off, but it's not the final leading off. I want everybody to take a deep breath
0:32.0	We are a team here. No one man is above the team and it's certainly not me. So I hope all the peanuts and the cracker jacks, everybody hangs out, sticks around for the baseball coverage.
0:42.8	I know Welsh has got some great ideas he's going to be doing in August and September,
0:46.2	especially for all of you folks who are playing Dynasty and starting to look ahead to next year.
0:49.6	So we're going to have you covered for the stretch run of your playoffs.
0:52.1	And Welsh, speaking of stretch runs we are looking at the
0:56.1	Orioles finally bringing up prospects I was hoping today we get junior cam inero that was my one
1:02.0	home was like okay the last day that I'm here, we finally get him,
1:04.6	yay, I was wrong, right? You know, like finally got him. But Jackson Holiday, not the only guy who looks like he is back with the Orioles and by the way hit a home run yesterday but
1:14.5	Kobe Mayo apparently is on his way as well the 22 year old prospect of 961
1:20.9	OPS 20 homers in AAA, how excited should we be?
1:25.2	We should be pretty excited.
1:26.3	I mean, the reason this happened unfortunately is not exciting because Jordan Westbrook fractured
1:31.8	his hand, I think it was.
1:33.7	So at least if anything, it just pressed.
1:36.2	It is really weird, like the prospect side.
1:38.2	Someone asked yesterday, like, are we gonna have more prospecting segments?
1:41.2	I am gonna do some in August after this week. So I wanted to see what the weird is.
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