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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Leading Off: Konnor Griffin’s Extension & Debut + Chat Q&A (Ep. 1199)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Join Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and the Peanuts & Cracker Jacks at 12:30 p.m. ET at ⁠⁠⁠⁠twitch.tv/fantasypros⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ every weekday for industry-leading fantasy baseball advice and to have your questions answered on the stream!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.6

Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pro's MLB.

0:12.2

This is leading off live.

0:13.8

It is me, Joey P.

0:14.6

Joe Pizapia with me as the Welsh, and happy Connor Griffin Day to everybody who celebrates.

0:19.8

We're going to talk about the extension, the debut, the projections, all of it when it comes to Connor Griffin.

0:25.6

We're going to look ahead to today's best bets of the day.

0:28.6

Home run calls.

0:29.5

We've got it all here on the show.

0:31.3

Short slate of games last night, but it doesn't matter because today, Welsh, everything is going to be dominated by Connor Griffin Conversation. You found a great tweet from major league baseball.com the last time, or should I say

0:44.1

when Connor Griffin was born, April 24th, 2006. The lineup for the Pittsburgh Pirates was as

0:50.0

follows. Nate McClough, boy, I had some shares of him back in the day. Jack Wilson, who's kid,

0:59.7

placed for the athletics now, Jason Bay, Craig Wilson, Jeremy Burnitz, Joe Randup, Freddie Sanchez, Ombardo Cota, and Oliver Perez, who frustrated the hell out of me in fantasy

1:05.2

for many, many years. Welsh, that's a little bit of a where are they now line up right there.

1:10.4

The Jason Bay and Freddie Sanchez hit hard because like in my brain, there's still kind of the like up and coming exciting guys and they've been gone for so long. You know what I mean? Like I love. I thought Jason Bay was going to be legit. And Freddie Sanchez was just one of those just like lovable guys, everybody.

1:27.9

You just wanted him on your team. So you see that lineup and you're like, wait a minute. How old? He was born? It doesn't, it doesn't even make sense to me. But, you know, he's a 19 year old kid making a major league debut. That's what happens. You get, you get sad with the players that were there when he was born.

1:44.3

The players that, you know, were in the mayor.

1:46.5

How many players is, was Justin Verlander in the majors when Connor Griffin was born? There's a, you know, I think they did a Kevin McGonigal one. I think Verlander might have been pitching while. Oh, Verlander was definitely pitching in 06, wasn't he? Yeah, I think they had to be. He's 4,000 years old.

2:00.9

All right. Ferlander was definitely pitching in 06, wasn't he? Yeah.

2:01.4

I think it had to be. He's 4,000 years old. All right. We're going to get to all that. By the way, Van Rod, I hope you're watching today because I am wearing my, I'm a Paul Heyman guy shirt on the show today. So rocking that as requested, because I played the heel yesterday. But let's get after it. Let's talk about Connor Griffin and let's talk about the debut for the 19 year old prodigy.

2:20.8

Uh, he slashed 333, 415, 527 with 21 homer, 65 steals. I don't think people will talk about the stolen base potential enough in 122 games last season. That was his professional debut. He's the first teenage position player in

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