Leading Off March 18th, 2025: Tokyo Series (Ep. 949)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Joe Pisapia and Chris Welsh recorded this show LIVE on Twitch! Follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/fantasypros and never miss a stream!
Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17) and Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) are back for another season of Leading Off Live!
In this episode, the boys recap the first game of the season in Tokyo between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs. They also break down some recent news out of spring training and give some injury updates on key players
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00:00
Dodgers/Cubs - 0:03:53
Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shota Imanaga - 0:05:10
Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts - 0:09:51
Matt Shaw - 0:12:40
FantasyPros Draft Assistant - 0:17:33
Justin Verlander - 0:18:35
Kristian Campbell - 0:21:13
Cam Smith - 0:21:33
My Playbook - 0:25:09
Spencer Strider - 0:26:15
Royce Lewis - 0:29:36
Injury Updates - 0:32:37
Outro - 0:35:29
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. |
| 0:09.4 | This is leading off live. |
| 0:11.4 | It is me Joey Pee, Joe Pizapia. |
| 0:13.0 | That, of course, is the Welsh. |
| 0:14.5 | And I've been waiting a long time to say that. |
| 0:16.5 | Oh, wee, let's go. |
| 0:18.4 | We've actually got real baseball to talk about today because the Dodgers and the Cubs were |
| 0:24.4 | playing early this morning. |
| 0:26.5 | I was up at 6 a.m. as I always am, so it was pretty easy for me to watch it. |
| 0:30.8 | A little harder for the Welsh. |
| 0:32.2 | I know he's been catching up on the highlights. |
| 0:34.1 | A little tougher there in Arizona. |
| 0:36.2 | But as you can see, a little new look. |
| 0:38.6 | We got some cool new logos, incredible work from our team here, wrong side there. |
| 0:42.3 | There it is. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh yeah, and all of you hanging out joining us on Twitch. |
| 0:46.8 | Now, for those of you who are watching on YouTube, live on demand there, as we are always |
| 0:51.2 | going to be a live show to tape no matter what. |
| 0:54.5 | We're not pre-recorded in that kind of weird way. |
| 0:57.4 | We go live because that's the beauty of this show. |
| 1:00.5 | But it is a little different this year. |
| 1:02.4 | So if you're going to watch us live and interact, get your questions answered, all that fun stuff, |
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