Leading Off: March 19th, 2025 | Tokyo Series - Day 2 (Ep. 950)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 39 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 second 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, give some injury updates on key players, and tackle listener questions like, what do we expect from Ronald Acuna or who pitches more between George Kirby or Jacob deGrom?
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00:00
Roki Sasaki's MLB debut - 0:02:00
Use the Draft Assistant for live expert advice in your last-minute drafts! - 0:11:10
The Dodgers' offense - 0:11:49
Jarred Jones will miss next spring start - 0:14:28
Do you spend high draft picks on pitching? - 0:18:27
If saves+holds are a scoring category in your league, are we more willing to punt on closers? - 0:19:16
Who are good Jarred Jones replacement options in deep leagues? - 0:20:40
Mason Miller in the 10th or Bailey Ober in the 15th? - 0:22:16
Leading Off is on Twitch every weekday at 12 PM ET from Opening Day onward! - 0:22:39
Download the Fantasy Baseball My Playbook app to manage your teams - 0:23:04
Who to keep? - 0:24:00
Hallmark movies - 0:25:39
Pickup Rhys Hoskins? - 0:26:14
Kodai Senga - 0:26:30
Unlocking the "positive Joe" draft - 0:27:06
Max Scherzer's hurt - 0:27:51
Gunnar Henderson took batting practice Tuesday - 0:28:32
Coby Mayo optioned to Triple-A - 0:29:12
Who pitches more: George Kirby or Jacob deGrom? - 0:30:03
Who's our sleeper No. 2 catcher? - 0:31:54
Ronald Acuna expectations - 0:32:41
Which veteran free agent SPs are still worth signing? - 0:35:03
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. |
| 0:03.7 | This is leading off live. |
| 0:05.4 | It's me Joey P. |
| 0:06.2 | Joe PZapia with me as always is The Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks, |
| 0:10.8 | hanging out here on our Twitch, twitch.tv. |
| 0:14.0 | slash fantasy pros. |
| 0:15.2 | That's the place to find us live this season. |
| 0:18.0 | And, of course, we will also be on the YouTube channel. |
| 0:21.2 | Subscribe to the YouTube channel, Fantasy Bros. MLB. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, right now we're trying to get to 25,000 by opening day. |
| 0:27.7 | If we do, guess what? |
| 0:29.4 | It's going to be Mario and Luigi right here. |
| 0:32.7 | The two of us are going to be dressing up. |
| 0:34.7 | So I'm pretty sure you guys are going to want to see that. |
| 0:37.2 | Welsh, we had game two of Dodgers Cubs. We had Rokey Sazaki's debut. We had a lot of news to get to |
| 0:44.5 | as well, including another pitcher that we both had expectations for that maybe might have to be |
| 0:50.1 | tempered just a tad. But Welsh, regardless, baseball is fun. It's good to have baseball. Let's |
| 0:56.9 | dive right into it and let's talk about the game here. Another W-4. The Dodgers. Stop me if you heard |
| 1:01.9 | this one before. 6-3 is the final. Lennon-knack gets the W. Steel, friend of the show. We love you, |
| 1:08.0 | Justin. Didn't have his best stuff today. Again, weird exhibition moments there. He falls to 0-in-1. That ERA is at 11, so there you go. That should be fun. |
| 1:16.5 | The lines, though, Justin Steele, four innings, five earned runs, five strikeouts, though. Just |
| 1:21.6 | one walk. You get to give up two home runs. That was the problem. unfortunately just like yesterday the second inning became a pain in the |
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