Leading Off March 31st, 2025 (Ep. 961)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17) and Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) recorded this show LIVE on Twitch! Follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/fantasypros and never miss a stream!
Today, the fellas recap the biggest stories from opening weekend, including the Yankees “torpedo” bats, another bad season debut for Bailey Ober, the struggles of Rafael Devers, and Jacob deGrom’s promising outing. Then, we break down the best prospect stashes, the hottest pickups on the waiver wire, the best bets of the day, and much more!
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Intro - 0:00:00
The Yankees - 0:01:53
Jose Ramirez - 0:06:25
Jacob DeGrom - 0:06:47
Spencer Schwellenbach - 0:11:04
The Waiver Wire - 0:11:15
Kristian Campbell - 0:11:48
Dylan Crews - 0:13:03
Prospecting with The Welsh - 0:14:03
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:23:45
Jesus Luzardo, Jordan Westburg, and Josh Naylor - 0:23:48
Bailey Ober, Michael Harris II, and Rafael Devers - 0:24:03
Masyn Winn - 0:25:56
My Playbook - 0:31:57
Injury Updates - 0:32:25
MLB Best Bets - 0:34:30
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:39:04
Outro - 0:41:03
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| 0:36.1 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading off live. It's me Joey P. Joe P. Zapier. And you wanted the intro. You got the intro today. We got to bring it back and fix it around, though. But we didn't want to not play it just for fun because, well, we like to have fun around these places. We're here on our |
| 0:54.9 | Twitch, Twitch.tv, slash Fantasy Bros. Live every single day, noon Eastern time. Join us there. |
| 1:00.8 | I saw our subs just blew up over the weekend, which I love to see. And only did that blow up, |
| 1:06.1 | but also the Yankee bats blew up. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about |
| 1:10.3 | injuries. We're going to talk about bets. We're going to talk about injuries. |
| 1:11.3 | We're going to talk about bets. |
| 1:12.3 | And we're also going to talk about the reason, again, that we're moving over to Twitch |
| 1:16.0 | is because what we're able to do on the YouTube, an all-time record of a leading off episode, |
| 1:21.8 | not one, but two, but three times as many views on that episode. |
| 1:28.2 | Very cool. |
| 1:29.0 | I just want to thank everybody out there for subscribing on the YouTube channel. |
| 1:31.9 | Remember, the show will be on YouTube every single day, so don't worry about that. |
| 1:36.2 | Welsh, that was really cool to see that everybody came over to Twitch to watch us live today |
| 1:41.4 | to support us and also on the YouTube channel. |
| 1:43.9 | Do you feel the love? |
| 1:44.6 | Because I feel it. |
| 1:45.9 | I do feel the love. |
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