Leading Off May 15th, 2025 (Ep. 1012)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!
Join Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and the Peanuts &Cracker Jacks at 12 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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Intro - 0:00:00
Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani - 0:01:50
Devin Williams and Luke Weaver - 0:02:20
Tarik Skubal - 0:04:39
Alex Bregman - 0:04:50
Patrick Corbin - 0:08:43
Ryan Weathers - 0:11:30
Spencer Strider - 0:12:37
Rookie Lookie - 0:16:06
Kyzatrex - 0:20:36
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:30:18
Cedric Mullins, Rhys Hoskins, and Kyle Stowers - 0:30:22
Aaron Nola, Sonny Gray, and Simeon Woods Richardson - 0:33:25
Injury Updates - 0:33:48
MLB Best Bets - 0:37:05
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:40:15
Outro - 0:45:15
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:13.5 | This is leading off. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Chris Welsh. |
| 0:16.7 | That is Joe O'Riko. |
| 0:18.3 | There is no Pizapia today. |
| 0:37.7 | Pizapia might be like under right now. We don't even know. We don't know what's going on. Well, we kind of know what's going on as a scopy scope, but we don't know the exacts of it. Joe will be back tomorrow, but we have our replacement, Joe, and he's not really your replacement. He's just a fantastic Joe. Mr. O'Riko, |
| 0:42.1 | what's up, buddy? Yeah, I got the call for the manager last night, needed me to step up for a little bit of a bullpen game today. So happy to do it. Happy to step in for Joe. Hope he's doing |
| 0:46.3 | all right because I'm sure he's not having fun right now. No, probably not fun. Drinking whatever fun drinking whatever you have to drink prior to a thing that men in their mid 40s must do. |
| 0:55.6 | That would have been a really great. There's a really great sponsorship opportunity that |
| 0:58.6 | was missed in this entire thing, whether, whatever it could have been. You know, maybe we could |
| 1:03.0 | follow along with Joe, but, you know, next time sales, they can work on that. We got a lot in the |
| 1:07.8 | show today. It's kind of a small short slate as I guess |
| 1:11.0 | Thursdays have been in general. There's some early games by the time we get to the end of the show. |
| 1:15.9 | A couple of the games are going to start. So we've got some best bets for you. We've got stuff |
| 1:19.7 | across the board. So let's start our breakdown and shout out to all of our penis and cracker |
| 1:24.2 | jacks that are hanging out. You guys are welcome to drop questions where we can yap with you guys and answer your questions and a reminder, anybody watching |
| 1:31.5 | after the fact on YouTube or listening on the podcast. You can always join us on Twitch Live |
| 1:36.6 | Monday through Friday, 12 p.m. Eastern, Twitch.tv slash fantasy pros. That's right. Me and Joey, |
| 1:43.9 | come and catch live, whether it's this |
| 1:45.9 | Joey or the other Joey, 12 p.m. Eastern. We got a bunch of other great offerings. Catch it live, |
| 1:51.7 | interact, get your questions answered, and do it today. Otherwise, you're good on all the other platforms. |
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