Leading Off May 19th, 2025 (Ep. 1017)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Joe Pisapia (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JoePisapia17⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and Chris Welsh (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@IsItTheWelsh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) 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!

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads):

Intro - 0:00:00

Jose Alvarado - 0:01:16

Cody Bellinger - 0:04:52

Merrill Kelly - 0:05:01

Jack Leiter - 0:06:49

Royce Lewis - 0:08:25

Alexander Camaro - 0:08:34

Paul Skenes - 0:11:23

Jared Jones - 0:11:44

Transactions - 0:13:11

Rookie Lookie - 0:18:50

Prospecting with The Welsh - 0:20:30

3 Up, 3 Down - 0:31:00

Max Fried, Jeffrey Springs, and CJ Abrams - 0:31:03

Shane Baz, Brayan Bello, and Zach Eflin - 0:31:26

Kyzatrex - 0:33:55

Injury Updates - 0:36:34

MLB Best Bets - 0:38:23

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:41:44

Outro - 0:43:09

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:10.6	Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Bros. MLB.
0:13.1	This is leading off live.
0:14.5	It is me, Joey P.
0:15.4	Joe P. Zapia, with me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's all of you, the peanuts and the
0:19.6	Cracker Jacks, on a Monday morning.
0:21.4	You know, I was noticing in that video, in the intro video for the first time, when we have
0:26.2	beards and when we don't, sometimes we have them at the same time, sometimes we have them at
0:30.7	separate times. But I don't ever see us both clean shaven at the same time, Welsh.
0:34.9	I thought that was a little interesting on the timeline of leading off. Oh, that's interesting. I mean, that's more you because like, I can only go so
0:42.5	long until I'm forced to shave. So, uh, it's, it's not often that you are completely clean
0:48.8	shaven. I think that would be actually very disturbing if I'm being honest. I think it would be a little jarring for everybody. Thank you.
0:54.2	That's why I'm here. No, for both of us at the same time, not you, not just you, both of us. And the audience. And the audience, we while you're watching on the YouTube channel, drop your comments below because you might
1:13.1	win yourself a Jose Ramirez autographed jersey from our good pals at pristineauction.com.
1:18.7	That's right.
1:19.3	Drop your comments.
1:20.1	Ring the bell till it goes ding and subscribe to Fantasy Bros. MLB.
1:23.2	That's the way you win, this bad boy.
1:25.4	And let's start here with the suspension today.
1:28.7	That's right.
1:29.8	Jose Alvarado, boo, 80 game suspension here.
1:33.1	And Alvarado had been really good man was he lights out in the spring too.
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