Leading Off May 20th, 2025 (Ep. 1019)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 40 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!

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Intro - 0:00:00

Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts - 0:00:35

Kris Bubic - 0:03:33

Robbie Ray - 0:09:39

Chandler Simpson - 0:10:01

Jordan Walker - 0:10:15

Oneil Cruz - 0:13:42

Yordan Alvarez - 0:16:58

Hunter Greene - 0:17:03

Mick Abel - 0:17:07

Rookie Lookie - 0:17:13

3 Up, 3 Down - 0:23:16

Sonny Gray, William Contreras, and Julio Rodriguez - 0:23:18

Keider Montero, Dean Kremer, and Mark Vientos - 0:23:36

Kyzatrex - 0:25:36

Injury Updates - 0:27:57

MLB Best Bets - 0:33:40

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:36:28

Outro - 0:39:10

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:10.4	Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB.
0:13.1	This is leading off live.
0:14.6	It is me Joey P.
0:15.5	Joe Pizapia with me every day is the Welsh.
0:18.1	And it's all of you, the peanuts and the cracker jacks here on our Twitch,
0:21.2	Twitch.tv.tv, slash fantasy pros. Or if you're watching on demand, our YouTube channel, Fantasy
0:26.2	Bros, MLB Welsh. It's another fun day of baseball ahead of us. Yesterday was an amazing show.
0:32.4	If you missed yesterday, go back and watch it. A lot of great conversations, a lot of big discussions,
0:38.4	a lot of prospect stuff. Today, we got lots to throw at you, some injuries, of course, because it's major
0:43.1	league baseball and Welsh. Otani hit his 17th homer. Mookie Betts hit two, but it wasn't enough to
0:50.3	beat your diamond bags. You got to be feeling pretty good about yesterday's game.
0:56.4	The Dodgers getting swept by the Angels.
0:57.5	Love it.
1:03.7	And then the Diamondbacks pulling down wins, though that bullpen is a disaster.
1:08.7	But we did get good reports that Justin Martinez, who threw out here on Saturday,
1:12.7	might just be coming back up here very shortly and not even hitting any more rehab stints or maybe there's one more at
1:15.4	AAA but looks like he's going to be back sometime very early this week and
1:18.8	be back to closing games hopefully against the Dodgers.
1:22.8	I love it.
1:23.3	And that Otani bet by the way is looking pretty good on betting pros that I gave
1:26.8	you a couple weeks ago.
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