Leading Off May 22nd, 2025 (Ep. 1021)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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

Nick Kurtz - 0:00:58

Logan O’Hoppe - 0:02:42

Jasson Dominguez - 0:03:44

Jake Burger - 0:05:38

Jacob deGrom - 0:06:14

Kevin Gausman - 0:12:55

Gavin Williams - 0:14:30

Hunter Brown - 0:14:38

Christian Yelich - 0:16:56

Michael Harris II - 0:19:53

Fun Facts - 0:23:16

Jean Segura - 0:23:55

Rookie Lookie - 0:25:11

3 Up, 3 Down - 0:27:21

Dustin May, Corbin Burnes, and Tylor Megill - 0:27:24

JP Sears, Carson Palmquist, and Logan Webb - 0:29:47

Injury Updates - 0:30:59

MLB Best Bets - 0:35:30

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:37:12

Outro - 0:39:34

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:10.3	Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB.
0:13.0	This is Leading Off Live.
0:14.3	It is me, Joey P.
0:15.2	Joe Pizapia.
0:16.2	With me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's all of you,
0:18.2	The Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks here on our Twitch,
0:20.7	live watching it's Twitch.tv slash fantasy pros that's where you can see us
0:25.2	every single Monday through Friday noon Eastern and of course you can also
0:28.4	check us out video on demand whenever you want to on Fantasy Bros MLB YouTube
0:34.7	channel subscribe today drop your comments below and you might win yourself a spectacular Jose Ramirez jersey from our good pals over pristineauction.
0:42.6	All you have to do, subscribe to the channel, drop your comments below, ring the bell to
0:46.4	like those thing.
0:47.0	That's it.
0:47.5	That's all you got to do.
0:48.5	Welsh, good to see you, my friend.
0:50.9	I can't wait to give this Jose Ramirez jersey away to one of our wonderful listeners.
0:55.2	It was a good night for home runs. Two guys went yard twice yesterday and both made me
1:01.5	smile very, very much, but for different reasons. Okay. Let's hear it. You want to guess?
1:06.9	Okay. Guess the players? It's Nick Kurtz. It's well, Nickz, first of all, because not only did it go yard twice, there was
1:14.3	some moonshot ones.
1:15.5	Like, he is hitting the ball hard.
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