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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Leading Off May 30th, 2025 (Ep. 1030)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 45 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

AJ Smith-Shawver - 0:02:47

Chris Sale - 0:07:52

Junior Caminero - 0:11:30

Mackenzie Gore - 0:11:48

The Blue Jays - 0:14:43

Ozzie Albies - 0:15:31

Mike Trout - 0:15:43

Transactions - 0:17:40

Rookie Lookie - 0:23:09

Microsoft Challenger Segment - 0:26:49

Kenta Maeda - 0:30:46

3 Up, 3 Down - 0:30:58

Luis Garcia Jr., Austin Riley, and Chandler Simpson - 0:31:00

Ryan Gusto, Jordan Romano, and Jacob Lopez - 0:31:16

Injury Updates - 0:33:39

MLB Best Bets - 0:37:45

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:40:38

Outro - 0:44:15

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:09.5

What's up, everybody?

0:10.6

It's me Joey P.

0:11.4

Joe Pizapia, and this is Fantasy Pros MLB leading off.

0:16.2

That's, of course, the Welsh.

0:17.1

And it's all of you, the peanuts and the crackerjacks hanging out here.

0:20.6

Just talking baseball on a fun Friday.

0:22.8

A lot to get to.

0:23.9

We've got, uh, some minor league notes, a ton of them.

0:27.8

A big injury to talk about.

0:29.4

But first, you know, Welsh, we have an ongoing theme here on the program.

0:34.0

You know, some say you look like John Lackey.

0:36.6

I say you look like Rico Bronia when he played with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

0:41.4

A lot of people think that they see you in places.

0:46.0

And one of our fans of the show, I wanted to point this out, hit us up on the Twitter machine.

0:51.8

And he said that he thought you looked like a young Mac Miller there, or maybe an older

0:56.3

Mac Miller.

0:57.0

He looks like a young Welsh.

0:58.2

A fatter older.

1:00.6

That looks like a younger Welsh.

1:02.0

I got to tell you, though.

1:03.1

I never thought of that one.

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