Leading Off Season Finale (Ep. 1138)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
For one final time this season, join Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17), Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh), and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) as they recap the 2025 fantasy baseball season, give their take on the AL MVP Race, and talk about some of their biggest hits and misses of the year!
From all of us here on Leading Off, thank you so much for following along all season! We’ll be back soon to bring you offseason content, and we’ll be prepping for 2026 drafts before you know it!
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Intro - 0:00:00
The AL MVP Race - 0:03:54
Our Favorite Fantasy Players in 2025 - 0:09:40
Impressive Rookie Pitchers - 0:16:02
Final SP Streamers - 0:21:07
Biggest 2025 Disappointments - 0:23:00
Final HR Board - 0:28:11
Outro - 0:29:12
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, this is Matt Jones. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Drew Franklin. |
| 0:07.5 | And this is NFL cover zero. |
| 0:10.2 | We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. |
| 0:15.1 | Did you see the Colts pretzel? |
| 0:16.5 | That was my other big takeaway from that game. |
| 0:17.9 | What was that? |
| 0:18.9 | Oh, my. |
| 0:20.1 | We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. |
| 0:23.8 | And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. |
| 0:27.2 | Listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:47.0 | This is leading off live. |
| 0:47.8 | It is me Joey P. |
| 0:52.0 | Joe Pizpia with my boys, the Welsh and Dark Joe Rico. |
| 0:52.7 | That's right. |
| 0:53.5 | Oh, what's going on there. |
| 1:11.9 | Dark Days up in Toronto as the Blue Jays trying to hang on there to first place. And yes, it's so good to be back here talking baseball with all of you, the peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. I missed you all. And I really mean that from the bottom of my heart. We love the baseball show here. It is and always has been a labor of love. |
| 1:18.4 | And we want to share that love with the audience today and kind of look back at the 2025 season. |
| 1:24.4 | What's going on through the weekend? My Mets barely hanging on by a thread by themselves as well. |
| 1:44.7 | You know, they've got to do it, right? They've got to start off great this year, get my expectations up, then pull me back down to earth, then give me hope again, swooping the Phillies, and then crush my hopes again. And now tease me at the end of the year on my birthday. So you know what, Mets, just once. Can we just win like 98 games and just sail into the playoffs? That'd be fun. but Welsh, good to see to see you my friend the hair looks spectacular today uh i know we're going to talk about some of our favorite things this |
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