Leading Off September 12th, 2025 (Ep. 1131)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) and KC Bubba (@bdentrek) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on YouTube!

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Intro - 0:00:00

Kevin Gausman - 0:01:15

Chandler Simpson - 0:03:45

Andrew Abbott - 0:06:35

Mookie Betts - 0:08:51

Jhoan Duran - 0:10:37

Jesus Luzardo - 0:12:55

Jackson Holliday - 0:15:32

Hard Rock Bet - 0:18:02

Chat Q&A - 0:19:20

3 Up, 3 Down - 0:24:36

Otto Kemp, Bryce Miller, and Stephen Kolek - 0:24:38

Sawyer Gipson-Long, Jose Soriano, and Travis D’Arnaud - 0:26:23

Injury Updates - 0:28:38

MLB Best Bets - 0:37:42

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:40:34

Outro - 0:45:46

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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.
0:43.9	What's going on, everybody?
0:47.3	Thank you so much for wrapping up your week with us right here on a Friday leading off on the Fantasy Pro's MLB YouTube channel.
0:50.7	That's right.
0:51.1	We are back on YouTube.
0:52.3	We've been on Twitch most of the season.
0:54.0	But for the stretch run, we are going to be on YouTube. So make sure you get a subscribing Fantasy Pros MLB on YouTube. I'm joined by my good friend and co-host here, Casey Bubba. Great be back with you, my friend. It's a nice Friday. We got a full slate of baseball, and I was thinking yesterday as I was putting the sheet together, only so many days left in the year where we have 30 baseball teams playing. So going to relish it what we can.
1:16.1	Yes. No, it's it's oh so close. Oh so close to coming down to the wire. I did a week 26 fad preview last night. We have two fad periods to go, Joe. It's nuts that we do all the off-season, pre-season stuff.
1:28.4	And, oh, man, it's such a long grinding season. And it's already the end, which is crazy. I know every year, it seems like we're like, oh, wow, it's already opening day. It's already the All-Star break. And now it is already the stretch run of the season. I think every team is at about We've got 145, 146 games.
1:44.8	So we are right down to the stretch run here.
1:46.6	Make sure you guys are throwing your questions and comments into the chat. Very much appreciate that as we head back over here to YouTube. We will answer your questions a little bit later on in the show once we get through with some of the headlines. And we're in the Blue Jays hat. You guys know my affiliations. Let's talk some Kevin Gosman. He was the standout performer from yesterday. A third complete game of his career. He came one pitch short of a Maddox. It was exactly 100 pitches against the Astros. The complete game, no runs, nine strikeouts, two hits and one walk. Kevin Gosman has been phenomenal as of late. He started off the year and it was like, okay, not too bad,
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