Leading Off: September 15th, 2025 with Ryan Bloomfield (Ep. 1133)

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) and special guest Ryan Bloomfield (@RyanBHQ) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on YouTube!

Join Joe Orrico, special guests, and the Peanuts & Cracker Jacks at 12 p.m. ET at youtube.com/c/fantasyprosmlb every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for industry-leading fantasy baseball advice and to have your questions answered on the stream!

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Intro - 0:00:00
George Kirby (SP - SEA) - 0:01:05
Mickey Moniak (OF, DH - COL) - 0:04:35
Nolan McLean (SP, DH - NYM) - 0:06:36
Listener Questions #1 - 0:10:22
Jackson Merrill (OF - SD) - 0:10:59
Cal Raleigh (C, DH - SEA) vs. Aaron Judge (OF, DH - NYY) - 0:13:48
Fernando Tatis Jr. (OF - SD) - 0:16:26
Hard Rock Bet - 0:19:24
Listener Questions #2 - 0:20:36
Outro - 0:36:04

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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.
0:44.0	What's going on, everybody?
0:45.7	Welcome into Fantasy Pros.
0:48.6	This is leading off live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:53.6	I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, joined again by my special guesting co-host, Ryan Bloomfield,
0:54.9	from Baseball HQ.
0:58.0	We are going to be bringing you through the headlines, talking some three up and three down and going through all your questions here as we enter into the true stretch run of the
1:02.8	fantasy baseball season.
1:03.9	The last two weeks of Roto, probably your finals and head-to-head.
1:07.9	So, Ryan, great to have you back, my friend.
1:49.6	Really looking forward to talking baseball once again this year, probably our last time talking baseball this year before we get to see each other in person in a couple months. Yeah, a brief hiatus before we hang out in Arizona together. Thanks for having me back, my man. Of course, man, of course. It was so nice last time. We thought we would do it again. You are filling in here for Casey Bubba, who will be back on Wednesday and on Friday. We got only six shows left in the year. We are really getting down to the end here. But, of course, fill up with your questions. I see Brandon in the chat here. If anybody else has anything, we'll get to a little bit later on. We're going to run through some of the headlines here first and i wanted to start with george kirby who had an really phenomenal game yesterday really 14 strikeouts uh with six innings i believe allowed two earn runs and a funny stat here is that he's
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