Leading Off September 17th, 2025 (Ep. 1134)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 44 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
Top Hitter Adds - 0:01:31
Signed Billy Wagner Baseball Giveaway - 0:09:53
Chat Q&A - 0:10:17
Pitching Streamers - 0:14:35
Hard Rock Bet - 0:23:09
3 Up, 3 Down - 0:26:08
Dominic Canzone, Brandon Lowe, and Freddy Peralta - 0:26:10
Paul Skenes, James Wood, and Michael King - 0:30:31
Injury Updates - 0:32:20
MLB Best Bets - 0:35:24
HR Board and HR Calls - 0:37:32
Outro - 0:39:16
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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. |
| 0:43.8 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome into Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:48.4 | This is leading off live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, rejoined by KC. Bubba after a brief hiatus on Monday. We are going to be bringing you through some fantasy baseball news and notes. But this one is going to be a little bit different. I want to focus in on some pickups over the last week or so. We're going to talk about some pitching streamers for today and tomorrow. And we're going to answer your question. So fill up the chat. If you got anything on streaming, pickups, drops, even 2026 draft questions. We'll be happy to answer them for you. Bubba, great to be back with you, my friend. How you doing today? Always doing well. Good chat. And went to you as usual. Only a few more times, my friend, for the 2025 season. So we'll finish it hard and give everybody what they need to win their fantasy baseball titles. Talk a little fun and uh yeah good to be here good to be here as always and now i'm thinking |
| 1:32.1 | about it we got today we got friday and then we got next wednesday and i think that'll be curtains |
| 1:37.5 | for us we got three more shows and we get kicked to the side for friday i think so yeah we're |
| 1:43.1 | pretty much dunzo yeah i'm not sure if i'll be invited for the Joey P. and Welles show. I still haven't had those conversations yet. But we'll see. Either way, we got five more shows starting today, Bubba and myself, or at least three of them. And I wanted to mix things up a little bit and just talk about a couple of pickup, some pitching streamers the next couple days. Somebody commented on the video on the previous one. Like, we don't need to talk about headlines this time of year. And at first I was like, but you're kind of right, honestly, you know, going through like how good of a season, Julio Rodriguez had or whatever, is not really helping you right now. So let's talk about some pickups. So we're going to go through some of the most added players today and just talk about |
| 2:19.3 | their viability. |
| 2:20.1 | If you think they're worthy of a pickup, these are just looking at Yahoo and the players that are getting added a lot today. And the number one ad for position players was Mickey Moniac Bubba. He's been really solid. We talked about him the other day with Ryan. He had a double combo meal, two homers and two steals. |
| 2:34.4 | Do you like his viability here over the final week and a half of the season? |
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