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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Leading Off: September 5th, 2025 (Ep. 1127)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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

Join Joe Orrico, KC Bubba 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!

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Intro - 0:00:00
Billy Wagner Autographed Jersey Giveaway Announcement - 0:01:13
Billy Wagner Autographed Baseball Giveaway - 0:01:39
Listener Questions #1 - 0:02:13
Paul Skenes (SP - PIT) - 0:02:48
Ranger Suarez (SP - PHI) - 0:04:54
Freddy Peralta (SP - MIL) - 0:06:45
Programming Notes - 0:08:45
Yordan Alvarez (OF, DH - HOU) - 0:09:31
Mookie Betts (2B, SS, OF - LAD) - 0:11:53
Vinnie Pasquantino (1B, DH - KC) - 0:14:03
Pete Crow-Armstrong (OF - CHC) - 0:16:09
Listener Questions #2 - 0:18:18
Transactions - 0:24:45
Rookie Lookie - 0:26:22
3 Up: Andrew Vaughn (1B, DH - MIL), Chris Morel (2B, 3B, OF, DH - TB) & Kyle Teel (C, DH - CWS) - 0:27:18
3 Down: Blake Snell (Sp - LAD), Cristian Javier (2B, 3B, SS, OF - DET) & Daniel Schneeman (2B, 3B, SS, OF - CLE) - 0:28:39
Injury Updates - 0:30:16
Bubba’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:38:37
Orrico’s Best Bets of the Day - 0:39:54
Board Updates & Home Run Calls - 0:41:10
Manny Machado (3B, DH - SD) | +350 - 0:41:30
Pete Alonso (1B - NYM) | +240 - 0:42:11
Listener Questions #2 - 0:42:26
Outro - 0:45:19

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Transcript

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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?

0:45.6

Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

0:48.5

This is leading off live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:52.5

I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, and today I'm joined by my good friend, Casey Bubba, as usual here in September,

0:52.7

to talk to you through all the fantasy baseball headlines, news and notes, injuries, and all the rest of the goodies. Bubba, great to be back with you, my friend. How you doing today? Doing well, Friday, heading into another weekend. We've got three weeks of baseball left. There's some other sport being played on another feed we have, so all that great stuff, but baseball's still going strong in my world.

0:53.9

I'm guessing yours as well.

1:44.3

Yeah. on another feed we have. So all that great stuff, but baseball's still going strong in my world. I'm guessing yours as well. Yeah, this is a crazy time of year right now, man. As soon as the Thursday night football game started yesterday, and my brain was like, okay, now it's crunch time. Now we only have a couple of weeks left. We do have some football questions in the chat, as we did the other day. I'm not, again, like I'll say the other day, I'm not going to be the one who can answer these. I'm taking Ricky Pierceball, probably in that first one and probably Petreco for the second one, but I'm not the guy to ask. Go over to the football feed, go over to fantasy pros on Discord, get your questions answered over there on the football side. We're talking baseball talking baseball here folks we only have a handful of shows left on the baseball calendar and we are

1:48.3

going to be focusing in on MLB but i want to give something away first we've been talking about

1:52.7

the billy wagner jersey for quite a while and we are going to be giving that away today the

1:57.9

winner is robbie bertu 17 congratulations robbie be in contact with us at mailbag at fantasy pros dot com with your mailing address and a screenshot of your youtube account well logged in once we confirm we'll get you your price shipped out and congrats again to robbie bertu 17 but you're probably thinking man i wanted to wanted to win some Billy Wagner merge. What's going on here? I really wanted to win. Well, you still can because the next giveaway is a Billy Wagner signed baseball, courtesy of our friends at pristine auction.com. All you have to do to enter is subscribe to the Fantasy Pro's MLB YouTube channel right now. Drop a comment below on any video, and that's it We're announcing one lucky winner right here on the channel. So turn on those notifications so you can know when new videos are up and to claim your prize. If you haven't done so already, guys, would really appreciate anybody subscribing to the channel, whether it's on the YouTube feed, audio feed. However, you can help us out. That would be much appreciated. and we really appreciate Michael, who just resubbed with Prime. He says he almost feels out of touch having a buy this week. Someone dropped Keishel in his league, worth grabbing him and dropping Simpson. Bubba, what are your initial thoughts on that one? Honestly, I'm guessing bye week means he has a head-to-head format for the playoffs. I would lean Keishel because he's going to be more category. Simpsons primarily as steals, maybe some bad in average or Keishels could help in all five categories. So I'm just off of what I think his league format is. I would go Keishel pretty quickly. Yeah, I think I agree. Unless you're super, super desperate for speed, I think Keishel is a more well-rounded player. But we are going to dive into some of the headlines. We'll get to some of your questions later. So fill up the chat and we will do a little segment later to answer your questions. Well, let's start off with Paul Skeens. I don't even know what to do with this guy anymore. He's just so good. Our six innings yesterday with eight strikeouts against the Dodgers, two run ball, just two

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