Leading Off: September 8th, 2025 with Ryan Bloomfield (Ep. 1129)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) and special guest Ryan Bloomfield (@RyanBHQ) recorded this episode of "Leading Off" LIVE on Twitch!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Hunter Greene (SP - CIN) - 0:01:30
Shohei Ohtani (SP, DH - LAD) - 0:05:09
Jacob Misiorowski (SP - MIL) - 0:06:45
Bubba Chandler (SP - PIT) - 0:08:55
Oneil Cruz (SS, OF - PIT) - 0:10:56
Aroldis Chapman (RP - BOS) - 0:13:27
Jo Adell (OF - LAA) - 0:16:17
Billy Wagner Autographed Baseball Giveaway - 0:19:40
Listener Questions #1 - 0:20:13
3 Up: Andrew Vaughn (1B, DH - MIL), Otto Lopez (2B, SS - MIA) & Eugenio Suarez (3B - SEA) - 0:26:26
3 Down: Joey Wentz (SP, RP - ATL), Charlie Morton (SP, RP - DET) & Kai-Wei Teng (SP, RP - SF) - 0:31:16
Injury Updates - 0:33:01
Listener Questions #2 - 0:43:55
Outro - 0:48:03
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:06.5 | I'm Drew Franklin. |
| 0:07.5 | And this is NFL cover zero. |
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| 0:15.1 | Did you see the Colts pretzel? |
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| 0:44.2 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome into Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:48.5 | This is Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm your host Joe O'Riko, joined today by a special guest making his leading off debut. You've seen him on the channel. If you were here for Fantasy Fest, he's been a guest over the years on numerous shows. But Mr. Ryan Bloomfield sitting in the co-host chair today, he's actually the first person I ever did a podcast with once upon a time, four or five years ago. He's been a good friend ever since, Ryan. Thank you so much for stepping in for Bubba today, man. Good to see you. |
| 1:11.5 | Happy to do so, my man. Great to talk to you. And, you know, someone's got to pick up Bubba Slack around here. So usually, usually I have to do it anyway, but on our Bubba in the Bloom show, but I'll do it. I'll do it for this one as well. Different venue, but same deal, Ryan picking up Bubba Slack. |
| 1:27.0 | Really good to have you. |
| 1:28.0 | If you haven't followed Ryan over on Twitter, it's at Ryan BHQ. |
| 1:31.2 | He does fan. different venue but same deal ryan picking up bubba slack uh really good to have you if you haven't |
| 1:28.3 | followed ryan over on twitter it's at ryan b hq he does fantastic work over at baseball hq uh so make |
| 1:34.6 | sure you guys are checking him out following his work and listening to the bub in the bloom podcast |
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