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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Leading Off September 9th, 2024 (Ep. 899)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) and KC Bubba (@bdentrek) are here for Monday’s Leading Off. They discuss Justin Verlander’s tough season and if this is the end of the line, Julio Rodriguez picking up steam down the stretch, their interest level in Jack Flaherty heading into 2025, and much more. Listen in for the latest news updates, injury reports, best bets of the day, and more!

Intro - 0:00:00

Justin Verlander - 0:01:24

Julio Rodriguez - 0:04:22

Jack Flaherty - 0:06:31

Michael Wacha - 0:09:02

Edward Cabrera - 0:11:36

Spencer Horwitz - 0:13:26

Cedric Mullins - 0:15:20

Trey Sweeney - 0:16:48

Connor Norby - 0:17:45

3 Up: Pavin Smith, Eugenio Suarez, and Jared Jones - 0:19:47

3 Down: Caden Dana, Miles Mikolas, and Noelvi Marte - 0:21:25

Injury Updates - 0:23:15

Best Bets of the Day - 0:30:13

HR Board and HR Calls - 0:33:18

Outro - 0:34:48

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0:00.0

What's going on everybody? Welcome into leading off the Fantasy Pro's Baseball Podcast. We are presented by Bet 365. Bet 5 bucks get 150 and bonus bets when you use that promo code leading off with our friends over at Bet 365.

0:19.0

There's no Welsh, there's no Joe Pizapia, but Casey Baba and myself Joe Orico are back here on this

0:25.3

Monday leading off we're supposed to have Welsh on but that's what happens this time of year

0:29.4

when football gets crazy. Welsh is famous now he's got to do the football shows, but that's why

0:34.0

Bubba and myself are here to take you through everything that's going on, talk about the

0:37.3

latest news, talk some injury updates, bats, home run calls, all that great stuff.

0:41.6

Bubba, how are you doing on this fine Monday?

0:44.0

I'm doing great.

0:45.0

It's always pleasure as usual talking baseball with you and

0:48.0

keep going with three weeks left in the baseball seasons,

0:51.0

so I don't know who's counting.

0:52.0

But as we're rolling here that other game

0:54.5

takes place and takes everybody's attention away we still get cracking here for a

0:58.2

daily baseball for us yeah I think we're down to the final I guess there's three weeks left three shows a week we're down to the final nine leading off of the season so make sure you guys are subscribe to the show whether it is on the podcast side or the YouTube side would really appreciate any help you guys can give us here as football starts to take over but we are still going to be having baseball content come at you throughout the off season. So make sure you guys are signed up for everything, podcast, YouTube, and all that great stuff.

1:24.3

We are going to start with the headlines and we're going to keep it the way we usually do here,

1:27.8

but we're going to start off with some rather tough news and it's Justin Verlander just getting destroyed again. Eight earned runs over three innings against the diamondbacks.

1:37.8

Couple of home runs, he allowed eight hits, did not record a strikeout.

1:41.6

What we've seen from him in 14 games this season has been awful.

1:45.5

A 530 ERA, a 138 whip, the worst strikeout and walk rates that he's had in 10 years.

1:51.6

Is Verlander finished, Bubba? Is there any hope that he can kind of come

1:55.8

back and give us any old Verlander type of performances or is it just kind of, he's going to go out

2:02.1

the back door and this is kind of how his career is going to end.

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