The 10 Biggest Fantasy Baseball Questions for 2025 (Ep. 917)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Join Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin) as they break down their 10 biggest fantasy baseball questions ahead of the 2025 season!
Is Shohei Ohtani the clear #1 overall pick? Do we still need to chase stolen bases early in drafts? Should Paul Skenes be considered the SP1 entering the season? What mistakes from previous years can we not afford to make again in 2025? Tune in to get the answers to these questions and many more!
Intro - 0:00:00
Who is the true #1 pick this season? - 0:02:25
Should we be afraid of Ronald Acuna Jr? - 0:08:01
Is Paul Skenes the SP1? - 0:12:40
Is pocket aces/high SP drafting dead? - 0:16:54
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Are Corbin Carroll and Julio Rodriguez busts? - 0:25:01
Is chasing stolen bases a thing of the past? - 0:30:17
Should you trust drafting rookies? - 0:35:06
Should you spend a high pick on a closer? - 0:41:01
Is batting average the biggest statistical advantage to draft - 0:43:48
What can you not afford to do again this season? - 0:47:02
Outro - 0:51:25
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, friends, and welcome in to Fantasy Pros. |
| 0:07.6 | This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | I am Chris Welsh, and today we are talking about the biggest questions in fantasy for 2025. |
| 0:17.0 | In fact, the 10 biggest questions of 2025. |
| 0:19.8 | And joining me, of course, is the wonkiest of piguins. |
| 0:23.0 | It is Kelly Kirby. |
| 0:24.4 | Kelly, what's up? |
| 0:25.3 | Not a whole lot. |
| 0:26.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:26.9 | We were just talking. |
| 0:27.7 | We hadn't talked in a really long time. |
| 0:29.1 | So it's nice to be here with you and talking baseball finally. |
| 0:33.4 | That's sad. |
| 0:33.9 | You're just so busy. Kelly's just out there just like doing all the stuff in the back end, doing all these crazy things. |
| 0:39.1 | My time with Kelly is usually during baseball season in the leading off chat is where I get to spend the most of my time. |
| 0:46.4 | But Kelly not only does hockey, kind of does a little bit of everything, clearly does baseball and also runs a lot of our contests here. So you're going |
| 0:55.5 | to probably have a lot of questions here for the 2025 season, right? Yes, I do. Absolutely, |
| 1:01.0 | for sure. Because 2025 just looks like it's going to be a little bit different on paper than |
| 1:05.8 | 2024 and certainly 2023. So as I'm writing player notes, I'm just like, I don't really know what to do with this guy. |
| 1:12.5 | So I'm really excited for you to ask me on air what I'm going to do with that guy. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.4 | And a lot of this is going to derive as well from, you know, things that we experienced last year, |
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