Leading Off August 16th, 2024 (Ep. 886)

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Will MLB really mandate six innings per start? Paul Skenes is facing off against Logan Gilbert, Justin Verlander is closing in on a return, Bryce Miller continues to be overlooked in Seattle, and will Mike Trout be taken ahead of Christian Yelich in 2025 draft? Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) and Joe Orrico (@JoeOrrico99) bring you the news, injury updates, best bets of the day, and much more! Intro - 0:00:00 MLB 6 Inning Proposal - 0:02:27 Paul Skenes - 0:05:45 Bryce Miller - 0:08:43 Weston Wilson - 0:11:41 Justin Verlander - 0:12:49 Gunnar Henderson - 0:14:42 Wilyer Abreu - 0:14:47 Jackson Chourio - 0:15:02 Rookie Lookie - 0:17:48 3 Up: Mark Vientos, Keibert Ruiz, and Logan Webb - 0:25:17 3 Down: Mitchell Parker, Jose Quintana, and Mitch Spence - 0:26:47 Injury Updates - 0:27:07 MLB Best Bets - 0:33:17 HR Board and HR Calls - 0:39:03 Outro - 0:41:49 Sponsors: 💰 bet365 - Sign up now using our code LEADINGOFF and get the choice of two incredible New Customer Offers, the First Bet Safety Net or Bet $5 & Get $150 in Bonus Bets. Place your first cash bet up to $1,000, and if the bet loses, you will have your wager refunded in Bonus Bets, OR $150 in Bonus Bets will be added to your Bonus Bets balance once your original bet of at least $5 is settled. Sign up today at www.bet365.com/olp/open-account?…iate=365_03101631 ⚾ FantasyPros MyPlaybook™ - Win your Fantasy Baseball Leagues, and take home bragging rights this year. Over 1 million teams have been synced for custom advice, rankings, and analysis. Get an edge on your opponents today, www.fantasypros.com/mlb/myplaybook ✅ BettingPros® - BettingPros offers consensus sports betting advice from 150+ experts to make it easy for you to start making winning bets. We promote the best experts based on one simple question, “How good is your advice?!” At BettingPros, we help you find the best lines for the NFL, MLB, and NBA by showcasing how the individual sportsbooks compare with their Point Spreads, Moneylines, and Over/Unders vs. the Consensus of all top sportsbooks. Sign up today at www.bettingpros.com and start betting smarter... not harder

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0:13.9	What's up friend? And welcome into leading off right here on Fantasy Pro's I'm Chris Welsh. That is Joe Orico. Happy Paul Skeen's Day to you all. Yes, it is a Skeen's Day.
0:15.2	We're actually gonna talk about that in a little bit.
0:17.2	We got a potential rule change
0:19.2	that's gonna be coming forward, maybe in the near future.
0:22.2	I don't know, and what does that actually have to do maybe
0:25.0	affecting guys like Paul Skeen's home run calls, bets, and quite a little rookie looky. We haven't had that in a little bit but we have a whole bunch of prospect call-ups so we'll talk about some of those guys leading office brought to you by bet three six five where you can use the promo code leading off, bet $5, get 150 in bonus bets when you sign up today.
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1:01.9	there Joe what's up, buddy?
1:03.0	I'm doing well, my friend, I'm doing well.
1:05.0	I'm just taking a look at the chat here with all the Paul Skeen's talking.
1:08.0	It's the Apple TV game?
1:10.0	Come on, Skeen's and Gilbert?
1:12.0	Like that, we should, everybody should be watching that that's tough to put that on Apple TV I know last week there was
1:17.4	Terry scuba and Cole Reagan's also Apple TV give the people what they want let everybody everybody see it. You know what? I'll tell you this.
1:25.2	Get that boardroom off of trying to go six innings and force pitchers to go six innings and kill blackouts and the most important thing of all if you pay
1:38.6	for MLB subscription to watch games you should be able to watch every damn game on that service.
1:47.7	No blackouts and it doesn't matter if it's over on another streaming service.
1:51.4	It is the biggest racket on the planet and this is what's so
1:55.3	crazy we are still so focused on blackhouse which is stupid it's idiotic but it kind of mutes the whole issue that's going on of, oh, you can now only watch this on this streaming service.
2:09.6	They did this with Facebook a year or two ago.
2:12.6	You can only watch some games on Facebook,
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