The Cycle: 2nd Half Bold Predictions, 1st Half Surprises, All-Star & Derby Reactions (Ep. 867)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As we hit the halfway mark of the season, Ryan and Mike reveal their biggest surprises and disappointments from the first half. Who exceeded expectations, and who fell short? The answers might surprise you.
Looking ahead to the second half, our hosts make some bold predictions for pitchers and hitters. Will Paul Skenes and Pablo Lopez dominate the mound? Are Jackson Chourio and Jarren Duran poised to become fantasy superstars? Plus, don’t miss their daring team predictions – could the Orioles finish with the best record, and might the Yankees miss the playoffs?
Lastly, it’s time for the season-long 2-Start Pitcher Competition. Maher and Worm select their top pitchers for the week and discuss their backup choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome into the cycle I am Ryan warmly joined as always by Mike Mayer and we are looking back to the first half of the season we're looking ahead to the second half of the season it is the all-star break so it wasn't really any actual |
| 0:13.4 | baseball being played this week. There was some last weekend but we |
| 0:16.4 | decided rather than doing our usual kind of layout of the show that we would |
| 0:20.7 | react to the Home Run Urban in the all All Star game and then we'd offer some |
| 0:24.3 | superlatives, biggest first half surprise, biggest first half disappointment, |
| 0:29.0 | predictions, bold predictions for the second half of the season. |
| 0:33.0 | And then we will get back to our two-start pitcher competition |
| 0:35.8 | at the end of the program. |
| 0:38.3 | Does that sound like a good plan for you, Mayor? |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, that sounds good without a ton of actual baseball to talk about. We can go into. for you're |
| 0:42.9 | mayor? Yeah, that sounds good without a ton of actual baseball to talk about. We can go into |
| 0:45.3 | the disappointment that was the Harmon Derby if you're watching from my |
| 0:50.1 | perspective and you know the underwhelming all-star game and get into all the other |
| 0:56.7 | stuff you mentioned too. We will dive into it all. Yeah and this will be a shorter episode I expect as well. Like I said, kind of just something to |
| 1:06.7 | tie us over during the break that we have here. Quick note for everyone that if you like this content, |
| 1:11.8 | the best free way to show your |
| 1:13.2 | support and encourage more content like this is to leave a positive review |
| 1:17.3 | at fantasypros.com slash MLB review. Let's dive right in we are are going to react to, let's talk about the, let's talk about the all-star game first because I think it's, uh, there wasn't that much to talk about. |
| 1:30.0 | American League won as they do almost every year. |
| 1:33.3 | Shoahotani did hit a bomb for the National League. |
| 1:37.0 | That was a very fun moment. |
| 1:38.8 | And then pretty much everything else that went right |
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