The Cycle: Bold Predictions You Can’t Hold Us To (Ep. 944)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Spice up your 2025 fantasy baseball season by joining Ryan Wormeli and Mike Maher, as they share their bold predictions that you can't hold them to!
Could New York Yankees RP Devin WIlliams receive top-three AL Cy Young Award votes? Is a 30-30 season in the range of outcomes for Milwaukee Brewers OF Jackson Chourio? Plus, could Tampa Bay Rays rookie OF Chandler Smilspon lead MLB in stolen bases in 2025?
The Pros go out on a limb with their latest prophecies!
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00:00
Defining Regression - 0:03:28
John Smoltz Autographed Atlanta Braves Jersey Giveaway - 0:05:28
Jackson Chourio (OF - MIL) - 0:06:22
Elly De La Cruz (SS - CIN) - 0:12:54
FantasyPros MLB Draft Kit - 0:18:57
Devin Williams (RP - NYY) - 0:19:33
Clay Holmes (SP - NYM) - 0:25:16
Sandy Alcantara (SP - MIA) - 0:29:23
Chandler Simpson (OF - TB) - 0:33:50
Oneil Cruz (SS, OF - PIT) - 0:39:40
Michael Conforto (OF, DH - LAD) - 0:42:05
Cody Bellinger (1B, OF, DH - NYY) - 0:43:45
Aroldis Chapman (RP - BOS) - 0:46:39
Bold Predictions Recap - 0:48:29
Next Week on The Cycle - 0:49 :21
Outro - 0:49:55
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan warmly, joined as always by Mike Mayer. We are fresh off Fantasy Fest 2025 MLB edition. So be sure to check out the Fantasy Pro's MLB page on YouTube and go check that out. If you missed it live, we did four hours yesterday. |
| 0:23.3 | Joey P. |
| 0:24.0 | And the Welsh started off. |
| 0:25.0 | They did most of it. |
| 0:26.2 | Mayor and I hopped on for the final hour. |
| 0:27.9 | Had a couple of good segments talking with Eric Cross, George Bissell, Scott Pianowski. |
| 0:32.3 | It was a great time. |
| 0:33.5 | I know everybody had a great time. |
| 0:34.7 | So shots out again. |
| 0:35.7 | I kind of thanked everybody yesterday at the end of that stream, but shots to everybody who had any involvement in that. It was awesome. So like I said, if you missed it, definitely go to our YouTube page and check it out. We've got some best of segments on there. We're going to cut up a lot of the individual segments. Or you could watch the whole stream front to back if you'd really like. It was a fun time as always. |
| 0:55.3 | Are you tired after that mayor? Are you feeling excited to talk a little more baseball with me |
| 0:59.3 | after we just did an hour yesterday? How are you feeling? I'm a little tired, not necessarily because |
| 1:03.9 | of Fantasy Fest, but I was up late preparing for this show, making sure we were as prepared as |
| 1:09.0 | possible. So don't have a ton of sleep in me |
| 1:11.7 | the last 48 hours, but still excited and ready to go. I would like to get everybody's |
| 1:16.3 | opinion in the comments on mayor's outfit here. We decided to wear our fantasy pros baseball |
| 1:22.1 | jerseys because we meant to wear them for the fest and forgot. So we're like, oh, we'll wear them |
| 1:25.6 | for the cycle. So after watching on YouTube, you could check that out. |
| 1:28.2 | We got these at a team trip a couple of years ago. |
| 1:30.5 | They were kind of regionally done. |
| 1:32.0 | That's why mine is a different color than his. |
| 1:33.9 | I think they're awesome. |
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