The Cycle: Buy Low and Sell High Targets + Waiver Wire Deep Dive (Ep. 1040)

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Join Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin) for Part Two of this week’s edition of The Cycle!

In this episode, Mike and Kelly highlight their favorite buy low and sell high targets before going through the best pick-ups that you can make off the waiver wire this weekend!

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)

Intro - 0:00:00

Buy Lows - 0:00:24

Yainer Diaz - 0:00:44

Juan Soto - 0:04:34

Sell Highs - 0:08:51

Jacob Wilson - 0:08:54

Cal Raleigh - 0:13:27

Kyzatrex - 0:18:09

Waiver Wire Central - 0:19:54

Ha-Seong Kim - 0:20:08

Ronny Mauricio - 0:23:35

Eury Perez - 0:25:38

Mick Abel - 0:27:37

Deep League Targets - 0:30:39

Outro - 0:33:17

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:09.6	Hello everybody.
0:11.1	Welcome back in to another episode of The Cycle.
0:13.8	This is our second video of the week.
0:15.7	And if you missed the first one, rounding the basis,
0:17.9	where we talk about all kinds of trending players and news, notes, notes and injuries you can go back and catch out that first video catch that first video
0:25.5	and on this video we're going to be talking about players were buying low players were selling high
0:29.6	and some waiver wire targets and so let's dive right into it with buy low sell high and in this
0:35.4	segment Kelly and I will both give our favorite Bailos and our favorite
0:40.0	sell highs.
0:41.2	And Kelly, since you are the guest and I am forced to host with Worm taking a vacation,
0:47.6	apparently, let's toss it to you first for your favorite Bilo player this week.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:57.3	So I was looking at Yiner Diaz this week.
1:01.2	I really like the fact that he's catcher and first base eligible.
1:06.2	Just because most of the time I'm not all about going and chasing catchers, but he's got kind of that dual that you can plug him and play him in each spot.
1:11.3	But all of his underlying numbers point toward improvement.
1:15.2	Right now he has just, I wrote down it's a putrid line, which that's not a word I use all that often.
1:20.6	He's got seven home runs, but that's been turned up as of late.
1:24.5	He's got 20 runs scored.
1:25.9	He only has 24 RBIs.
1:29.8	But one of the biggest culprits, I think, is that his current BABIP is 255 and his career number there is 309. So
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