The Cycle: Fantasy Baseball Takeaways, Trade Candidates & Waiver Pickups After MLB's Opening Week (Ep. 966)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Wade through the early MLB season madness with this episode of The Cycle, where Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikemaher) break down everything from early-season risers and fallers, trade targets, fantasy baseball waiver wire targets and streaming pitcher options!
Is Chicago Cubs C Carson Kelly a must-add on the waiver wire after hitting for the cycle? Did managers get more than they bargained for when drafting Texas Rangers SP Nathan Eovaldi? Plus, could Detroit Tigers SP Casey Mize make a season-long impact?
The Pros dig into the first live action of the regular season!
Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00:00
Carson Kelly (C - CHC) Hits for the Cycle - 0:02:56
Nathan Eovaldi (SP - TEX) Tosses First Maddux of 2025 - 0:05:39
Rafael Devers (3B, DH - BOS) - 0:07 :45
Other Slow-Starting Studs - 0:12:59
Nico Horner Cubs Jersey Giveaway - 0:14 :40
Torpedo Bats or Juiced Balls? - 0:14:27
New Ballpark Factors - 0:17:57
Surprising Early Standouts 0:18:50
News, Notes & Injuries - 0:20:27
Microsoft Chasing Challenges - 0:22:37
Buy-Low/Sell High - 0:24:26
Wilson Contreras (C, 1B, DH - STL) & William Conteras (C, DH - MIL) - 0:25:06
Adley Rutschman (C, DH - BAL) - 0:28:08
Eugenio Suarez (3B - ARI) - 0:30:28
Andres Gimenez (2B - TOR) - 0:32:19
Waivers Central - 0:35:34
Alek Thomas (OF - ATL) - 0:35:44
Heston Kjerstad (OF - BAL) - 0:35:58
Otto Lopez (2B, SS - MIA) - 0:37:09
Casey Mize (SP - DET) - 0:38:18
Jesus Luzardo (SP - PHI) & Dustin May (SP - LAD) - 0:41:35
Deep League Targets - 0:42:29
FantasyPros MLB Lineup Assistant- 0:44:19
Pitching Streamers - 0:44:42
Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 0:51:15
Weekend Excitement - 0:53:18
Outro - 0:55:22
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| 0:35.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan warmly joined today and as I will be all |
| 0:41.7 | season long by Mike Mayer. It is our first in-season episode of the 2025 season. Very exciting. |
| 0:50.2 | We are transitioning from our off-season coverage, which was very fun. We're doing every week to kind of a similar pattern to what we were doing last year, Mayor. |
| 0:59.1 | We're going to hit on kind of rounding the bases at the top, some of the big topics of the |
| 1:02.6 | week and news items, maybe some injuries that stand out that are worth hitting on that |
| 1:06.4 | maybe we want to take a bigger picture view than the guys on leading off we're able to do |
| 1:10.5 | on their daily show. We'll talk about some waiver pickups we like. We'll talk about some buy lows and sell |
| 1:15.2 | highs. And we, of course, are going to talk about our two-star pitcher competition and maybe some |
| 1:20.5 | streaming pictures that we like and some weekend excitement as well. That's all going to be together |
| 1:24.9 | on one episode on the audio side for those on the YouTube side, we're going to be splitting up this show, kind of into three parts throughout the year. |
| 1:31.0 | So you can check us out on YouTube if you just want to hit that middle section of the show or the end section. |
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