The Cycle: Injury Updates, MVP Best Bets, Fantasy Baseball Trade Deadline Strategies (Ep. 874)

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Cycle, FantasyPros’ weekly fantasy baseball show, Ryan Wormeli and Mike Maher break down the latest injury updates and what fantasy managers should do with key players like Ozzie Albies, Yamamoto, and Mike Trout. As we approach the final months of the season, they dive into the AL MVP race, evaluating the odds for frontrunners like Aaron Judge, Gunnar Henderson, and Bobby Witt Jr., and discuss who might be worth a speculative bet.

The hosts also highlight recent hot streaks from players such as Brent Rooker and Lawrence Butler, offering insights on whether to buy or sell these performances. With the trade deadline looming, Ryan and Mike provide essential advice on navigating trades in both fantasy leagues and real-life MLB scenarios, spotlighting players like Zach Eflin and Trea Turner. Don’t miss their top waiver wire picks and a look ahead to this weekend’s most exciting matchups, including key series like Red Sox-Yankees and Phillies-Guardians. Tune in for all this and more on The Cycle!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome into the cycle I am Ryan warmly joined as always but not for too much the hunger by Mike Mayer
0:07.7	That is my penultimate episode at least through the regular season before I go back up in the off season.
0:13.7	Just as we get into the time of year with football becoming so prevalent and
0:18.3	a larger percentage of my responsibilities, I will not at the time for baseball anymore
0:21.9	but we have two more episodes to go.
0:23.7	We have this week and then we have next week to kick off August.
0:26.3	I will do my final episode and then we'll get a rotation of guests in here.
0:29.9	We're going to have a lot of Kelly Kirby.
0:31.2	We might get some Welsh, some Bogminman, some of our writers, maybe Tuma comes back.
0:36.0	We got a bunch of names we're going to be looking to join Mayor here as we get into the kind of
0:41.7	home stretch of the fantasy baseball championship run.
0:44.7	But I, and like I've said, I'm here for two more weeks.
0:48.0	So we're gonna have some fun today.
0:49.3	If you like this content, the best free way to show your support and encourage more content like this is to leave a positive review at fantasypros.com slash MLB review.
0:59.0	Mayor, how do you feel about it being my penultimate episode?
1:02.9	Are you excited to not have to deal with me anymore?
1:05.8	Well, it's funny you asked that because I was going to commend you
1:08.4	on your energy at the open, at the top of this show.
1:10.9	I was like, well, look at this guy coming in with great energy.
1:13.6	And then I realized you were just excited to talk about not having to do the show with me anymore.
1:17.8	And so now maybe I won't commend you for that.
1:20.6	It's like an energetic form of senioritis, where it's's like I'm almost done, I'm in the home stretch. I was actually just
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