The Cycle: News Updates, Second Half Bold Predictions, and HR Derby Draft (Ep. 1086)
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Join Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) for this week’s edition of The Cycle!
In this episode, Worm and Maher go through some news and injury updates, discuss ABS being used at the All-Star Game, the MLB Draft, make some bold predictions for the second half, and participate in a HR Derby Draft!
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Intro - 0:00:00
News Updates - 0:02:17
Dallas Keuchel - 0:02:23
ABS During All-Star Game - 0:02:39
MLB Draft and The Washington Nationals - 0:07:12
Injury Updates - 0:10:45
Post All-Star Break Predictions - 0:16:13
Junior Caminero - 0:18:03
Hunter Brown - 0:23:01
Signed Juan Gonzalez Jersey Giveaway - 0:30:33
Chandler Simpson - 0:30:55
Players with 50+ and 40+ HR - 0:37:25
Cal Raleigh - 0:42:04
20 Win Pitchers - 0:47:29
Bold Trade Predictions - 0:54:45
World Series Predictions - 0:55:55
FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:58:18
Home Run Derby Draft - 0:58:35
Outro - 1:11:13
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| 0:40.7 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome into the cycle. |
| 0:44.8 | I am Ryan warmly, joined as always by Mike Mayer. |
| 0:47.8 | Mayor, we are here at almost the All-Star break. And in fact, it might even be the All-Star break for some people listening to this if they waited a couple of days after it gets released. |
| 0:53.9 | We are just doing one episode. |
| 0:55.8 | We always do kind of one quote unquote episode of the cycle. |
| 0:58.2 | We're doing only one part today rather than breaking it up because there are not a lot of games next week and not until next weekend. |
| 1:05.4 | We're not doing our usual pitching streamers. |
| 1:08.3 | Obviously, we can't really do the two-star pitcher contest. |
| 1:10.5 | We've got a fun way to still kind of go ahead to head against each other and something for next |
| 1:15.8 | week. Anyway, we'll get to later in the show. But yeah, just won't be one episode this week. You don't |
| 1:20.0 | need to look for a part two or part three for all the listeners who are used to seeing that on |
| 1:23.3 | audio and video. What we're going to be doing today is some news and notes, which there actually |
| 1:27.5 | isn't really all that much. It's a lot of minor news and notes updates. We felt like it was kind of |
| 1:31.5 | not very newsworthy week. We're going to do some bold predictions for the post all-star break. |
| 1:37.0 | So second half post-all-star break, however you want to call it. We're going to do some |
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