The Cycle: Pitching Streamers and Two-Start Pitcher Competition (Ep. 1000)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Stop relying on dead-end arms. Work your way through the next week of fantasy baseball matchups by joining Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin) on this edition of "The Cycle," where they provide their top pitching streamers for each day and favorite two-start pitchers to play!
Can Kansas City Royals SP Michael Wacha take advantage of a sub-par Chicago White Sox lineup on Wednesday? Will Milwaukee Brewers SP Jose Quintana keep providing fantasy-friendly numbers against the Tampa Bay Rays? Plus, what should you expect from Philadelphia Phillies SP Zack Wheeler in his two starts against the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians?
The Pros queue up another line of playable arms!
Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)
Introduction - 0:00:00
FantasyPros Pitching Streamer Tool Ad Read - 0:00:00
Monday: Shane Smith (SP, RP - CWS) @ KC - 0:01:44
Tuesday: Steven Matz (SP, RP - STL) vs. PIT - 0:04:34
Wednesday: Michael Wacha (SP - KC) vs. CWS - 0:05:52
Thursday: Tomoyuki Sugano (SP - BAL) vs. MIN - 0:7:52
Friday: Jose Quintana (SP - MIL) @ TB - 0:10:02
Saturday Options - 0:12:22
Sunday: Lucas Giolito (SP - BOS) @ KC - 0:14:12
Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 0:16:48
Shane Smith (SP, RP - CWS) @ KC, vs. MIA - 0:17:35
Zack Wheeler (SP - PHI) @ TB, @ CLE - 0:19:12
Weekend Excitement - 0:20:58
Outro - 0:24:13
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| 0:56.2 | Welcome back in to the third segment of the cycle for this week. I am once again, Mike Mayer, still Mike Mayer, and I am joined once again by Kelly Kirby. And Kelly, how are you doing? And are you ready to close out this week's series of the cycle? Yeah, I think I'm doing better. Um, and better than worm. I'm way better than worm. But, uh, yeah, no, I'm doing well and I'm excited |
| 1:02.5 | to close it out because I love talking pitching. So this should be great. I do too. I'm in a bunch |
| 1:07.7 | of leagues where I, um, I stream pitching by choice or necessity or I just |
| 1:12.7 | do it to torture myself. But I like kind of targeting matchups that I like. Sometimes I'll |
| 1:18.5 | do like a week or two in advance, see if I can kind of sneak pitchers in that way. Like we talked |
| 1:22.1 | in the previous video, I kind of snuck Tony Gonslin in it before people were thinking about him. |
| 1:26.2 | That went very well. |
| 1:27.8 | Dwightse Myers, not going so well for me. |
| 1:30.2 | But yeah, let's get right into it. |
| 1:32.1 | We often use, when we talk pitching streamers, we kind of go day by day because some |
| 1:37.5 | people like to, we've heard some requests. |
| 1:39.9 | Some people like to have pitching streamers for every day because they're in daily |
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