The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1013)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Join Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) for Part One of this week’s edition of The Cycle!

In this episode, Worm and Maher take some Ls based on their pre-season takes, discuss whether or not Jose Altuve has finally hit the wall, break down some of the latest news and notes from around the league, and give their opinions on the reinstatements of Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)

Intro - 0:00:00

First Base: Take The L - 0:00:50

Adley Rutschman - 0:01:26

Devin Williams - 0:07:09

Jeffrey Springs - 0:09:21

Mike Trout - 0:12:47

Emmanuel Clase - 0:14:35

Signed Jose Ramirez Jersey Giveaway - 0:17:04

Second Base: Is Jose Altuve Washed? - 0:17:29

3rd Base: News, Notes, and Injuries - 0:24:43

Home Plate: Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson - 0:32:25

Outro - 0:39:02

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:10.3	Hello, everybody.
0:11.3	Welcome into the cycle.
0:12.5	I am Ryan warmly.
0:13.5	joined today by Mike Mayer.
0:15.6	Mayor, we're talking to baseball.
0:17.4	It's the middle of May.
0:18.4	I don't really have anything specific to bring up.
0:19.8	How's it going?
0:21.0	Well, then it would be a great show.
0:22.3	It'll be a short show if you don't have anything stupid to talk about.
0:26.0	I wish my Red Sox were better.
0:27.7	They just got swept by the Tigers.
0:29.2	That's not great, especially for a team that could use a few wins.
0:32.9	And my fantasy teams are all over the place.
0:35.8	Some are doing really well. Some are doing really, really poorly. And hopefully everyone out there's teams are doing much better than minor.
0:43.3	Yeah, we're not here to talk about how our real life teams are doing as a Red Sox fan and an
0:47.9	Orioles fan. There's nothing I want to talk about less than the Baltimore Orioles at this very
0:52.1	moment. Although I'm going to talk about some of them in today's show.
0:55.6	You're talking about your fantasy team, some doing well, some doing very poorly.
0:58.8	Speaking of doing very poorly, let's dive right into rounding the bases.
1:02.0	And we're starting off with taking the L.
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