The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1038)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Join Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin) for Part One of this week’s edition of The Cycle

In this episode, Maher and Kelly answer some burning fantasy questions, debate “Buy or Sell” statements, highlight some news and notes from around the league, and also discuss the changing baseballs we see each season

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Intro - 0:00:00

First Base: Burning Questions - 0:01:05

Spencer Strider - 0:01:26

Addison Barger - 0:04:58

Junior Caminero - 0:07:48

Max Muncy - 0:10:21

Ranger Suarez - 0:13:31

Signed Cecil Fielder Jersey Giveaway - 0:16:44

Second Base: Buy or Sell? - 0:20:30

Lance McCullers - 0:21:00

Matt Shaw - 0:22:18

Jac Caglianone - 0:24:00

Mackenzie Gore - 0:27:52

The Tigers - 0:30:59

Third Base: News, Notes, and Injuries - 0:34:33

Sean Manaea - 0:34:40

Tommy Edman - 0:34:54

Hunter Greene - 0:35:22

Max Meyer - 0:35:46

Brandon Woodruff - 0:36:13

Shane McClanahan - 0:36:53

Pablo Lopez - 0:37:43

Home Plate: Wrapping Up - 0:38:58

Dustin Harris - 0:39:04

Changing The Baseballs - 0:40:30

Outro - 0:43:26

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:09.5	Hello, everybody, and welcome back in to another episode of the cycle.
0:13.3	I am not Ryan Wormley.
0:14.7	I am your host, Mike Mayer, and I am joined today by Kelly Kirby, who I think, because you're
0:20.1	going to be on the show next week as well,
0:21.4	I believe, you're going to be here for three weeks in a row. Is that right? That is correct.
0:26.5	I don't know why I don't get my own like, you know, two-start pitcher competition at this point,
0:30.6	but I'll just keep filling in for you guys. That's true. We should just expand the contest
0:35.1	for the three of us. And even when you're not on the show,
0:40.0	have you submit a pick so that we can, you know, we can follow along. We should probably do that.
0:44.2	Probably a little late to do it retroactively. But I'm sure Worm will give you the Shane Smith starts if you
0:50.1	want those to start with. Yeah, for sure. He was really happy about my Shane Smithke, like, gift to him.
0:57.1	But, you know, I didn't burn anybody good.
0:59.5	So that's fine.
1:00.7	Today I'm burning somebody good.
1:02.5	Yeah, I saw that.
1:05.6	But we won't spoil that.
1:06.8	That's two videos from now.
1:08.8	So I have a few different segments here at the top for rounding the basis.
1:13.8	So I'm going to jump right into the first one.
1:15.4	I wanted to do kind of a fun burning question segment.
1:18.2	It felt like a good time of year to do it.
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