The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1068)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 41 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 talk about Chase Burns’ electric debut, play a game of “2nd Half Buy or Sell” featuring some standout rookies, go over some recent news and notes, and highlight the fantastic performance we have seen from Cal Raleigh so far this season!

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Intro - 0:00:00

First Base: Chase Burns - 0:03:39

Signed Cecil Fielder Jersey Giveaway - 0:11:16

Second Base: 2nd Half Buy or Sell Rookies - 0:11:40

Jac Caglianone and Nick Kurtz - 0:13:10

Christian Moore - 0:16:43

Rookie Pitcher Rankings - 0:20:35

Third Base: News, Notes, and Injuries - 0:25:12

Max Meyer - 0:25:16

Corbin Carroll - 0:26:19

Sean Manaea - 0:26:32

Zach Neto - 0:27:09

Yordan Alvarez - 0:28:08

Austin Hays - 0:28:19

Hunter Greene - 0:28:39

Shane McClanahan - 0:29:56

Alex Bregman - 0:30:16

Home Plate: Cal Raleigh - 0:31:01

Outro - 0:38:42

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0:40.6	Hello everybody.
0:41.9	Welcome into the cycle.
0:44.7	I'm Ryan warmly, joined as always by Mike Mayer.
0:48.4	We are talking a whole bunch of stuff today on rounding the bases.
0:50.0	We're going to talk a little Chase Burns.
0:54.6	We're actually going to talk a lot of rookies here as we do a little bit of a second half buy or sell.
0:57.2	And just a warning to everybody.
0:58.3	There's way too many rookies.
1:02.2	So we are not talking about all of them because otherwise we'll be here for about seven hours.
1:03.8	So we're going to run through that.
1:05.5	We'll be talking some news, notes, and injuries.
1:10.8	Some unfortunate ones there for us, particularly for many of my fantasy teams, some unfortunate injury updates.
1:13.1	And then I also wanted to take some time to talk a little bit about Cal Rale, just because
1:16.8	he's awesome.
1:18.0	And I don't think we talk enough about him on the show and what he's doing so far this year.
1:21.2	So that's kind of what we have on the docket here.
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