The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 980)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 34 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 breakdown Spencer Strider’s return to the mound, the newly released “Ace Rankings” from ESPN, the outlook for Nick Kurtz as he approaches his call-up, and the most added, dropped, and traded players across fantasy baseball over the past week!

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Intro - 0:00:00

1st Base: Spencer Strider’s Return - 0:01:55

Signed Nico Hoerner Jersey Giveaway - 0:08:14

2nd Base: ESPN’s Ace Rankings - 0:08:38

3rd Base: Nick Kurtz and 1B Rankings - 0:16:44

Home Plate: Most Added, Dropped, and Traded Players - 0:22:18

Outro - 0:32:57

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0:35.0	Hello, everybody.
0:36.1	Welcome into the cycle.
0:54.2	I am Ryan warmly joined joined as always by Mike. Mayor, we are talking a whole bunch of stuff. We're going to talk some pictures. We're going to talk some bylaws and sell highs. Those will be in some of the later segments that you can find on YouTube and on audio. We're going to start things off with rounding the bases as always.
0:58.4	Before we dive into some of the trending topics around the league, Mayor, how are you doing?
1:01.5	How are, now that we're like a couple weeks in, because like that first week, it's okay,
1:02.4	it can be kind of a fluke.
1:04.6	You never know, like, you know, it's really small sample size.
1:08.4	A couple weeks in, how are your teams looking for the 2025 fantasy season?
1:12.6	It's kind of a mixed bag of everything. There's a couple leagues I'm doing really well. There's at least one league.
1:13.6	I'm doing really poorly.
1:14.6	And the other few on like average to above average, but you know, across my, I think I'm in eight leagues.
1:21.6	I'm doing fairly well in most of them, maybe one or two.
1:25.6	I got some work to do. I'm in trouble, especially one that
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