The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 990)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 42 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 dive into James Wood’s profile, take part in an early season breakouts draft, highlight some recent injuries, and give your their biggest risers and fallers of the season so far!
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Intro - 0:00:00
First Base: James Wood’s Profile - 0:03:28
Signed Nico Hoerner Jersey Giveaway - 0:09:52
Second Base: Drafting Early Season Breakouts - 0:10:18
Hunter Greene - 0:12:11
Kristian Campbell - 0:13:26
Max Meyer - 0:15:11
Tyler Soderstrom - 0:17:26
James Wood - 0:18:53
Spencer Torkelson - 0:20:51
Brice Turang - 0:22:22
Mackenzie Gore - 0:26:46
Casey Mize - 0:29:25
Ben Rice - 0:30:21
Third Base: Latest Injury Updates - 0:34:20
Home Plate: Maher’s Way Too Early Risers and Fallers - 0:36:39
Outro - 0:40:34
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome into The Cycle. |
| 0:37.4 | I am Ryan warmly, joined as always by Mike Mayer. We are talking a whole bunch of stuff around in the basis here in our first segment. We'll have a couple of other shows on both audio and video where we talk about some buys and sales and waiver picks and pitching streamers and our two-star pitcher competition and all the usual stuff that we do |
| 0:54.6 | every single week. This is our first video of the cycle this week. However, where we are rounding |
| 0:59.2 | the basis talking about some of our favorite topics, we're going to be drafting some of our early |
| 1:02.7 | favorite breakouts and really the way we're framing it is breakouts that we most believe in and are |
| 1:07.2 | buying into. We're going to talk about your early. You know, you could say way too |
| 1:12.2 | early. Really, at this point, it's probably just early, not way too early, but your early risers and |
| 1:15.8 | fallers in your rankings. You are one of our most accurate rankers here, Fantasy Pros and |
| 1:20.3 | anywhere based on our tracking and our accuracy competition. So we'll see how your early rankings |
| 1:26.0 | are looking. We'll talk about some injuries. All that fun stuff. How are you doing today, Mayor? |
| 1:31.2 | I'm doing all right. I don't know if you've ever given me a compliment like that before you, you acknowledge my ranking success. So I'm doing even better now. |
| 1:38.6 | It felt gross coming out, but it's just it's just math. Like you finish high in the rankings. It's kind of undeniable. |
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