The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 998)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Catch up on the latest buzz around the Majors when hosts of "The Cycle," Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin), round the bases to catch fantasy baseball managers up on the latest news, burning questions and breakouts they expect to last or fizzle out!
Is it time to dump Miami Marlins SP Sandy Alcantara? Should you be concerned about Los Angeles Angels OF/DH Mike Trout being pulled from a game? Plus, are breakouts like Chicago Cubs OF Pete Crow-Armstrong and San Diego Padres SP Nick Pivetta sticky?
The Pros turn up the heat as May baseball begins!
Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)
Introduction - 0:00:00
Sandy Alcantara (SP - MIA) - 0:01:32
Mike Trout (OF, DH - LAA) - 0:07:16
FantasyPros Lineup Assistant Ad Read - 0:12:13
Tony Gonsolin (SP - LAD), Lucas Giolito (SP - BOS) & Tobias Myers (SP - MIL) - 0:14:00
Ranger Suarez (SP - PHI), Brandon Woodruff (SP - MIL) & Lance McCullers (SP - HOU) - 0:18:37
Jorge Polanco (2B, 3B, DH - SEA) - 0:22:17
Jung Hoo Lee (OF - SF) - 0:24:24
Pete Crow-Armstrong (OF - CHC) - 0:25:35
Tyler Soderstrom (1B, OF - ATH) - 0:26:33
Nick Pivetta (SP - SD) - 0:27:34
Hunter Brown (SP - HOU) - 0:28:14
Nick Lodolo (SP - CIN) - 0:28:50
Aaron Judge (OF, DH - NYY) - 0:29:50
Baltimore Orioles - 0:31:09
NL West - 0:32:16
Ronald Acuna Jr. (OF - ATLANTA) - 0:33:14
AL West - 0:34:24
MLB Trade Market - 0:35:41
Shohei Ohtani (SP, DH - LAD) - 0:36:37
Outro - 0:37:53
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| 0:31.4 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:40.2 | And welcome back in to another episode of The Cycle. |
| 0:46.4 | I am your host today, Mike Mayer, and I am joined by not Ryan Warmly, but Kelly Kirby. |
| 0:48.9 | And Kelly, how are you doing today? |
| 0:50.4 | I'm doing pretty well. |
| 0:53.6 | I think the last time that we did this was when I podcasted from heaven. |
| 1:01.6 | So I upgraded for today. So I'm excited to be back. Yeah, you have the betting pros backdrop. |
| 1:07.0 | You have very, for people watching on YouTube, she has very fun red glasses that match her Cubs jacket, much more stylish than the guy wearing a black shirt with a navy blue |
| 1:14.3 | hat. But I've been told that navy blue and black, you can do that now. It's no longer |
| 1:20.6 | like a fashion no-no. You're allowed to do it. So I take full advantage and do it all the time. |
| 1:25.2 | Absolutely. All right. |
| 1:33.2 | So you're all, you all have the pleasure of having me host today, and everyone knows how wonderful and energetic host I am. |
| 1:35.7 | And so let's get right into it. |
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