The Cycle: Rounding The Bases, Waiver Wire Central, and Pitching Streamers (Ep. 1117)

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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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

In this episode, Mike and Kelly break down some recent injuries and players who have recently returned, discuss some of the hottest teams from around the league, and talk about some strategies for the stretch run!

Then, they break down some hot and cold players, run through the waiver wire to highlight the top adds this weekend, highlight pitching streamers for next week, and make selections in their two-start pitching competition!

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)

Intro - 0:00:00

First Base: Injuries and Returns - 0:01:41

Third Base: Brewers, Dodgers, and Padres - 0:09:07

Home Plate: Strategies For The Stretch Run - 0:17:22

Second Base: What’s The Deal With These Guys? - 0:23:37

Pete Crow-Armstrong - 0:24:36

Max Fried - 0:29:04

Colon Montgomery - 0:33:49

Mookie Betts - 0:36:08

Matt Shaw - 0:39:44

Waiver Wire Central - 0:41:57

Blaze Alexander - 0:42:36

Jakob Marsee - 0:44:11

Clayton Kershaw - 0:50:05

Cristian Javier - 0:51:46

Deep League Targets - 0:54:28

FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:55:24

Pitching Streamers - 0:55:45

Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 1:01:30

Outro - 1:04:45

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:09.5	Hello, everybody.
0:11.8	Welcome back in to another episode of The Cycle.
0:14.9	Worm is finally gone.
0:16.5	He's not going to make an appearance in the show.
0:18.2	It's just me and Kelly Kirby.
0:20.7	And Kelly, how are you doing
0:22.2	today? I'm doing pretty well. I think that the week is gone well so far. But, you know,
0:28.5	it's Thursday. I can really tank this afternoon. So I'm holding out hope. Yeah. And that's a good point.
0:34.4	We are recording us on Thursday. Throughout the season, we've experimented with different kinds of recording schedules
0:41.3	and production publishing schedules.
0:45.3	This week, we're going to be back to one video.
0:48.1	And so we had some kind of production issues with getting the shows out on time.
0:52.8	You know, there would be stuff we record on Thursday morning, not coming out
0:55.8	to Sunday afternoon.
0:57.3	It was not a great look.
0:58.7	So we're going to try just one episode.
1:00.5	We're recording like late Thursday afternoon.
1:03.0	This will probably come out Friday night slash Saturday morning and then be pinned to the top
1:08.1	of our feed throughout the weekend.
1:09.1	So you'll be able to watch all of this in one episode throughout the weekend.
1:14.6	We're not really going to cut anything from the last show.
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