The Cycle: Rounding The Bases, Waiver Wire Central, and Pitching Streamers (Ep. 1121)
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iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 54 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 debate some pitchers and their rest-of-season viability, discuss some young studs in the making who have been solid fantasy assets in 2025, run through the best waiver wire pickups of the weekend, and make selections for their two-start pitcher competition!
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Intro - 0:00:00
First Base: Pitchers! Injuries, Returns, and Struggles - 0:02:39
Dustin May or Sandy Alcantara? - 0:02:56
Spencer Strider or Kodai Senga? - 0:05:35
Shane Bieber, Bryce Miller, and Kyle Bradish - 0:07:46
Framber Valdez and Luis Castillo - 0:10:34
Second Base: Youngsters on the Rise - 0:14:37
Waiver Wire Central - 0:27:52
Giancarlo Stanton - 0:28:37
Trent Grisham - 0:33:56
Cam Schlittler - 0:37:02
Nolan McLean - 0:39:16
Deep League Targets - 0:40:08
FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:40:44
Pitching Streamers - 0:41:36
Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 0:46:40
Outro - 0:53:02
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:12.9 | Welcome back into another episode of The Cycle. |
| 0:15.6 | I am your host, Mike Mayer. |
| 0:16.9 | I am joined once again by Kelly Kirby, and we have a lot to get to today. |
| 0:20.5 | We're going to move very quickly, and I have a lot to get to today. We're going to move very |
| 0:21.2 | quickly and I have a lot of pitchers that I want us to talk about. So we'll hit those right at the top. |
| 0:26.7 | And Kelly, I told you before the show that last week we went T-ball style where we did first base, |
| 0:32.5 | third base, second base, home base or home-based second base. You know know we did basically a star this week for rounding |
| 0:39.3 | the bases we're going to go cricket style we're doing two bases i believe unless my uh google searches have |
| 0:46.2 | failed me and my uh cricket highlights have failed me that cricket only has two bases so we're |
| 0:50.8 | only doing two today so first off how, how are you doing? And secondly, |
| 0:56.0 | how do you feel about playing cricket today? I'm doing pretty well. I'm really hoping that I |
| 1:01.8 | have all the right microphone set up this week so that they don't have to try to put my stuff |
| 1:06.2 | together and give me like an accidental list. But we'll see. The YouTube commenters will let you |
| 1:10.8 | know for sure. I'm sure they will. And yeah, I'm kind of excited about cricket. You know, that's a good like 3 a.m. Insomnia watch on one of the ESPNs. So let's do it. Have you ever bet on cricket? I have never bet on cricket. I have not. I've never bet on cricket. I have bet on Korean baseball and I've recently started betting on e-sports, which is, you know, |
| 1:32.1 | not problematic at all. |
| 1:34.0 | That's a different podcast. |
| 1:35.8 | There are no phone numbers for you for that. |
| 1:39.5 | Right. |
| 1:40.1 | Before we jump in, I do have a basically random topic I want to get to. |
| 1:45.9 | The other day I was listening to just a random playlist in my car and Eminem's Till I Collapse |
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