The Cycle: The 10 BIGGEST Fantasy Baseball Questions for the 2025 Season (Ep. 957)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Get Opening Day started with a brand new episode of The Cycle, where Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikemaher) answer the 10 BIGGEST fantasy baseball questions for the 2025 MLB season!
How does Los Angeles Dodgers SP/DH Shohei Ohtani follow-up his historic 2024 season in his return to pitching? Will Pittsburgh Pirates SP Paul Skenes be worth the first-round pick managers spent in fantasy drafts? Plus, will any speedster break 50 stolen bases this year?
The Pros answer the call before regular season baseball officially begins.
Timestamps:
Introduction - 0:00:00
Shohei Ohtani (SP, DH - LAD) - 0:03:48
Paul Skenes (SP - PIT) - 0:10:42
John Smoltz Autographed Braves Jersey Giveaway - 0:14:11
Do Any Pitchers Throw 200+ Innings? - 0:14:44
Can 2025 Rookie Hitters Shine? - 0:19:04
Mike Trout (OF - LAA) - 0:24:17
Weekend Fantasy Baseball Drafts Recap - 0:24:56
Microsoft Chasing Challenges - 0:27:06
Will Any Player Break 50 Stolen Bases? - 0:28:43
Spencer Strider (SP - ATL) & Ronald Acuna Jr. (OF - ATL) - 0:32:21
FantasyPros My Playbook App - 0:36:21
Garrett Crochet (SP - BOS) - 0:36:45
Chicago White Sox Other Than Luis Robert Jr. To Roster - 0:41:10
Players Who Will & Won’t Be First-Rounders in 2026 - 0:43:24
Outro - 0:50:03
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome into the cycle. |
| 0:08.5 | I am Ryan warmly joined, as always, by Mike Mayer. |
| 0:11.3 | And Mayor, assuming this gets out when we think it's going to, today is opening day. |
| 0:15.8 | We are recording this a day early, so it is not for us. |
| 0:18.2 | But for the people listening, it is the greatest day of the year. |
| 0:21.8 | This is like Christmas for baseball fans. |
| 0:24.7 | It is absolutely in my top three days. |
| 0:27.1 | On the calendar, there's just a romanticism with spring baseball opening day, just having |
| 0:32.5 | it back in your lives, the pageantry. |
| 0:34.4 | I just, I love it. |
| 0:36.4 | And I am so, so, so excited for this season to finally be here. |
| 0:41.1 | You're tossing it to me? You didn't really ask me anything there. I kind of thought we had |
| 0:46.2 | had enough of a chemistry at this point that you can feel free to jump in without needing a |
| 0:50.6 | question. I'm not in interviewing you. Well, it's funny because the whole time you were talking, |
| 0:56.0 | I made sure to keep like straight, clear eye contact on you |
| 0:59.2 | because last week someone in the YouTube comments said that like you are always great |
| 1:03.9 | at like bringing the energy with like the intro, |
| 1:06.0 | whereas like I'm looking around like confused about where the audio is coming from. |
| 1:09.4 | And I'm like, first off, I'm looking at my monitors, making sure I'm prepared. But this time I made sure locked in, |
| 1:14.4 | ready to go. We were on audio only last year. So you're still getting used to some of the camera |
| 1:20.0 | stuff. Not that you haven't been on camera before, but I did it a bit more than you last season. So |
| 1:25.5 | probably just getting used to that. I'm kind of with you, |
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