The Cycle: The Biggest Fantasy Baseball Questions For The Second Half (Ep. 1077)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 43 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 hit on some of the biggest fantasy questions as we head into the second half of the season!
Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)
Intro - 0:00:00
Luis Ortiz Investigation - 0:02:04
PCA vs Cal Raleigh - 0:13:56
Potential Trade Deadline Moves - 0:17:52
Signed Juan Gonzalez Jersey Giveaway - 0:21:51
Second Half Rookie Impacts - 0:22:15
Under The Radar SPs - 0:27:41
Non-Closing Relievers To Target - 0:30:29
Second Half Bounce Backs - 0:34:42
Outro - 0:39:51
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:41.5 | Hello, everybody. welcome into the cycle. |
| 0:44.5 | I am Ryan Wormley, joined today by Mike Mayer. |
| 0:50.8 | It is the day before 4th of July, kind of an unofficial-ish midway point of the season. |
| 0:55.0 | I think if you look at the games played, we're technically a little bit past it at this point, Mayor. |
| 1:00.1 | But we wanted to use this holiday and this like pseudo midway point to look ahead to the second half. |
| 1:00.8 | So on today's episode of Rounding the Bases, which is part one of the cycle, |
| 1:04.9 | we're kind of taking a different approach instead of our usual run-through of different |
| 1:09.5 | trending topics, then maybe a specific debate we wanted |
| 1:12.5 | to have, so news, notes, and injuries. We're running through some key questions for the second |
| 1:17.4 | half of the show. These kind of burning questions type shows is one of our favorite formats to |
| 1:21.8 | do here at Fantasy Pros. We did one for the whole year prior to opening day. |
| 1:30.1 | So now we're going to kind of do one of key questions for the second half here. |
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