The Cycle: Too Early 2026 Mock Draft (Ep. 1093)

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Join Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) for this week’s edition of The Cycle!

In this episode, Worm and Maher kick things off by recapping the MLB Draft, HR Derby, and All-Star Game!

Later on, they go through a two-round early 2026 Mock Draft, discussing their selections while also breaking down players who just missed the cut!

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Intro - 0:00:00

MLB Draft Recap - 0:02:20

Home Run Derby and All-Star Game - 0:08:26

Injury News and Notes - 0:15:10

Dynasty Trade Discussion - 0:16:34

Signed Juan Gonzalez Jersey Giveaway - 0:25:42

Too Early Mock Draft - 0:26:04

Round 1 - 0:26:21

Shohei Ohtani - 0:26:30

Bobby Witt Jr. - 0:28:33

Aaron Judge - 0:29:20

Ronald Acuna Jr. - 0:30:55

Pete Crow-Armstrong - 0:32:52

Elly De La Cruz - 0:34:25

Cal Raleigh - 0:35:40

Jose Ramirez - 0:35:53

Kyle Tucker - 0:36:55

Tarik Skubal - 0:38:13

James Wood - 0:40:15

Juan Soto - 0:41:36

Round 2 - 0:44:14

Fernando Tatis Jr. - 0:45:32

Garrett Crochet - 0:46:34

Mookie Betts - 0:49:43

Paul Skenes - 0:53:01

Gunnar Henderson - 0:53:49

Jackson Chourio - 0:54:42

FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:55:00

Corbin Carroll - 0:55:27

Francisco Lindor - 0:57:17

Zack Wheeler - 0:59:27

Junior Caminero - 1:00:52

Julio Rodriguez - 1:02:15

Hunter Brown - 1:07:29

Players That Just Missed - 1:07:33

Two-Start Pitcher Competition- 1:12:15

Outro - 1:15:05

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0:32.3	Lenovo, Lenovo. Hello everybody. Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan warmly, joined as always by Mike Mayer.
0:45.9	Mayor, it is the third straight week of us kind of approaching the show a little differently than our usual format.
0:52.2	A couple weeks ago, it was the holiday with Fourth of July. Last week we had, you know, kind of going into the All-Star break. It was a little weird, you know, not having the upcoming week. This week, we don't have the previous week of games, right? Because it was the All-Star break. So we'll be back to our kind of our normal format of three different parts spread out on both audio and video starting next week.
1:11.7	For this week, we're doing one final, one episode of the whole week edition of the cycle.
1:17.7	We're going to talk some news and notes, kind of react to Homer and Derby, All-Star Game,
1:22.0	MLB draft at the top of the show.
1:24.1	And then what we're going to do is a way too early 2026 baseball mock draft. Probably didn't need to say baseball. Everybody knows that for the show. And then what we're going to do is a way too early 2026 baseball mock draft.
1:29.1	Probably didn't need to say baseball. Everybody knows that for the show they're listening to. But yeah, we're going to do a 2026 early mock. We're going to do two rounds of that. And just kind of take an early look at who the guys are that we think are going to be at the top next year. and see where we go.
1:25.2	I actually very specifically did not prep for that.
1:28.7	I mean, obviously, I have all the names in mind, but I didn't like sit down and lay out a big board because I wanted to kind of feel in the moment. Like I wanted this to kind of be like a gut check like how are we feeling less so than like well, the numbers say it'll probably be this guy. Does that make sense?
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