The Cycle: Top Pickups and Streamers For Fantasy Playoffs (Ep. 1132)

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Close the book on an epic MLB season with a new edition of "The Cycle," where Mike Maher and Kelly Kirby share their favorite 2025 fantasy baseball start/sits, streamers and two-start pitchers for the upcoming week!

What's the deal with Boston Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman? Is Chicago Cubs SP Cade Horton set up for success in his upcoming two-start week? Plus, can Los Angeles Dodgers SP Clayton Kershaw carry managers to a championship!

The Pros send you home one last time!

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Introduction - 0:00:00

Start/Sit: Top Teams To Target - 0:03:07

Adolis Garcia (OF, DH - TEX) - 0:04:03

Alex Bregman (3B - BOS) - 0:06:22

Royce Lewis (3B, DH - MIN) - 0:08:54

Trent Grisham (OF - NYY)/Colson Montgomery (3B, SS - CWS) - 0:12:21

Jo Adell (OF - LAA) - 0:14:28

Tommy Edman (2B, 3B, SS, OF - LAD) - 0:16:04

Austin Hays (OF, DH - CIN) - 0:17:54

Jose Altuve (2B, OF, SH - HOU) - 0:20:59

Jorge Polanco (2B, 3B, DH - SEA) - 0:22:26

Hard Rock Bet - 0:23:11

Two-Start Pitchers - 0:24:41

Spencer Strider (SP - ATL) - 0:27:47

Jeffrey Springs (SP - ATH) - 0:28:38

Kyle Bradish (SP - BAL) - 0:29:34

Connelly Early (SP - BOS) - 0:30:13

Cade Horton (SP - CHC) - 0:31:05

Jameson Taillon (SP - CHC) - 0:31:44

Jack Flaherty (SP - DET) - 0:32:28

Jack Leiter (SP, RP - TEX) - 0:32:54

Hitting Streamers - 0:34:09

Andrew Benintendi (OF, DH - CWS) - 0:34:51

Nolan Arenado (3B - STL) - 0:37:05

Kyle Manzardo (1B, DH - CLE) - 0:37:56

Dansby Swanson (SS - CHC) - 0:39:47

Ha-Seong Kim (2B, SS - ATL) - 0:41:44

Pitching Streamers - 0:44:29

Friday: Clayton Kershaw (SP - LAD) - 0:45:05

Weekend Pitching Streamers: Parker Messick (SP - CLE) & Cecconi (SP, RP - CLE) - 0:45:36

Two-Start Pitching Competition Week 21 & 22 Recap - 0:46:22

Final Two-Start Pitching Picks - 0:47:13

Outro - 0:48:40

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.0	Hey, this is Matt Jones.
0:06.5	I'm Drew Franklin.
0:07.5	And this is NFL cover zero.
0:10.2	We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different.
0:15.1	Did you see the Colts pretzel?
0:16.5	That was my other big takeaway from that game.
0:17.9	What was that?
0:18.9	Oh, my.
0:20.1	We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining.
0:23.8	And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get.
0:27.2	Listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:45.0	Hello everybody.
0:47.7	Welcome back in to another episode of The Cycle.
0:49.2	I am your host, Mike Mayer.
0:51.7	I am joined once again by Kelly Kirby.
0:56.6	And this is actually going to be our last episode of the season,
1:01.4	at least in terms of the in-season content. We're going to come back in a few weeks and do kind of a season recap, look ahead to 2026. But with everyone in head-to-head leagues, or not everyone,
1:08.0	most people in head-to-head leagues having their championships next week.
1:11.6	And if you don't, and if you're playing that final week is your championship week,
1:14.7	you need to talk to your commissioner and fix that because no one should be playing the final week in any league.
1:19.8	And so we're here.
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