The Cycle: Top Waiver Wire Adds and Pitching Streamers (Ep. 1078)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Join Ryan Wormeli (@RyanWarmly) and Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) for Part Two of this week’s edition of The Cycle!
In this episode, Worm and Maher run through the best waiver wire pickups, highlight the top pitcher streaming options for next week, and make selections in their two-start pitcher competition!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Waiver Wire Central - 0:01:13
Otto Lopez - 0:01:21
Trevor Story - 0:03:25
FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:05:19
Dean Kremer - 0:05:42
Mike Soroka - 0:09:54
Deep League Targets - 0:11:31
SP Streamers - 0:14:05
Monday: Noah Cameron - 0:14:26
Tuesday: Jose Soriano or Eury Perez - 0:15:48
Wednesday: Eric Lauer or Lucas Giolito - 0:16:37
Thursday: Mike Soroka - 0:17:56
Friday: Max Scherzer, Gavin Williams, or Chase Burns - 0:19:27
Saturday: Stay Away - 0:22:18
Sunday: Eury Perez or Noah Cameron - 0:23:44
Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 0:24:52
Outro - 0:29:41
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| 0:16.6 | Are you so hard on yourself? |
| 0:18.0 | That's the way I was raised. |
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| 0:54.5 | Hello, everybody. Welcome into the cycle part two, the final part of the week. I know we usually do three parts, but this week we're keeping it a little shorter to be nice to our production and editing team ahead of the 4th of July holiday. So we're going to kind of loop our second and third segments together. We're going do a couple of just very quick waivers you know recommendations just to say that we hit on them |
| 0:58.7 | and then we'll dive into our usual part three episode of pitching streamers and our two start |
| 1:02.5 | pitcher competition mayor how are you feeling here at the end of the first half of the regular season |
| 1:07.6 | it feels like it went pretty quickly it does feel like it went pretty quickly i'm feeling pretty good. As we mentioned in several shows, I'm in a bunch of |
| 1:14.8 | leagues, and the results are all over the place. And I'm really hoping in a couple of those leagues |
| 1:19.7 | to get out of the basement and a couple more to stay near the top. And for the others to |
| 1:26.8 | fight my way out of the middle. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm hoping you fall further back in one of those leagues so that you will be open to trading |
| 1:33.1 | me of Mani Machado because I need a third basement even more than I did when I first brought |
| 1:37.6 | this up to you because Josh Young, who was my first third baseman, is now sent down to the |
| 1:42.6 | minor. So it's pretty disastrous at that position. |
| 1:45.7 | And my team is really good besides that. |
| 1:47.7 | But that is really tracking me down. |
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