The Cycle: Waiver Wire Central, Pitching Streamers, and Two-Start Pitcher Competition (Ep. 1113)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Join Mike Maher (@mikeMaher) and Kelly Kirby (@thewonkypenguin) for Part Two of this week’s edition of The Cycle!
In this episode, Maher and Kelly go through the best pick-ups that you can make this weekend off the waiver wire, highlight pitching streamers for each day next week, and make picks in their two-start pitcher competition!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Waiver Wire Central - 0:00:51
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. - 0:01:05
Daulton Varsho - 0:02:04
Luke Keaschall - 0:03:00
Cade Horton - 0:05:29
Will Warren - 0:07:48
Deep League Targets - 0:08:59
FantasyPros Lineup Assistant - 0:10:28
Pitching Streamers - 0:10:47
Monday: Chris Paddack - 0:11:23
Tuesday: Nestor Cortes - 0:11:49
Wednesday: Cam Schlittler - 0:12:28
Thursday: Avoid - 0:12:52
Friday: Joey Cantillo - 0:13:15
Saturday: Brayan Bello - 0:13:28
Sunday: Anthony DeSclafani - 0:13:58
Two-Start Pitcher Competition - 0:15:59
Outro - 0:22:09
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | And here's Heather with the weather. |
| 0:06.2 | Well, it's beautiful out there, sunny and 75, almost a little chilly in the shade. |
| 0:11.6 | Now, let's get a read on the inside of your car. |
| 0:15.0 | It is hot. |
| 0:16.3 | You've only been parked a short time, and it's already 99 degrees in there. |
| 0:21.8 | Let's not leave children in the back seat while running errands. It only takes a few minutes for their body temperatures |
| 0:26.2 | to rise and that could be fatal. Cars get hot, fast, and can be deadly. Never leave a child |
| 0:32.1 | in a car. A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome back into another episode of The Cycle. |
| 0:46.3 | Hopefully you just checked out our first video, |
| 0:47.0 | rounding the bases, |
| 0:50.3 | where we talked all about Ryan Wormley's corrupt league that he invited me to, |
| 0:51.6 | and we determined that it is very corrupt, |
| 0:53.8 | and I should quit |
| 0:54.3 | it this offseason. |
| 0:56.2 | Maybe, maybe we discussed other things. |
| 0:58.8 | But we also talked about whether or not some certain players are real or not real, whether |
| 1:03.2 | some players are broken and we did a bullpen check-in. |
| 1:06.6 | And on this video, we're going to talk about waivers to pick up in your leagues and then also pitchers that you should be streaming for the upcoming week. Kelly, does that sound good to you? Anything sounds better than listening to you in Worm Talk. So, like, argue with each other. Well, as a lucky surprise, here's Worm. We're bringing them back in. Exactly. Worm, how are you doing? Just kidding. just kidding he's not here um no okay so let's dive in first with |
| 1:31.8 | waiver central and up first i'll let you go with your hitter i almost said the name by |
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