Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of The Cycle, the Fantasy Pro's Fantasy

Baseball podcast. I am your host, Mike Mayer. I am not Ryan Wormley. He is not here with us today.

He just absolutely refuses to host the show with me. I just recently saw him in Vegas,

and he said, I'm having shoulder surgery next week, do the show without me. And I will just say,

I had the same surgery as Worm did, and I'm here, and he is not. So you can say maybe the fact that

my surgery was seven weeks ago and his was on Monday as to why I'm

here and he's not, but I feel like that's irrelevant. I would still be here regardless, but he's not

here. And I'm going to talk about the 2025 fantasy baseball draft strategies and targets that you need

to know. And I'm joined today by Kelly Kirby, an upgrade over worm. Fun fact, Kelly's

nickname in high school was actually the upgrade, so we can talk about that as well. Kelly,

how are you doing today? I'm doing pretty well. I think some players rehab a little bit faster than

other players, but I do think we should cut them a little slack for it being four days ago,

for the most part. But yeah, I know I am doing pretty great. I am looking at all the players,

looking at all the strategies, trying to figure out what I want to do for some of the bigger drafts.

And for the most part, it just makes my brain spin. So it'll be great. Well, I don't know how

much slack we can actually cut him for having surgery on Monday

because he had surgery on Monday.

He's not here.

You, by the looks of your backdrop, actually passed away recently and are doing this show

from heaven.

Yes.

Because that is a blindingly white backdrop.

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