The Cycle: The 2025 Fantasy Baseball All-Regression, Boom-or-Bust & "My Guys" Teams | Busts, Breakouts & Must-Draft Players (Ep. 939)
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Wormeli and Mike Maher dive deep into every angle of fantasy baseball prep in this episode of The Cycle. First, they highlight which players they won't overpay for in their All-Regression teams. Next, they share which names carry the widest gulfs between their ceiling and floor with their All-Boom-or-Bust teams. Lastly, the guys unveil their personal favorite draft targets in their All-My Guys teams -- from Trea Turner to Brandon Woodruff -- so you can approach the season with confidence and crush your league.
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00:00
FantasyPros Fantasy Fest - 0:03:21
Worm's All-Regression Team, Tyler Fitzgerald & Shota Imanaga - 0:04:51
Maher's All-Regression Team, Anthony Santander, & Brice Turang - 0:14:20
Microsoft AI - 0:19:08
Maher's All-Boom-or-Bust Team: Cal Raleigh, Triston Casas, Jacob deGrom - 0:19:44
Worm's All-Boom-or-Bust Team: Chris Sale, Ezequiel Tovar, Zack Gelof - 0:29:49
Mock in Minutes With Our Draft Simulator - 0:39:56
Worm's All-'My Guys' Team: Jordan Westburg, Alex Bregman, Roki Sasaki - 0:40:35
Maher's All-'My Guys' Team: Freddie Freeman, Trea Turner, Brandon Woodruff - 0:50:25
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome into the cycle. |
| 0:07.8 | I am Ryan warmly joined today, as always, by Mike. |
| 0:11.2 | Mayor, Mayor, how are you doing? |
| 0:13.9 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:14.7 | How are you doing recovering from your shoulder surgery? |
| 0:18.1 | Since we talked about it last week, we can just run it right back. |
| 0:20.5 | Maybe we'll just start every show this year about talking about our shoulders. |
| 0:23.0 | Shoulder update. Yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | You know, some good days, some bad. I'm getting better at sleeping. I've discovered, and this is a |
| 0:28.7 | tip for anybody who ever has some sort of procedure where you have to sleep in a recline position |
| 0:32.9 | for a long time, which I have to do for six weeks. And as a side sleeper, that's very difficult. |
| 0:38.2 | Rather than in my recline position sleeping on a pillow, I've started sleeping on no pillow, |
| 0:44.5 | but with a pillow like kind of right on either side of the head. |
| 0:47.7 | So I can almost kind of mimic that like side sleep angle with the face into the pillow, |
| 0:53.0 | but without like totally ruining your |
| 0:55.4 | neck because it's like you're a little below the pillow. It's worked very well, actually. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm surprised and very, you know, pleasantly you're happy with that, the results of that |
| 1:06.3 | experiment. Everything else is still terrible. You know, physical therapy is painful and still the |
| 1:11.8 | early stages. I'm only about two weeks, a little over two weeks past the surgery. So I've still got |
| 1:15.7 | a long road ahead. You are like pretty permanently out of the sling at this point for your |
| 1:20.9 | surgery, right? Yeah. I put, I've been out of the sling for like a little while. When we had our |
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