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Paul Sporer Weekly Baseball Chat – May 6th, 2020

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May 6, 2020

Transcript is available below!

1:04

Paul Sporer: Good afternoon, everyone! It’s time to chat!!!
1:06

Joe: What current big leaguer would be best suited to playing in Korea?
1:08

Paul Sporer: Korea is a bit more power-focused than Japan while both leagues strike out a TON less than MLB, so probably the power/contact studs would go there and just OWN the league: Bellinger, Bregman, Rendon, and Arenado — they leap to mind as they all had insane pop and solid K rates last year
1:08

Nick: Are any websites running fantasy KBO?  Are you playing?
1:08

Paul Sporer: I’m not sure if any are running season long leagues, I played some DraftKings though
1:09

Paul Sporer: Most of y’all probably already know, but if you’re going to follow the KBO, Dan Kurtz’s site & twitter are a must: https://mykbostats.com/ | https://twitter.com/MyKBO

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 808 – KBO Opening Day & MLB News

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May 5, 2020

05/05/20

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS/INJURIES/RUMORS

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 807 – Former MLB Pitchers in the KBO

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May 4, 2020

05/04/20

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FORMER MLB PITCHERS IN THE KBO

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Potential National League DHs

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May 1, 2020

With all the potential setups we’re seeing for 2020 baseball, it seems like most would benefit from having a designated hitter included for the National League. If that does come to fruition, a group of hitters will see value upticks just by virtue of getting extra playing time, but they will also benefit from not having to play defense. Let’s go west to east with our NL DH candidates for each team:

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS

Kevin Cron, Jake Lamb | Cron and Lamb are a righty-lefty combo that could straight up platoon as Arizona’s DH in this scenario. Cron didn’t do much in a tiny sample last year, but he did pop 6 HR and boast a .310 ISO in the 78 PA of work. Lamb is now three years removed from his 30 HR/105 RBI season, but I still think the 29-year old has big power when healthy (he just hasn’t been close to healthy since ’17). Seth Beer is the prototypical DH, but he’s not on the 40-man so I went with Cron & Lamb instead.

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – April 29th, 2020

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April 29, 2020

Paul’s weekly chat starts now!

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 806 – Podopolooza (Sporer, Thorburn, Pollack, Simione, & Swan)

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April 29, 2020

04/28/20

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PODOPOLOOZA APPEARANCE

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 805 – Out of Nowhere Breakouts – NL Edition

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April 24, 2020

04/21/20

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MAIN TOPIC

  • Atlanta
  • Miami
  • New York
  • Washington
  • Philadelphia

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 804 – Seasons that Should’ve Won an MVP or CY

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April 21, 2020

04/21/20

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MVP & CY-WORTHY SEASONS DRAFT

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Texas Red Bulls: Fighting for the 2023 Playoffs

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April 17, 2020

In our last update, I reviewed the 2022 playoffs and discussed our World Series win! As we started the 2023 season, I identified starting pitching as the premium need and put up a poll of three starters for us to choose from: 2019 Jack Flaherty, 1987 Bret Saberhagen, and 2007 Ian Snell. I wasn’t terribly surprised by the fact that Flaherty steamrolled with 45% of the vote, but I made an executive decision to keep both him and the last place finisher of the poll, Snell. He only got 20% of the vote, but he was just so cheap at 650 Perfect Points that I felt he was worth holding.

WHERE WE STAND

As of this writing, it’s August 15th, 2023 and our Red Bulls are 65-54, sitting 4.5 games back of the Boston Kkroncs (not a typo) and holding the second Wild Card. It’s been an up and down season. We started 13-16 in April (with 2 games in March) and then ran up an 18-9 record in May, but we’re just 32-29 since with a .560 win percentage in June, .458 in July, and .643 thus far in August (9-5).

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 803 – Out of Nowhere Breakouts – AL Edition

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April 16, 2020

04/16/20

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MAIN TOPIC

  • American League Breakouts Out of Nowhere (drafted somewhere around 300 or later)
    • Baltimore (9:00)
    • Boston (15:25)
    • New York (20:00)
    • Tampa Bay (25:35)
    • Toronto (30:30)
    • Cleveland (38:20)
    • Chicago (41:37)
    • Detroit (43:43)
    • Kansas City (47:25)
    • Minnesota (52:52)
    • Houston (57:02)
    • Los Angeles (58:50)
    • Oakland (1:02:16)
    • Seattle (1:05:50)
    • Texas (1:10:54)

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