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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 550 – Justin Returns!

5/15/18

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 549 – The PhillyCast w/Nick Pollack

5/13/18

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – May 11th, 2018

Transcript is live!

12:33

Paul Sporer: It’s time to talk some baseball!! Let’s rollll!!

12:34

padres suck: My Bogaerts and Price for his Carrasco?

12:34

Paul Sporer: Hmm, I don’t feel like Price should have to be in. The 1-for-1 seems good enough, but if you’re done with Price and need an ace, I can understand it

12:35

Rob: Paul help! I went bat heavy early in my 12 team 5×5 head to head categories league and my pitching is killing me! Sitting near the bottom currently. Is arenado for Scherzer crazy? Doable? Too much? Too little? Thanks!

12:35

Paul Sporer: Very doable. I’d offer it up

12:35

Chippy: Would you move Corbin for JDMart in points dynasty? Worried about Corbin’s velo decline

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 548 – “I’ve Always Got My Churve”

5/10/18

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 547 – The Struggle Bus Team

5/9/18

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The All-Struggle Bus Team

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Sporer Report Issue #6 – Romero’s Rising

If you scooped Fernando Romero off your waiver wire on Sunday night, you were paid immediate dividends as the 23-year old righty threw six scoreless innings in St. Louis on Monday night, allowing just three hits and three walks while striking out nine. He now has 11.7 scoreless innings to open his MLB career and has many wondering if he can be a game-changing rookie for both the Twins and your fantasy team. He has consistently been a Top 10 entrant in Twins prospect lists for the last couple years including 7th by Eric last year and will place top five for this year’s list, which is coming soon. Let’s take a closer look at the electric righty.

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 546 – The YuCast Fireside Chat

5/6/18

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  • Paul and Nick deep dive on Yu Darvish and his 6.05 ERA on the season.

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May Starting Pitcher Rankings Update

Wow, I can’t believe we’re already a month into the season! A quick refresher on how I put these together. This is a narrower focus than just “rest of season” as I’ll be updating these every month. Pitching is just too volatile to have confidence in a single ranking set for more than 4-6 weeks at a time. The tiers are more important than the numerical ranking as they’ll guide the start/sit decisions more accurately.

I want to be clear that the Must-Starts aren’t automatically the best pitchers, but rather the guys that you can’t sit with any confidence. Do I really think that (spoiler alert!) Sean Manaea is the 27th-best starter for the rest of the season? I have hard time saying that, but there is no circumstance where I’d bench him right now.

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – May 4th, 2018

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12:39

Paul Sporer: Helloooo!!! We’ll get started soon.

12:39

DB: Who do you like as a better minors stash in redrafts…Alex Reyes or Michael Kopech?

12:39

Paul Sporer: Kopech. Love Reyes talent, but too much of a wildcard off of TJ

12:39

Cubies Cub: Buy or Sell Nick Kingham ROY

12:40

Paul Sporer: I mean I’ll sell ROY, but I’ll buy legitimacy

12:40

paolo: no real reason to worry about rizzo, right?

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Sporer Report Issue #5 – Cervelli’s Power Surge

The first month of the season is in the books! It was an exciting month with some incredible breakouts like Didi Gregorius being baseball’s best player while Mike Trout and Aaron Judge picked up right where their 2017 seasons left off. However, you might’ve missed some of the good-but-unheralded performances that are still worthy of attention including a veteran catcher raking, an offseason bargain smacking the ball, and a former prospect on the rise.

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