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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 537 – Oh-Oh-Oh Ohtani… (Auto Parts)

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April 5, 2018

4/5/18

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Top 100 Minor League Names by Cespedes BBQ

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Sporer Report Issue #2

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April 4, 2018

Why wait for another edition of the Sporer Report? Y’all seemed to enjoy it and even commented some names you’d like to see covered so I’ve included a couple of those. Sorry about the GIFs in yesterday’s being wonky for some. I didn’t realize that host was ad-laden. Today’s won’t be so cumbersome.

Not included: Jakob Junis

The reason is two-fold. One is that I already dropped some thoughts on him just before the season started and two is that Jeff Sullivan covered him in detail today. I’m obviously pleased with the start he had on Tuesday and still considering him one to watch and at least stream in most formats.

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Sporer Report Issue #1

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April 3, 2018

I’ve been trying to find a way to collect a bunch of my thoughts that aren’t quite worth their own article, but often extend beyond a tweet dating back to last year. So this will be a work in progress and I’m open to feedback on what y’all like and don’t as I try out different things here. It’s always going to be more pitching-focused, but it won’t be limited to just the mound. If you’ve followed my writing for a certain amount of time, you’ve no doubt seen me use the “Sporer Report” title for other columns.

It’s not that I think it’s some great name or anything (I’m not that vain); it’s just a general name that doesn’t limit the column’s contents. I originally wanted to call it the “The Week That Was”, but when it inevitably becomes super popular and people start tweeting about it so often that it gets condensed into #TWTW, I’m worried it’ll be lumped in with Hawk Harrelson’s “The Will to Win” nonsense.

Without further ado…

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 536 – Eaton Some Small Samples

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April 2, 2018

4/2/18

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – March 30th, 2018

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March 30, 2018

Baseball is back and I couldn’t be happier!

2:14

Paul Sporer: Hello!! We finally have baseball!!!!!!!
2:14

Paul Sporer: OK, now onto the questions…
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Paul Sporer: BTW, include context with your questions or they might be useless (how many teams, format)
2:14

Hannah Hochevar: So why is it that Cleveland doesn’t make the playoffs?
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Paul Sporer: The bad fastballs of virtually their entire staff, a lame OF, and lack of depth
2:15

Tiger: Watching Zimmerman today. 8 Ks, 1 BB. Only two extra-base hits. The 4 ER aren’t pretty, but a new pitch (2 seamer). Any thoughts? Have any looks at him?

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Post-Hype & No-Hype Hitters to Know

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March 29, 2018

It’s Opening Day, the teams are drafted and excitement is bubbling over! You have to exhibit a measure of patience to have success in fantasy baseball, but the balance is difficult to strike between that patience and actively acquiring quality players off the free agent wire. The patience should be given primarily to the core of your roster, let’s say the top 15 picks or so, but after that you should identify at least a name or two on your roster that you’re ready to cut if you find someone on the wire.

Here is a look at 10 overlooked names who could become early season waiver gems:

Addison Russell | Cubs, SS

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 535 – Eno Place Like Home

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March 29, 2018

3/29/18

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Perusing the Fours and Fives

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March 27, 2018

After a relatively quiet start to Spring Training, injuries are starting to pile up. You may have already had a waiver run in your league, but even if not the first one will run this weekend and a lot of interesting arms have won fourth and fifth starter jobs. Plenty of them are already being drafted as potential contributors (Tyler Chatwood 204th in NFBC, Jordan Montgomery 213th, and Lucas Giolito 215th to name a few). I plucked a few who are intriguing to me and here are some thoughts about them:

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March Composite Rankings – Relief Pitcher

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March 23, 2018

It’s closing time!

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. The Bullpen Report team, plus Jeff and myself did these rankings. We can also be reached via Twitter:

There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.

Note – The first Bullpen Report will be out this weekend!

Key:

  • AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
  • Adj. AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
  • SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – March 23rd, 2018

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March 23, 2018
2:18

Paul Sporer: Good afternoon, everyone!! It’s MLB The Show release weekend and we’re less than a week from Opening Day, let’s goooo!!!!
2:18

Dylan: Drop David Dahl to grab Lew Brinson in 10-team mixed?  Sounding like Dahl is destined to being the year at AAA.
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Paul Sporer: Ya, I think you have to be super active in 10-team and not sit on guys
2:19

STT Fan: Kyle Hendricks or Danny Duffy?
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Paul Sporer: Hendricks – https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/march-composite-rankings-starting-pi…
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Joba: Bump up Arrieta based on yesterday’s velocity readings?

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