Author Archive: Paul Sporer

8/10/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Carlos Gomez DFA’d (3:40)
• Steven Wright won’t start Thursday (23:40)
• Yasmani Grandal is dominating (33:10)

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• Are They 2017 Top 15 Hitters?
  • Wil Myers (43:30)
  • Daniel Murphy (52:00)
  • Kris Bryant (56:00)
  • Corey Seager (1:02:30)
  • Ian Desmond (1:06:30)
  • Starling Marte (1:08:00)

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Corinne Landrey just wrote about Tyler Anderson last week, outlining some loose comparisons between he and Clayton Kershaw. I commend you to read that, but also this. By the way, she doesn’t really think he’s Kershaw, just wanted to point out some interesting similarities. I’m always fascinated when a pitcher finds success at Coors Field so I wanted to see how he was doing it.

He only has 11 major league starts, but eight of them have already been at home. Small sample size caveats are in full effect, of course. The first I noticed about Anderson is that he seems to have different paths to success for home and road. He doesn’t necessarily change how he pitches batters home and road, but the resultant statistical profiles are interesting. He has taken these paths to virtually the same ERA in (3.04) and outside of Coors (3.06).

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In Coors, Anderson leans on his fastball-changeup combo using them a combined 74% of the time. His fastball comes in around 90-92, about average for a lefty, but his 81 MPH changeup helps the heater play up a bit while also being really good, too. He throws it to righties and lefties alike. Righties get it 33% of the time, but lefties get a steady diet as well at 26%.

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8/8/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Taijuan Walker demoted
• Junior Guerra hurt
• Daniel Norris recalled
• Kevin Pillar DL; Melvin Upton in
• Travis Jankowski’s speediness

Strategy Section

• Interesting SS leader on Player Rater
• Top 10 Look
  • Whoops, forgot to get to Eduardo Nunez
  • He was the #4 guy we referenced but never discussed
• Blind Comps
• J.J. Hardy & Brad Miller raking
• Any off the radar SS you like rest of way outside of these?

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8/5/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Aaron Sanchez staying in! (4:20)
• Jon Lester sputtering (11:50)
• Braden Shipley any good? (18:40)
• Felix Hernandez 5.60 since return (24:20)
• Drew Pomeranz assess in Boston (31:30)
• J.A. Happ how good is he? (50:30)
• David Dahl doing what Bregman was supposed to do (56:30)
• Chris Davis the worst of C/Khris Davises… Davii? (1:01:30)
• Jose De Leon called up! (1:13:50)

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Chat begins around 2 PM Central!

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8/3/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Aaron Nola to DL
• Lance McCullers to DL
• Joe Musgrove!
• Danny Salazar to DL
• Julio Teheran to DL
• Gary Sanchez up
• Orlando Arcia up
• Andrew Benintendi up
• Max Kepler ftw
• Ken Giles or Edwin Diaz
• A.J. Ramos 3 ER on 7/25, 3 Hits on 7/30, & 3 more ER today
• Fernando Rodney looming?
• Jabari Blash

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8/2/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Jay Bruce
• Dodgers-A’s
• Jonathan Lucroy, Jeremy Jeffress, Will Smith
• The Rays
• The Giants
• The Yankees rebuild

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7/31/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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• CLE – Andrew Miller/Cody Allen
• WAS – Mark Melancon
• PIT – Tony Watson
• KC – Wade Davis DL’d/Kelvin Herrera back in
• NYY – Dellin Betances
• ARI – Jake Barrett
• ATL – Jim Johnson likely to be traded

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7/29/16

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

• Andrew Cashner deal
• Eduardo Nunez deal
• Andrew Miller for Lucas Giolito rumors
• What’s a Chris Sale-to-Texas deal look like?

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• Dylan Bundy
• Sean Manaea

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If you’re a sucker like me, you constantly pin your hopes on the latest Rockies phenom hoping that he will finally be the one to tame the beast that is Coors Field. After all, there are only 29 other teams full of pitchers playing in exponentially more friendly ballparks, so why not intently focus on the toughest pitching environment we’ve ever seen in the game and hope to find the diamond in that rough?! (Cool life, Paul.)

The latest Great Coors Hope is Jon Gray.

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