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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – August 14th, 2024

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August 14, 2024

Thanks for coming out!

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Paul Sporer: Hello everyone, thanks for coming out!
1:03

Zebulon 5: Zebby is one of the most fun names in baseball right now, yeah?
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Paul Sporer: Absolutely!! I love Zebulon! It’s not just a fun name, either, he did well in the minors and has a profile that can absolutely find success, especially with Joe Ryan’s injury clearing the playing time path. I’m on the Zebby Matthews train to see where this goes
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Paul Sporer: New SP rankings are live, btw, in case you missed ’em in the Chat post: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/2024-in-season-starting-pitcher-rankings…
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Paul!: Too early to forecast, but please do: Langford or Chourio ROS? Beyond? It seems like Langford will never be able to hit the fastball, while Jackson is making strides all around…
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Paul Sporer: Love both but firm lean to Chourio between the 2. He just has the more robust fantasy profile right now and I think he will in the future, too, especially if we don’t see Langford’s power come together.

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2024 In-Season Starting Pitcher Rankings – August

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August 13, 2024

OK, this will probably be the last full ranking of the regular season because once we flip the calendar to September, it’s allll about what can you do for me right now. By then we can’t worry about tomorrow, everything is immediate focus only and playing hard to our standings.

I decided to rank ReyLo before he returns from injury because he’s making a rehab start tonight and expected back very soon, but if he doesn’t return, I still have Holmes ranked, too.

(Note: There won’t be a Wednesday SP Chart, but these rankings should definitely help your decisions for the day and I have my chat at 1 pm Central where you can ask any questions about the rankings!)

The $ is the earned auction value so far this year. Those with – in their Change column means they weren’t ranked last month due to injury or simply not being in the MLB rotation. ADP is the spring average draft position.

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Starting Pitcher Chart – August 13th, 2024

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August 13, 2024
David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports

Working on the new rankings, they’ll be out later today! Sorry for the late board, but here it is:
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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1330 – Surging Bats Worthy of Attention

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August 12, 2024

8/12/24

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BUY OR FLY: SURGING STANDOUTS (L30 days PR)

  • 5th Jake Burger: We said “hold” in 12s+ on 6/5, since: .899 OPS, 18 HR, 32 RBIs (53/94 pace)
  • 7th Tyler Fitzgerald: .930 OPS, 3 HR, 5 SB since his big pickup period
  • 10th Xavier Edwards: My 2B breakout during pos. reviews, since: .361, 13 SB, 15 R (92/106)
  • 13th Lawrence Butler: OF pos. review day after 3 HRs, since: .325/4 HR & SB/17 R/13 RBI (31/131/100)

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Starting Pitcher Chart – August 12th, 2024

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August 12, 2024
Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports

 

2-Start Board for Wk of August 12th
RANK TYPE PITCHER MATCHUPS IP ERA WHIP K-BB Pitch+
1 1 Tarik Skubal SEA/NYY 136.1 2.57 0.95 25% 107
2 1 Chris Sale at SFG/at LAA 123 2.71 0.95 26% 102
3 1 George Kirby at DET/at PIT 136 3.04 1.00 21% 107
4 1 Sonny Gray at CIN/LAD 118.2 3.72 1.09 25% 106
5 1 Pablo López KCR/at TEX 124 4.65 1.14 22% 104
6 1 Shota Imanaga at CLE/TOR 116.1 3.09 1.09 21% 103
7 1 Blake Snell ATL/at OAK 56.2 4.29 1.13 21% 104
8 1 Freddy Peralta LAD/CLE 120.1 3.89 1.19 21% 101
9 2 Framber Valdez at TBR/CHW 116.1 3.56 1.25 15% 101
10 2 Taj Bradley HOU/ARI 86.1 2.71 1.01 22% 103
11 2 Clayton Kershaw at MIL/at STL 7.2 5.87 1.96 7% 98
12 3 Jake Irvin at BAL/at PHI 134 3.56 1.10 15% 103
13 3 Brady Singer at MIN/at CIN 125 2.88 1.16 15% 94
14 3 Paul Blackburn OAK/MIA 57 4.11 1.18 12% 101
15 4 Davis Daniel TOR/ATL 22 4.91 1.18 19% 102
16 4 Ben Lively 라이블리 CHC/at MIL 105.1 3.42 1.15 14% 95
17 4 Charlie Morton at SFG/at LAA 112 3.94 1.25 14% 97
18 4 Kutter Crawford TEX/at BAL 129 3.77 1.09 17% 108
19 4 Brayan Bello TEX/at BAL 107 5.13 1.44 14% 104
20 4 Bowden Francis at LAA/at CHC 44.1 5.68 1.44 11% 103
21 4 Trevor Rogers WSN/BOS 109.2 4.76 1.55 8% 98
22 4 Andrew Abbott STL/KCR 121.1 3.41 1.29 10% 96
23 5 Joe Musgrove PIT/at COL 49.1 5.66 1.48 14% 102
24 5 Taijuan Walker MIA/WSN 53 5.60 1.49 10% 94
25 5 Tyler Mahle at BOS/MIN #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A
26 5 Marco Gonzales at SDP/SEA 29 3.72 1.52 9% 94
27 5 José Ureña at BOS/MIN 80.1 3.70 1.27 8% 95
28 6 Bradley Blalock at ARI/SDP 1 0.00 1.00 -25% 69
29 6 Ky Bush NYY/at HOU #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

TYPE Key:
1 – Auto-Start | 2 – All Formats | 3 – Most Formats |
4 – Some Formats | 5 – YOLO | 6 – Hard Pass

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1329 – 2-Start Pitchers for Week 20

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August 9, 2024

8/9/24

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2-START FOR WEEK 20

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Starting Pitcher Chart – August 9th, 2024

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August 9, 2024
Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports

New rankings out next week!
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Starting Pitcher Chart – August 8th, 2024

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August 8, 2024

Holy crap, what a brutal board. There are some intriguing arms outside of the 3 x-ers but they almost all have a rough matchup.  I know the opponents Ortiz and Morton are facing haven’t been strong of late, but they still scare me enough to be leery with either of them. I was impressed that Ortiz stemmed the tide after a 5 ER first inning to still go 5.3 IP with 6 ER. Still a bad outing, but those extra innings are so key in blowups. Outside of Ortiz, that group of 1 x-ers are straight up WHIP killers and you have to start being very mindful of your ratios as we enter the home stretch.

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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – August 7th, 2024

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August 7, 2024

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Paul Sporer: Hello thank you for coming out!!
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Darren: What’s your take on the closer situations in KC and Arizona? Do you think anyone runs away with the job or will they be committees for the rest of the year?
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Paul Sporer: In fluid situations like that, someone can always grab hold of the job by catching fire. Just tough to know who it’ll be, of course. My bets are on Erceg and Puk.
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Fant’sy Feast: Is Will Smith a huge upgrade over Ben Rice in a 1C, 12-team H2H with OBP and Slugging instead of Avg? Maybe I am so used to waiting to draft catchers and then using non-catching Cs that I just don’t recognize the big boost?
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Paul Sporer: I know Will Smith has been sputtering pretty much since May with a .198/.292/.387 line, but it has still come with 12 HRs and 35 RBIs which are 29 and 86 full season paces. I see a .215 BABIP over this time  and have to think there is some bad luck in there. He is K’ing more than normal at 23% during this period (16% the last 2 yrs) and he is hitting more flyballs than normal which will also curb BABIP. Bottom line is that I’m staying the course w/Smith here. Rice is interesting, but not I can’t take him over Smith
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DatDudeJG: Is something wrong with Luis Castillo?  He used to be a must start all the time but he’s been so up and down this year.  Reminds me of him in his early years.  Thanks for the chat!

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Starting Pitcher Chart – August 7th, 2024

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August 6, 2024
Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports

I have my chat at 2pm ET on Wednesday if you have any questions. Pretty deep board today and as such, I’m probably staying away from the 1-x’s in most cases, but I realize options are tight in many leagues and all three have had runs of success this year.

Wednesday morning updates:

One of the downsides of posting is early is missing changes or in this case, some updated doubleheader information.

  • Cortes is moved to Wednesday while Luis Gil & Will Warren will start the DH v. LAA. Gil is an automatic and I miiiight give Warren a shot in deeper leagues if I’m chasing Wins.
  • Ben Lively and Eduardo Rodriguez were also rained out so they’ll be on the Wednesday slate joining Pfaadt & Carrasco. Lively was a 2-x reco while I want to wait and see on E-Rod.

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