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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – April 26th, 2023

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April 26, 2023

Transcript is live, thanks for coming!!

1:04

Paul Sporer: Hello everyone, thanks for coming out!
1:04

Dave: I think Bryson Stott was one of your 2B breakouts in the pre-season and so far he’s put up numbers.  But… they seem fueled by an unsupportable BABIP.  How do you feel about him going forward?
1:09

Paul Sporer: The BABIP and AVG will definitely come down, but he’s delivering fantasy juice, too, w/the 2 HR & 3 SB and I still think he’ll be a strong double-double (10+ HR/SB) with a solid AVG
1:09

Ben: Any worries on Bradish in season ong
1:10

Paul Sporer: Not really, got merked by a good team when he lost his command
1:12

Sir Chatsworth: Mr. Sporer, I am in the unfortunate circumstance of needing to drop an SP due to a roster crunch. Shall it be Mason Miller of the Oakland A’s, or Kodai Senga of the New York Mets?

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 26th

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April 26, 2023
Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. The opponent wOBA will remain blank for a while until we get some data and because there is so much lineup turnover year-to-year, I’m not going to include last year’s mark. I’ll start including wOBA data on April 17th.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

Trying something new by splitting up the data a bit with the recos & comments in one chart and the recos and stats in another. Let me know if that’s preferable to putting it all in one. I decided this after writing it, but for the future this could give me a bit more space for deeper comments, too. At any rate, I’m open to any feedback even if it’s constructive criticism!

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 25th

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April 25, 2023
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. The opponent wOBA will remain blank for a while until we get some data and because there is so much lineup turnover year-to-year, I’m not going to include last year’s mark. I’ll start including wOBA data on April 17th.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

Trying something new by splitting up the data a bit with the recos & comments in one chart and the recos and stats in another. Let me know if that’s preferable to putting it all in one. I decided this after writing it, but for the future this could give me a bit more space for deeper comments, too. At any rate, I’m open to any feedback even if it’s constructive criticism!

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1167 – Call-Up News and Key Week 5 Pickups

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April 24, 2023

4/24/23

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 24th

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April 24, 2023
Matt Blewett-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. The opponent wOBA will remain blank for a while until we get some data and because there is so much lineup turnover year-to-year, I’m not going to include last year’s mark. I’ll start including wOBA data on April 17th.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

Trying something new by splitting up the data a bit with the recos & comments in one chart and the recos and stats in another. Let me know if that’s preferable to putting it all in one. I decided this after writing it, but for the future this could give me a bit more space for deeper comments, too. At any rate, I’m open to any feedback even if it’s constructive criticism!

Pardon my Friday miss, btw. I was gone on a quick weekend trip that included some sizable flight delays due to inclement weather and they ate up the one window I had to get the piece down from the road. I started all the guys who dominated and sat all the dudes who got smoked. Source: just trust me, bro!

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1165 – 10 Pitching Prospects to Know

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April 20, 2023

4/20/23

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 20th

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April 20, 2023
Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. The opponent wOBA will remain blank for a while until we get some data and because there is so much lineup turnover year-to-year, I’m not going to include last year’s mark. I’ll start including wOBA data on April 17th.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – April 19th, 2023

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April 19, 2023

Transcript is available!

1:07

Paul Sporer: Hello everyone, thanks for coming out!
1:07

Oil Can Baggins: How are we feeling about Brendan Donovan 3 weeks into the season?  Underwhelmed, Medium Whelmed, Overwhelmed?
1:09

Paul Sporer: Feel as good as I did when I drafted him. 2 HR/2 SB.. nicked up right now so don’t love that, but performance-wise, totally fine!
1:12

Kyle Freeland: Apologize for believing in me!
1:12

Paul Sporer: LOLOLOLOL… my friend Gregg talked me out of even putting him in my list of bids. Justin didn’t really sell the reasons to go against, but he was right!
1:12

Chip: I’m an early buyer of Johan Oviedo. Would you start him at Colorado? Terrible team, but also a terrible stadium for pitchers.

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 19th

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April 19, 2023
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

New formatting allows me to automate things a bit more with the data input. Does it still look OK?

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Starting Pitcher Chart – April 18th

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April 17, 2023
Logan Gilbert has been excellent early on. Photo Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports

In past seasons I’ve done this Daily SP Chart down the stretch and invariably there are comments asking why I don’t do it all season. I’ve never really had a great answer for that so now I’m doing it!

Once the season gets going, the chart will include their performance over the last five starts (for the first few weeks, it’ll be their 2023 stats), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto.

Game 1 of the PHI/CWS doubleheader wasn’t listed by accident, but Wheeler & Lynn are easy starts for me. 

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