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Paul Sporer & Jeff Zimmerman Regular Season Finale Chat – October 5th, 2022

Thanks for coming out this season! There will be playoff chats on the front page so look out for those throughout the month.

I (Paul) will also have offseason chats pretty consistently, but not necessarily every week. I will mention on Twitter when I know I’m going to miss one.

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This Season’s Final Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome, everyone.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the Tout Wars bids with one manager showing up to drop the hammer on the rest of us.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Two notes.

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: First this Wednesday, at least Paul and I will be hosting a chat during the last set of games if you want to join us.

7:34
Jeff Zimmerman: Second, I will not be hosting any more Sunday night chats until the first FAAB run of the 2023 season. I’m not sure of my new time slot.

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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – September 28th, 2022

Transcript is available!

1:01

Paul Sporer: Hey y’all! Just a week left in the regular season, can you believe it?!

1:01

Shifty manfred man: Hey Paul,

1:01

Paul Sporer: Hola!

1:02

MHII: How high are we taking Michael Harris next year? 2nd round?

1:04

Paul Sporer: He’s now a HR away from 20/20 and has only played 108 games! That said a .370 BABIP and 26% HR/FB rate are helping a lot and I worry that there won’t be any real regression assumed for him and he’ll go 2nd-3rd round pretty consistently. I love the talent and I’m a sucker power-speed, but I’ll probably fade the sky-high price for 2023

1:04

John: Pulled down a H2H Cats title this week.  Looking to next year, who is most likely to be real for 2023 – Brandon Drury, Jose Miranda (late May on) or Justin Steele?

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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:41
Eric: Any SPs you think might lose starts once their team clinches?

7:42
Jeff Zimmerman: It’s tough to tell at this point

7:43
Jeff Zimmerman: The teams that have clinch have the off days to set up their rotations so no breaks. I think it will more likely be the wild card teams who have clinched and want to make sure their aces go from the start

7:43
JACK: Garcia in Houston will lose starts

7:44
Jeff Zimmerman: And thanks for waiting through the delay. My computer just locked up.

7:45
Jeff Zimmerman:

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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – September 21st, 2022

Transcript is available!

1:12

Paul Sporer: Hello everyone! Let’s talk some baseball!!

1:14

Davey Ping Pong: How would you order these guys in a Dynasty 12 Team Head to Head league: Adley Rutschman, Corbin Carroll, Gunnar Henderson, Josh Jung?

1:18

Paul Sporer: I think I’d go just as you’ve laid them out here! Adley is definitely my #1 and while Jung is last, it’s not because I don’t like him… I’m a huge fan!

1:18

Still not ready for fantasy football: Keep Megill over Stroman in a dynasty league?

1:21

Paul Sporer: Hmmm, I think I would, yes. Stro has had a good season, but he’s living on a wire and could easily be a low-to-mid 4.00s ERA guy without much skill degradation. Megill might be that, too, but at least it’ll come w/Ks and he does have major upside

1:22

Bobby: Would you keep Jose Siri at $10 in a 16 team dynasty (40 man roster/$400 cap)?

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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Sorry about missing last week.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the Tout Wars winning bids for the two 15-team mixed leagues.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:32
Guest: You sure Roansy has two starts? Razzball thinks so, but Yahoo! doesn’t. Im fighting for first in both innings and saves, and either starting him or Fairbanks depending on how I project his innings. Yikes.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: It looks like just one start according to Rotowire

7:33
Down to the (Waiver) Wire!: Hey! Thanks for still coming out for these. They’ve been very helpful.

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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:30
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the bids from the two 15-team mixed Tout Wars leagues. As you will notice, one owner woke up and spent a ton of money.

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman:

7:32
Bruce in 2023: Which call up are you most confident in the ros : Spencer Steer, Triston Casas, or if Jung gets the call ?

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Jung

7:32
Rickey!: Andres Munoz or the returning Presley this week? And who would you sit between Morel, Luis Urias, Voit, or Gorman (whos facing all righties)?

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – August 31st, 2022

Transcript is available below!

1:05

Paul Sporer: Good afternoon, everyone! Thanks for coming out, let’s talk some baseball!!

1:07

ScottTINSTAAPP: Trying to join your Main Event league winners club this year and we’re almost there! Would not have believed that we’d be top 15 in the overall while starting Albert Pujols but here we are! Albert has been legit awesome, it’s sweet

1:08

Paul Sporer: Let’s goooo!!! My September sweat was the single greatest and most stressful month of fantasy baseball I ever played! I’m in the hunt for a cash this year, but 1st is a looongshot with Scott “Stryker” Jenstad running our league. Bring it home, Scott!

1:08

T: If ROTY was an ML-wide award, who do you think would win?

1:09

Paul Sporer: Not a definitive winner right. J-Rod, Adley, and the 2 Braves – Strider/Harris all would have amazing cases. I’d vote J-Rod personally

1:09

Tim: I am not great at managing Ohtani on my cbs team. Hard to read the app and figure out where to play him (DH/SP). What level of player would you expect in a trade for Ohtani in a weekly league? (Limit of 5 keepers.)

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Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat

7:31
Jeff Zimmerman: Welcome everyone. It seems like a slow week.

7:32
Jeff Zimmerman: Here are the bids in the two 15-team Tout Wars leagues.

7:32
Mk3cb: Entering a 2-week semi final and need to stream hitters – should I drop hader and Luis Garcia ? Have them both

7:33
Jeff Zimmerman: If you don’t need Saves in the future, Hader is a fine drop.

7:33
Andrew: Nick Gordon a drop in 15-team Roto?

7:34
Jeff Zimmerman: I’m possibly adding him in some leagues. As always, it depends on the replacement

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Paul Sporer’s Weekly Baseball Chat – August 24th, 2022

Transcript is available!

1:01

Paul Sporer: Hello and welcome everyone! This will now be an hourlong breakdown of Oneil Cruz’s 122.4 mph batted ball! joy

1:03

Ag: What’s the deal with Alejandro Kirk lately? Avg still been there but production way down since June. Pull % down, maybe the culprit?

1:04

Paul Sporer: Could definitely see it being the pull rate. Feels mostly like standard regression as he was out of his gourd in May/June. Not too worried!

1:04

Patrick Ryan: 122.4 that’s fast huh?

1:04

Paul Sporer: Insane! Oneil Cruz is bananas!

1:04

HappyFunBall: You mean the single?

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