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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – February 26th, 2020

February 26, 2020

Chat transcript is below. Thanks for coming out!!

1:34	Paul Sporer: Good afternoon, everyone! Let’s talk some baseball!

1:34	The Champ: Any update on the Beat Paul Sporer league? You’re killing me

1:35	Paul Sporer: I’m picking a date soon. Any days you CANNOT do?

1:35	Jake deGrom: Heard you said Kershaw was in the grandpa tier on the pod. Since I’m only a few months younger, am I hitting grandpa tier this year too?

1:37	Paul Sporer: Mostly tongue in cheek re: grandpa, but it’s more related to IP counts where Kershaw dwarfs deGrom by essentially double

1:37	Michael: How concerned are you about how the change from Grandal to Narvaez will affect Woodruff? How are you baking that into your rankings?

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 785 – Joe Pisapia’s Spring Planning

by Paul Sporer

February 25, 2020

02/25/20

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Justin Mason’s Top 125 Starting Pitchers (2/25 Update)

by Justin Mason

February 25, 2020

It is time for an update to my starting pitcher ranks for 2020. I will be discussing some of these with Paul Sporer and Nick Pollack on tomorrow’s Sleeper and the Bust Podcast, so definitely listen to that.

All ranks are based on 15-team standard leagues. ADP is from ADP and reflects Online Championship’s data since 1/1/2020. For more ranks of mine for 2020, you can click the links below: Read the rest of this entry »

Mining the News (2/25/20)

by Jeff Zimmerman

February 25, 2020

A couple of items before digging into projection adjusting news.

1. I’ve started collecting spring training fastball velocities and will update them as I find the time.

The Spring Training fastball velocity tracker is live. I'll update it when and if I feel like it, but I can always use some help. If anyone sees a velocity available in a Tweet or article, just tag me and I'll eventually add it. Thanks for the help. -Jeffhttps://t.co/2LaJ5uCDGJ

— Jeff Zimmerman (@jeffwzimmerman) February 22, 2020

One name which immediately sticks out is Alex Wood with a 2 to 3 mph jump. Wood lives off his sinker (50%+ usage). While it’s not a huge swing-and-miss pitch, it does better at 93 mph and higher.

While healthy, he’s a must-own in all formats.
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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 784 – Starting Pitchers Pt. 2 (#31-45)

by Paul Sporer

February 24, 2020

02/24/20

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SPs Pt. 2 (31-45)

31-35 (2:55)

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 783 – Matt Thompson of ProspectsLive.com

by Justin Mason

February 24, 2020

02/23/20

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Justin Mason’s Top 125 Outfielders for 2020

by Justin Mason

February 23, 2020

Hello Draft Season!

Here are my top 125 outfielders for 2020. All ranks are based on 15-team standard leagues. ADP is from ADP and reflects Online Championship’s data since 1/1/2020. For more ranks of mine for 2020, you can click the links below: Read the rest of this entry »

Rosterable Catchers

by Jeff Zimmerman

February 22, 2020

Note: As noted in the comments, I missed Sean Murphy in the initial evaluation. He has now been added and hopefully, all the counts have been updated.

Every year around this time, I go through the catcher pool to see who I can tolerate. Either I’m getting soft in my advanced age or the catcher pool has improved since last season. I didn’t get nauseous during the process. I’ll myself through the ownable options for different league types.

When targetting catchers, I’d like them to do one of two things.

Provide 15 to 20 home runs power.
Not tank my batting average.

The first criteria is easier to find with 11 catchers projected for 15 or more homers. Seventeen catchers are projected between 10 and 14. On average in NFBC Main Event leagues last season, owners needed 363 homers to finish third or 30 HR per the 12 non-catchers. If an owner can get 36 homers from his catchers, the amount needed by the other hitters drops to 27.
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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 782 – Sarah Langs from MLB.com

by Paul Sporer

February 21, 2020

02/21/20

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Sarah Langs Interview

Baseball Savant (3:40)
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Toughest Top 10 list (9:00)
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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 781 – Starting Pitchers Pt. 1

by Paul Sporer

February 20, 2020

02/20/20

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live. Support the show by subscribing to Fangraphs! With a standard $20 membership, you help maintain and improve our database of stats and graphs as well as our staff of 8 full-time employees and over 50 contributors. The premium ad-free membership at $50 year supports site growth and also includes faster load speeds and better site performance. You can also support monthly for just $3.

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