Category: Podcast - The Sleeper and the Bust | RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball

PLAYER	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
Sanchez	OFF	Montero	Mize	Skubal	Skenes	Keller	Mlodzinski
Rushing	Quintana	Mahle	Roupp	Webb	Taillon	Rea	Imanaga
Jackson	Lugo	Bubic	Wacha	OFF	Crochet	Gray	Early
Peraza	Cease	Corbin	Lauer	OFF	Cameron	Ragans	Lugo
Antonacci	OFF	Kelly	Rodriguez	Soroka	Mikolas	Irvin	Griffin
Schneeman	Gordon	Arrighetti	Lambert	OFF	Scherzer	Gausman	Cease
Stowers	McGreevy	May	Leahy		Houser	Ray	Mahle

Spencer Arrighetti (33:30)
Keider Montero (37:56)

Starter’s Upcoming Schedule

SP	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	NOTES
Arrighetti		CLE						BAL/BOS next week
Montero		MIL					CIN?	JV may be back

Reliever Results Last Week

RP – LAST 7 DAYS	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	NOTES
Suarez	21 (W)	5 (H)			14 (SV)	Iglesias slept on shoulder wrong
Keller	15				21	Duran “mild” oblique
Uribe	20 (H)	12 (SV)		18 (W)	4 (SV)	It has begun
Kuhnel		24 (SV)			14
De Los Santos	5 (SV)	14 (SV)				Hader 60-Day IL
Hoffman	32 (BS)				26 (L)	Lots of Ks, but issues
Rogers	17	16 (BS,L)			9
Varland	19 (W)		13

Listener Questions

Comparing 2026 AAA to 2025 AAA It looks like the Giants/Bryce Eldridge are working on his chase and pull air%, but I don’t think anyone, especially @Justin Mason would be happy with his plummeting zone contact%. Do you think he can recapture his zone contact% or is it going to be one or the other? (56:39)
With the annual repeated success (lately) of mid tier pitchers (Schlittler/Imanaga/Roupp/CSanchez25/Hunter Brown 25/etc.) I feel like I am buying more into the no SPs in top 6/7 rounds of my DCs … hitters and closers early – SPs in the middle. What do you think? (1:00:30)

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Approximately 77 minutes of joyous analysis.

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1498 – 2-Start Pitchers for Week 4

by Paul Sporer

April 18, 2026

4/17/26

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2-START PITCHERS FOR WK4 (APR 20th)

AUTO-START: Sonny Gray, Nolan McLean, Dylan Cease
J.T. Ginn at SEA, at TEX 1:30
Reynaldo López at WAS, PHI 3:30
Bryce Elder at WAS, PHI
Kyle Bradish at KCR, BOS 7:38

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1497 – Mid-Round Starter Check-Ins

by Paul Sporer

April 16, 2026

4/16/26

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MID-ROUND SP CHECK-INS

Sonny Gray (1:22)
Edward Cabrera (4:21)
Jesús Luzardo (8:57)
Emmet Sheehan (19:21)

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1496 – Early Max Exit Velocity Standouts

by Paul Sporer

April 13, 2026

4/13/26

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MaxEV RISERS

MaxEV Risers piece by Podhorzer

Austin Hays +2.7 4:37
Angel Martínez +2.7 14:45
Andrés Giménez +2.3 19:15
Jac Caglianone +2.0 26:35
David Hamilton +1.8 28:43
Brandon Lockridge +1.6 32:30
Wilyer Abreu +1.4 35:35
Rhys Hoskins +1.2 38:52

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Approximately 47 minutes of joyous analysis.