Archive for Podcast – The Sleeper and the Bust

Episode 287

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette are back for the first offseason edition of the show and they’re talking Dusty Baker & Don Mattingly with their new teams, Thor’s innings increase, some intriguing options that were picked up, and the first part of their Free Agent preview including Matt Wieters, Jason Heyward, and Alex Gordon.

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Episode 286

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris breakdown the World Series and get Eno’s prediction. Who are the key players on each side? How does KC’s contact-heavy game play vs. NYM’s power pitching-poor defense mix? Would you rather have the KC SPs or NYM RPs? And more. Then they discuss the AFL, going on now in Arizona, and highlight some guys they’re looking forward to seeing in two weeks including: Gary Sanchez, Alex Blandino, Dylan Bundy, A.J. Reed, and more.

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Episode 285

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris are back to discuss more playoff standouts including Daniel Murphy, Stephen Piscotty, Kevin Pillar, and Jorge Soler. They finish with scouting reports on the game 1 starts of each LCS and how the teams facing them might find success.

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Episode 284

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette are back to discuss Utley slide, some playoff standouts who are improving their 2016 stock, including Rougned Odor, Colby Rasmus, and Marco Estrada among others, and the playoffs at large (outside of the fantasy realm). And they finish the podcast discussing Jason’s bold picks from RW (AL, NL).

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Episode 126 – If He Gets Into The Lineup

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In the final episode of the year, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss DFS philosophy for the final weekend, the Blue Jays’ “hangover lineup,” Matt’s playoff fever in Chicago, Francisco Lindor being the new Jhonny Peralta, Matt making a pirate joke, the rash lineup decisions sometimes made in the playoffs, Mike Mahtook’s excellence against lefties, the recent hype surrounding Matt den Dekker, Wei-Yin Chen’s opportune matchup, Chris Sale seeking the White Sox record for strikeouts in a season, mispronouncing all of the Twitter handles of our favorite followers, some managers possibly on their way out, and a final thanks to everyone involved in the podcast this year.

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Episode 125 – A Bit Bittersweet

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson discuss their final episode together in 2015, how to handle the small early slate, not being able to take advantage of Toronto’s “hangover lineup,” trying to make sense of the DFS pricing algorithms, setting the bar low with Yangervis Solarte, the question mark that is Rich Hill, what to do with Derek Holland vs. Andrew Heaney, and a big thanks for Brad’s work this season.

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Episode 283

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris have got six pitchers who failed to live up to their lofty draft status. The two discuss what went wrong for these pitchers and decide whether or not they will re-invest in 2016.

• Andrew Cashner
• Alex Wood
• Gio Gonzalez
• Yordano Ventura
• Jordan Zimmermann
• Corey Kluber

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Episode 124 – This Is Crazy Baseball Right Now

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss end-of-season exhaustion, Brett Wallace vs. Clint Robinson as sleepers, sizing up Zach Davies, Dylan supposedly predicting great things from Lucas Duda, Brandon Phillips running on the basepaths more in 2015, Tyler Lyons’ potential as a starter, Mike Trout’s advantage over Bryce Harper, some questions of gamesmanship, and updating the Field of Streams stats.

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Episode 123 – Moose vs. Shark

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson discuss handling a very rainy slate, a couple Escobars, being frustrated by a continual lack of options at shortstop, Christian Bergman’s splits, Brad’s ill-timed defense of Jonathan Papelbon, identifying Jorge Lopez, trying to trust Johnny Cueto, avoiding the matchup of Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, and bad DFS analysis to avoid.

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Episode 282

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette meander along the baseball highway on this penultimate Sunday of the regular season. Jason brings up the second-half leaderboards and we hit some surprises scattered on each end of said leaderboards. It’s a pretty chill episode, small technical glitch in the middle, you’ll hear it.

If you have anything you’d like to hear us discuss next week, let us know in the comments. 

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