Episode 27 – The Vedder Cup

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson discuss The Vedder Cup, still not believing in Nick Martinez and other pitchers with poor peripherals, evaluating hitters who are underrated based on their pitcher-friendly home park, Noah Syndergaard’s debut, hoping for Mike Napoli to turn things around, the ambiguous sustainability of Dee Gordon’s early success, Troy Tulowitzki looking particularly human, not being ready to jump off Chris Sale’s bandwagon, and pitchers with high velocities that are not notching many strikeouts.

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Episode 26 – Duffman Is Thrusting In The Direction Of The Road

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Eric Hosmer’s development, all of the home runs Marco Estrada may give up on Monday, being terrified of Ubaldo Jimenez in two ways, saying mean things about Jerome Williams, Dylan using Matt’s White Sox strategies against him, not believing in Nick Martinez, and getting deprived of a matchup between the podcast’s two favorite Cubans.

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Episode 227

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette discuss the injury news surrounding Alex Cobb, Drew Smyly, Jarrod Parker, Alex Avila, Aramis Ramirez, and Michael Saunders. They talk about their current valuations of Michael Pineda, Garrett Richards, Bartolo Colon, Jedd Gyorko, Adam Eaton, Jason Kipnis, Chris Carter, Noah Syndergaard, Carlos Rodon, and Preston Tucker. They check in on some wobbly bullpen situations, too.

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Episode 25 – A Chubby Set of Catching Gear

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Matt’s wife passing her driving test, Adam on Adam action, taking a good look at team splits for the first time, searching through worthwhile options that don’t happen to have the platoon advantage, forcing Matt to choose against Vance Worley, Carlos Rodon’s first Major League start, Matt being forced to watch White Sox baseball this weekend, Dallas Cy-chel, Matt attracting hate mail, and Dylan declaring his approval of Giancarlo Stanton.

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Episode 226

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris discuss the injury news surrounding Coco Crisp, Jayson Werth, J.J. Hardy, and Nick Swisher. They dive into the performances of Corey Kluber, Chris Sale, Drew Pomeranz, Mike Fiers, James Shields, Joc Pederson, Yasmani Grandal, and Andrelton Simmons before closing with a couple of Arizona transactions.

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Episode 24 – The Flopping Aces

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson are joined by Paul Sporer to discuss collecting all of the hosts from The Sleeper and The Bust, getting birthday-burned by Ubaldo Jimenez, a big homer day on Wednesday, a strong split slate on Thursday, purposely making non-obvious picks, closer looks at Jose Iglesias and Dee Gordon, more thoughts on hitter vs. pitcher histories, not giving up on struggling veterans, dealing with being a new Alex Rodriguez fan in 2015, and Joey Votto’s entertaining rage and ensuing apology.

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Episode 23 – Colby On Colby Action

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Dylan’s birthday, hitter vs. pitcher histories and how to handle (or ignore) them, Dylan living on a particular side of the tracks, navigating a doubleheader in Colorado, Dylan using a different microphone, Kelly Johnson’s early power outburst, Mark Buehrle vs. CC Sabathia in 2015, Nelson Cruz’s ridiculous line against lefties so far this year, trying to remember what is interesting about Sam Deduno, and Matt taking the opportunity to break rule No. 1 then ranting about the White Sox.

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Episode 225

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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris discuss the injury news surrounding Alex Cobb, Anthony Rendon, Hanley Ramirez, and Oswaldo Arcia. They also dive into the April performances of Stephen Vogt, Josh Reddick, Brandon Crawford, Dee Gordon, Dallas Keuchel, and Alex Wood. They close talking about some call-ups: Chad Billingsley, Tyler Lyons, and Eddie Rosario.

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Episode 22 – An Ordinary Brand Of Ordinary

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson discuss Dylan atoning for saying something really boneheaded, what to make of potential breakouts from Stephen Vogt and Zack Cozart, Devin Mesoraco’s seemingly endless limbo, pitchers matching up against weak offenses that don’t strike out, Kelly Johnson’s surprising power, what order to build your DFS lineup in, and Dylan committing a DFS sin.

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Episode 21 – Loser Pitcher Bouquet

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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss a recap of this weekend’s White Sox / Twins matchups, weighing the value of some high-price DFS options, Dylan trying to get Matt’s attention with Jeff Francoeur, Dallas Keuchel’s ceiling given his lack of strikeouts, Dylan’s love of Jonathan Villar, an update on the contest standings, Chad Billingsley being “back from the dead,” and Matt’s hard-hitting moustache analysis.

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