RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 06/19/2014

Episode 131

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is now live! Eno Sarris and Nicholas Minnix discuss Clayton Kershaw‘s no-no, Matt Holliday’s decline in power, Jeff Samardzija, Jason Hammel, Jake Arrieta, Alfredo Simon, Danny Duffy, Kyle Gibson, Kris Bryant and Javier Baez, Kevin Gausman, Yohan Pino as placeholder for Alex Meyer and Trevor May, and Anthony DeSclafani.

As usual, don’t hesitate to tweet us or comment with fantasy questions so that we may answer them on our next episode.

You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or via the feed.

Thanks to Ian Miller, aka Teen Archer, for the intro music. Approximately 68 minutes of joyous analysis.

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Nicholas Minnix oversaw baseball content for six years at KFFL, where he held the loose title of Managing Editor for seven and a half before he joined FanGraphs. He played in both Tout Wars and LABR from 2010 through 2014. Follow him on Twitter @NicholasMinnix.

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quinceleather
11 years ago

i love listening and think that this episode was much better than previous ones. I think you can still make it “tighter” and faster with the same information. Try making a declarative sentence and then stopping. not making the same statement in other ways. Thanks again.
Also, if you could relay to Cistulli an idea for notgraphs–I think Verlander’s problems are with Upton, the same way Roy Hobbs problem was Memo Paris. I think this needs to be explored……..