RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 1/25/2015

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January 25, 2015

Episode 187

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

In this episode, Jason Collette and Nicholas Minnix talk about, among other players in the news, Sean Doolittle, Jered Weaver, Josh Hamilton, Prince Fielder, Dustin Pedroia, Taijuan Walker, Javier Baez, Jose Fernandez, Adam Wainwright, Cliff Lee, and Joey Votto.

Requested topics discussed: a keeper quandary involving several players, including Trevor Rosenthal, Jimmy Rollins, and Trevor Plouffe; Logan Morrison’s Steamer projection, particularly its forecast of 20 HR; and Jason’s boyfriend, Homer Bailey and the pitcher’s pre-injury trajectory and outlook.

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

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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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SF Dave
11 years ago

Gents –

Thanks for giving my question some love on the show. It’s my first roto scoring game. I failed to see that BB/K is the extra category in the Rosenthal et al question, not whip. However, The Sleeper and the Bust just might keep me afloat until I get my feet under me.

The rules behind my keeper league are unusual enough that I didn’t go into detail when bugging Mr. Sarris and Mr. Minnix far too often on twitter. All things equal it’s Rosenthal and get a SS in the draft. We have 8 keepers each and there are 16 teams so, even with tiered keepers, the pool is thinned. How much I won’t know until we declare keepers. Minnix called it “far from a perfect answer” but what other kind can there be for a far from perfect question.

Every opinion counts. In the mock draft Wiers’ just wrote about Rollins went 8.8 while Rosenthal went 10.10. Tulo went 1.8 so that has something to do with it but still… just another piece of the puzzle.

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Climbing The Wall
11 years ago

Here’s a psuedo-philosophical question for you: I’m in a league where you are allowed to hang on to your expiring keepers for one more year at the cost of burning another keeper slot. It’s a 12 team league with 8-10 keepers.

For example, I have Stanton on an expiring deal, so I’m planning to use two slots to extend his contract. However, I also have players such as Altuve, Braun, HanRam, and Scherzer on expiring deals that I am not sure are worth an extra slot. Your opinions?

For reference, my alternate non-expiring keeper candidates that would be getting bumped off the team in case I keep my expiring contracts are guys like Seager, Marte, Jansen, Arrieta, Cole, Ortiz. Rather have two of those guys or one of the guys from the above paragraph?

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Cool WHIP
11 years ago
Reply to  Climbing The Wall

Assuming this is 5×5, Altuve is definitely worth the extra slot. I’d probably throw Arrieta back, skew toward the hitting.

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Climbing The Wall
11 years ago
Reply to  Cool WHIP

It’s a triple slash league, which is part of why I’m on the fence with Altuve.

For reference, I’m picking 12th of 12 in a non-snake draft

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Steve
11 years ago

(Accidentally posted this in an old link, so re-posting.) I love the show…but I have to point something out. Nicholas really needs to move the microphone away from his mouse or get a mouse that doesn’t make a sound when it is clicked. The almost constant clicking of the mouse is totally distracting, and it seems to get worse every episode. Again, truly a great show. I don’t want to nitpick, but this makes the show tough to listen to at some points.

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Ryan BrockMember since 2025
11 years ago

Hey guys quick request, do you think you could do a nerdy spreadsheet cast at some point? Would be really interested to hear some discussion of how to set replacement levels to account for bench players, or how to pick the right hit/pitch split, for example.

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