RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 2/7/2015
Episode 191
The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live! It’s tough to let go, so this one runs a little long.
In this episode, Paul Sporer and Jason Collette reunite to discuss James Shields, Jarrod Parker, Dayan Viciedo, Brett Cecil and Aaron Sanchez before breaking down the NL East team-by-team.
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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Thanks to Ian Miller, aka Teen Archer, and Peaches & Herb for the intro music. Thanks to The Turtles for the outro music. Approximately 80 minutes of joyous analysis.
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Is Eno not doing the Sleeper and the Bust any longer?
I believe Eno does one day a week. Monday?
Eno on Tue-Thu, Jason on Sun
I kinda like Cole Hamel’s as a value. I know he is pricey, but hear me out. He is 10 picks behind Wainwright and Zimmermann, just ahead of Gray,Shark,Teheran, and Cobb in NFBC mocks. But I see a guy who altered his CB delivery and got 42% Whiff/Swing and 62% grounders on the Curve. He still has one of the best Changes in the game 2 elite pitches along with a top 30 FB and Cutter. Thinks are looking up. Depending on if and where he gets moved, his value could go up.
I love Hamels and if I can speak for Jason, I think he likes him, but we dismissed him as obvious so we were trying to dig a little deeper. I think he’s a surefire stud with Wins being the only real question on that club.
Yep, exactly. Hamels is in the set it & forget it club
Flow with Jason and Paul > than Eno and Paul. I think it’s because Eno’s polite and every time Paul interrupts, Eno stops talking where Jason’s used to it and just keeps talking. I’m not knocking Paul, I think he’s really smart and know’s his stuff, but the beauty of Minnix was the introduced subject and then let the “guest” run off everything they found before giving his opinion. If I have one suggestions it’s that Paul bring up a subject and then start a clock. He could give his guests 1 full min of talk time before imputing his thoughts. Write down any thoughts that he might have and, IF it’s not touched on by Eno or Jason (it usually will be) then interject.
Thoughts on keeping two players at the same position? I can keep two of Rizzo, Encarnacion, Bumgarner or Altuve, each for no penalty. I’m leaning Rizzo/Encarnacion, and stashing one at utility, but I’m not sure. Don’t want to give up on an elite second baseman.
Y’all don’t have a corner infielder? Even still, I’d keep those two. It’s two first rounders in my book. Altuve is good, but ripe for regression on the AVG and thus not a first rounder.
Throw back to the towers of power hour, or something along those lines! @ Sporer you are killing it! Welcome aboard the podcast!
If you go to the AL Central next (sorry–haven’t finished the episode), can you talk about Hosmer? Obviously the breakout’s not coming. But can you buy the Steamer projection? And any particular reason you guys can come up with for why Hosmer & Butler both had such low HR/FB rates last year?