RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 3/24/2015 – SP Preview, Pt. 1

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March 24, 2015

Episode 208

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

In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris discuss some Spring Training news:

  • de la Rosa to start on DL w/groin
  • Franklin to start on DL w/oblique
  • Olivera to Dodgers for $62.5mil

POSITIONAL PREVIEWS: Starting Pitchers, Part 1 (Top 50 or so)

  • Strategy
    • First round SP?
    • Early SPs (Rounds 2-5)
    • How many SPs by Rd. 10?
  • Player Talk (We discuss them in groupings and skip over the first 15 by design*)
    • High upside, Risky arms (injury)
    • High upside, Risky arms (track record)
    • The Next Big Things
    • Really Good, but Not Flashy
    • Tiger Questions
    • Other injury/track record risks

*This group of arms doesn’t really need any more discussion in the run-up to drafts. They’re the studs and they will be treated as such universally.

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Approximately 67 minutes of joyous analysis.

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Matthew
10 years ago

My concern with Cole is the reasonable with. From a fantasy point, I see a potential Cueto type. The stuff isn’t the same, but inconsistent health and K numbers with fluctuating W,K%, and IP do bother me a bit, but his upside is sitting next to Matt Harvey,Hamel’s,Lester types for kw

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