The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1355 – Justin Quizzes Paul on his SP Rankings

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December 17, 2024

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PAUL’S SP RANKINGS:

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Chris ZellerMember since 2024
1 year ago

Thanks ! Good work! Good to have some baseball content. By the way I’m super high on Michael King. Just wondering how probable you think it is that he becomes a top 10 SP?

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Dominikk85Member since 2020
1 year ago

Degrom is hard to judge

If you just take his plus stats he was 143/110/122 on stuff/location/pitching

For comparison the qualified leaders where rodon (122), mikolas (109), wheeler (108).

He essentially both had best location and stuff rating and by a huge margin, degroms lead over the qualified leader in each of the 3 stats is larger than the gap between the qualified leader and number 20 in that category.

By that degrom is like a standard deviation better than anyone else, he is like peak LeBron vs the league.

On the other hand we don’t know how durable he will be. He could legitimately be 30 innings away from his career being over if there is another injury.

Every pitcher is risky but I’m really scared of drafting degrom that high, you kinda need some volume floor that high and also how high is his innings ceiling? Everyone could get injured but is there any chance he goes higher than 130 or so?

Last edited 1 year ago by Dominikk85
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Gho5tRun3rMember since 2016
1 year ago

Man, what’s frustrating with Yamamoto is he was supposed to be the guy least injury prone. He had all those stretches and flexibility exercises as part of his routine. And then he had that shoulder injury that took forever. Maybe the Dodgers were handling him with extreme kid gloves because he was so expensive, but it’s just so disappointing compared to the marketing.

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