The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 454 – Stars Keep Getting Hurt

5/6/17

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Leading Off: Question of the Day

• How much are you putting on Cody Bellinger this week? (3:20)
  • 81% C, 45% Y!, 35% E

Strategy Section:

SHALLOW (pick 2 favorites)

• Matt Moore at NYM, CIN — 81% C, 44% Y!, 43% E ()
• Jerad Eickhoff SEA, at WAS — 80% C, 73% Y!, 40% E (10:00)
• Kendall Graveman LAA, at TEX — 78% C, 52% Y!, 49% E (11:43)
• Antonio Senzatela CHC, LAD — 72% C, 47% Y!, 49% E (10:26)
• Kevin Gausman WAS, at KC — 71% C, 61% Y!, 61% E (10:50)
• Charlie Morton ATL, at NYY — 64% C, 16% Y!, 14% E (9:30)
• Hisashi Iwakuma at PHI, at TOR — 61% C, 41% Y!, 34% E (11:20)

DEEP (pick 2 favorites)

• Alex Wood PIT, at COL — 59% C, 25% Y!, 18% E (17:42)
• Blake Snell KC, at BOS — 57% C, 32% Y!, 15% E (13:30, 18:05)
• Trevor Bauer at TOR, MIN — 55% C, 31% Y!, 20% E (14:00)
• Hector Santiago at CWS, at CLE — 52% C, 28% Y!, 28% E (17:24)
• Matt Andriese KC, at BOS — 38% C, 9% Y!, 6% E (13:00, 14:16)

SUPER DEEP (pick 2 favorites)

• Wily Peralta BOS, NYM — 34% C, 18% Y!, 15% E (24:34)
• A.J. Griffin as SD, OAK — 29% C, 7% Y!, 8% E (23:54, 25:22)
• Kyle Freeland CHC, LAD — 26% C, 15% Y!, 13% E ()
• Adam Conley STL, ATL — 26% C, 6% Y!, 4% E (22:15)
• Ricky Nolasco at OAK, DET — 19% C, 6% Y!, 6% E ()
• Nate Karns at TB, BAL — 15% C, 2% Y!, 2% E (21:21)
• Luis Perdomo TEX, at CWS — 10% C, 2% Y!, 2% E (24:47)
• Nick Martinez at SD, OAK — 7% C, 2% Y!, 5% E (22:31)

Strategy Section: Save Specs (29:33)

• Brad Brach (30:00)
• Justin Wilson (33:50)
• Trevor Rosenthal
• Corey Knebel (35:00)
• Washington Mess (37:15)

Strategy Section: Hitters to Pickup

OUTFIELDERS

Cut Kevin Kiermaier or Curtis Granderson for: (41:00)

• Kevin Pillar — 56% C, 38% Y!, 50% E
• Matt Holliday — 56% C, 61% Y!, 28% E (41:23)
• Delino DeShields — 24% C, 9% Y!, 7% E
• Aaron Altherr — 22% C, 15% Y!, 11% E (44:30)
• Domingo Santana — 31% C, 24% Y!, 14% E (45:00)

INFIELDERS

Cut Adrian Gonzalez for: (46:05)

• Josh Bell — 55% C, 33% Y!, 14% E (47:29)
• Yonder Alonso — 15% C, 7% Y!, % E (46:28)
• Logan Morrison — % C, % Y!, % E (48:10)

Cut Alex Bregman for: (50:00)

• Marwin Gonzalez — 46% C, 57% Y!, 18% E (51:26)
• Josh Harrison  — 45% C, 46% Y!, 44% E (52:50)
• Hernan Perez — 54% C, 40% Y!, 25% E ()
• Ryan Schimpf — 20% C, % Y!, % E ()
• Tim Beckham — 24% C, 31% Y!, 11% E (54:22)

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