The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 462 – SP Ranking Updates
by Paul Sporer
May 25, 2017
5/25/17
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Leading Off: Question of the Day
- Which surging vet do you trust most: Jason Vargas, Ervin Santana, or Mike Leake? (4:10)
Strategy Section: SP Rankings Update
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UP
- Where has Luis Severino improved? (11:35)
- Is Sonny Gray back? (30:50)
- What’s driving Alex Wood’s surge? (39:47)
- Can Dylan Bundy hold up all year? (43:53)
- Even accounting for LOB/BABIP good fortune, is Dallas Keuchel fully back? (55:00)
- Is Eduardo Rodriguez BOS’s 2nd-best SP until Price returns? (1:07:45)
DOWN
- Can Kenta Maeda be trusted? (1:12:35)
- Is Matt Harvey done? (1:20:13)
- Oh no, Danny Salazar just allowed nine homers while we’re recording this (1:27:40)
- Why is Kevin Gausman SO bad this year?! (1:31:30)
- Where did we miss on Matt Moore? (1:35:03)
- Is Masahiro Tanaka hurt or bad? (1:39:00)
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How worried should I be about Justin Verlander?
A little. Not enough to sit or anything for me personally, but I’m going to deep dive him this weekend.
Thanks Paul, I appreciate it. Love the podcasts!
Was also going to ask about Verlander, so convenient that the question is already posed. I’m looking to buy him though. Maybe something like Bregman and Severino (or Montgomery). Am I properly valuing? Would you rather have Severino than Verlander at this point? His only 3B is Castellanos, so Bregman would be a useful piece. Would I be too greedy asking for CarGo or Schwarber back as well? Just listening to the last podcast now, and he conveniently has both of them as well haha. Sorry for the 100 questions! Love the podcast!