The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 478 – Baseball’s Back!

7/15/17

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Leading Off: Question of the Day (6:00)

• Joe Girardi on that Aroldis Chapman’s struggles : Agree or disagree?

Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play (13:00)

• Jose Quintana goes North while Eloy Jimenez, Dylan Cease others go south
• Zach Burdi (CHW fireballer reliever) to undergo TJ like his brother Nick (Minnesota) recently had to
• Greg Bird has setback; Yanks send Tyler Webb to Milwaukee for Garrett Cooper
• Pinata (Michael Pineda) needs TJ surgery… maybe Chance Adams later?
• Tyler Glasnow shoving in Triple-A
• Chris Davis, David Dahl, Sean Rodriguez, & Danny Salazar out on rehab assignments
• Two outfielders of note are back in the bigs: Tyler Naquin & some dude named Mike Trout

Strategy Section: All-Formats Players?

• Jacob Faria: 7 for 7 in quality starts – GREAT article on him (34:28)
• Orlando Arcia – .345/.381/.536 over past month (40:30)
• Chad Green – all formats guy now in shaky NY pen? (43:10)

Strategy Section: The Check-In

• Don’t freak out over Manny Machado (44:40)
• Ice cold over the last month: (46:00)
  • Matt Kemp 
  • Ryan Zimmerman
  • Brandon Crawford
• Red hot over the last month: (52:48)
  • Joc Pederson
  • Willson Contreras
  • Yasiel Puig

Strategy Section: Two-Start Arms

• Tyson Ross @BAL @TB (58:33)
• Andrew Cashner: @BAL, @TB (58:33)
• Brent Suter: @PIT, @PHI (59:58)
• Marcus Stroman: @BOS, @CLE (1:02:40)
• Ivan Nova: MIL, @COL (1:05:50)
• Josh Tomlin: @SF, TOR (1:06:45)
• Matt Moore: CLE, SD (1:07:45)
• German Marquez: SD, PIT (1:08:21)
• JA Happ: @BOS, @CLE (1:10:00)

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Approximately 77 minutes of joyous analysis.

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