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Paul Sporer Rotographs Chat

Paul Sporer

1:00

Wooo, welcome to September 222nd!!!

ScottTINSTAAPP

1:03

September 222nd let's go!

I see you're almost cashing in the overall of the ME, bring it home man!

Paul Sporer

1:03

Sooo close! Would loooove to do it

ScottTINSTAAPP

1:03

I'm a bit nervous about Rake since he's playing with the finger fracture...do you think he's an auto start for the last week or are you open to benching him if you have a slightly worse talent on the bench (like La Stella type)

Paul Sporer

1:04

Definitely open to sitting him for the final week-plus at this point for the same reason. Not a MUUUST start right now

Julian

1:04

When will you have your 2022 rankings out?

Paul Sporer

1:05

Working on them already and have some plans for rollout. Don't have an exact date, but things will start coming out in October

1:06

Julian, for some reason it's not allowing me to add your question re: the auction calculator into the chat, but I see it and I'll mention it on our next mtg about the AC & offseason stuff

Mike

1:06

What do you make of Aaron Ashby? He’s been awesome, but do you think he would be able to replicate this success as a starter? Or is he a likely multi inning reliever?

Paul Sporer

1:06

I still see starter upside. Big Ashby fan myself and happy to see him rebound from that dreadful debut (not that I didn't think he would)

Guest

1:09

Patrick Sandoval going to be a top 50 starter next season?

Paul Sporer

1:09

I can't go that high, especially ending the season w/an injury

Slapshot

1:10

First half Daulton Varsho was pretty ugly. Second half Daulton Varsho has been pretty good and feels like the type of numbers some of his pre-draft rankings would have suggested. Where would you rate him going into 2022, specifically with regards to his catcher eligibility?

Paul Sporer

1:13

I think he could be a .250-20-10 kinda guy at C which is top 10 at the position. I'll be buying most likely

Trey

1:13

Is Perez the #1 catcher next year or does Realmuto hold on to that?

Paul Sporer

1:14

I think Perez will leapfrog him

Eric

1:14

What to do in 5x5 ottoneu when you own both Salvy & Adley?

Paul Sporer

1:14

Think you gotta move on and selling high on Salvy seems like a great idea

Trey

1:16

This was my first year playing Roto instead of H2H, and I liked that it felt more fair, but it became hard to keep people engaged when it felt like the standings were unchangeable late in the season. Any advice on keeping people engaged?

Paul Sporer

1:18

That is always a challenge, though I think it can be a challenge in h2h too as playing spoiler isn't always a huge allure. I've seen 2nd half prizes (highest pt total in 2H gets a piece of the pool... I'd say at least entry fee back), also penalties for last to keep ppl pushing to get out of that spot (don't reco this in a high turnover lg, though as the last place tm will usually just bail). Anyone else in chat have ideas on maintaining roto engagement for the non-competing teams? Ooh another one is draft order starts w/1st team out of money so say 4 get paid, draft goes 5-12 then 4, 3, 2, 1

Mike

1:19

Any favorite bats or pitcher streams (say under ~50%) for next week?

Paul Sporer

1:20

I haven't studied next week's slate yet, but I'll be keeping the SP Chart going: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/category/sp-chart/

Ned

1:25

Lamonte wade was a nice pickup this week facing 6 righties. Any batting streams next week stick out to you?

Paul Sporer

1:30

Best I have off the top would be stack games and there's a good # of 7-gm teams

Paul Mushrooms

1:30

In May, I offered Rodon and Semien for Corey Seager. The guy declined. I’m now winning my league. Any trade offers you regretted or relieved that it wasn’t accepted?

Paul Sporer

1:31

I'm only in one trading league this year and I only semi-regret not selling Yelich on some buy-low offers that look a bit better now, buuuuttt I'm in the finals this week so I can't be TOO upset

Sean

1:32

Would you cut blackmon for this week’s matchups, despite being in coors, and pick back up next week? Or not enough power to roster next week?

Paul Sporer

1:33

Bc LAD & SF are good? I dunno, I'd still lean on Coors. I'm either riding w/him through this homestand or leaving him completely. If you cut, I don't see huge upside in getting him back next week (3 home v. WAS and 3 at ARI... which is good, but I'd just go the whole way w/him personally)

Jay

1:33

CJ Cron ranks 83rd in fantasy points on CBS, but almost all of that value is concentrated in his home starts (18 hr, .322BA, 63 RBI at home; 9HR, .226 BA and 22 RBI on road.) Does that make him even MORE valuable in daily leagues, because you can start him at home and bench him when he's likely to stink?

Paul Sporer

1:36

Definitely adds some value when you can clearly eliminate his downside, though I doubt he's in Colorado next year so it won't be as easy to identify. Fair to say that the hype of him going to Colorado paid off

Guest

1:36

Hey Paul! Trying to map keepers for next year and I'm stuck. Keep 3 at round value
Freeman - 1st rd
Soto - 1st rd (traded for this season, 2nd rd if I keep Freeman)
Mullins - 14th rd
Luis Garcia - 14th rd
Jorge Polanco - 16th rd

I'm leaning to trade Feeeman to move up some picks elsewhere and keeping Soto, Mullins I just can't decide on Garcia v Polanco

Paul Sporer

1:39

Yeah I'm w/you on Soto/Mullins and then coming down to Garcia/Polanco. Loooove what Garcia has done and I was dead wrong about them taking him out for Cristian Javier (I remain stunned by that, tbh) but I'm inclined to go w/the hitter here and then just stack pitching in the draft

Murray

1:39

Do you think Logan Gilbert will be a top 25-30 starter next season?

Paul Sporer

1:41

That's a definite possibility. I'll probably have him around top 40ish to start the season w/major upside

Alvin

1:41

Who should I drop when Franco returns: Mondesi, Grisham, or Mountcastle?

Paul Sporer

1:42

I'd cut Grisham