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Paul Sporer

1:51

Yes please!

Claydon

1:51

Should Taylor Walls be available on the wire in a 10 team redraft?

Paul Sporer

1:52

Yeah, there might be a team that can use him, but he's not a must-roster in a 10 teamer

fantas eeyore

1:52

In 12 tm roto I'm starting Oviedo next week at home against LAD if he ______ today.

Paul Sporer

1:52

lobotomizes me

Guest

1:53

% chance Alek Thomas gets more ROS PT than Jake McCarthy?

1:53

is jake mccarthy gonna produce this year anything close to what he did at the end of last year?

Paul Sporer

1:56

I suspect they continue to play about the same, but Thomas's defense is better so McCarthy continues to struggle, Thomas will pass him. RE: McCarthy's production, his BABIP will come up as he's making plenty of contact, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has a single-digit HR count

Bruce Live in 2023

1:56

Soroka should be back up soon. Interest in a deep league roto?

Paul Sporer

1:56

Yeah, the dearth of available talent plus his past success make him appealing

Josh Lowe

1:56

Am I a Lowe key league winner...or am I just Joshing around?

Paul Sporer

1:58

Could be the classic "fantasy community completely discarded him after a bad start only to see explode the following year". The hype he had last year hasn't vanished. He'll stabilize from where he is now, but the lowered K and SwStr rates are very encouraging

Francisco Alvarez

1:58

Am I gonna be good this year?

Paul Sporer

1:59

Maybe? :shrug: I'm not a fan of rookie Cs in general and he's in a 50-50 timeshare right now

Izzy

1:59

Is Patrick Wisdom an actual starting caliber player?

Paul Sporer

2:01

No, the same guy he's always been, just running hot. Compare this run to the 2nd half of May 2022 and it's virtually the same https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=wisdopa01&t=b&ye...

CaliforniaJag

2:01

Are you buying the Yandy Diaz power bump with the increased launch angle, or will he go back to his groundball ways soon enough?

Kleo

2:01

Is Yandy Diaz' power for real? Do you see him being a poor man's Edgar Martinez?

Paul Sporer

2:03

The launch angle and flyball surges are super encouraging and give this some believability. We've always wanted him to just get some lift in hopes that it'd spur a power surge... so far, so good! We'll see if he falls back into his GB% ways the first time he struggles, but I'd be pretty psyched if I rostered him this year

Shohei Ruth

2:03

Rays get a draft pick if Taj wins ROY. He's here to stay, right?

Paul Sporer

2:04

He's here to stay because they need him. Plus he threw 133 IP last yr so it's not like he needs to be super managed

more Dbacks

2:04

gotta be Pfaadt time with yet another Bumgarner blowup yeah? not like Arizona isn't competing this year, they're 10-5 when MadBum doesn't start!

Paul Sporer

2:04

I certainly hope. It's a sunk cost, there is no need to keep rolling MadBum out in the rotation. I know he's a hardass, but you tell him he can relieve or go home lol

Trey

2:05

How we feeling about Daulton Varsho right now?

Paul Sporer

2:05

No different than I did back in draft season tbh

Guest

2:05

I hate rostering two catchers but I have two that are rosterable and basically the same: William Contreras and Tyler Stephenson. about to have a roster crunch with IL guys. what would you do with the catcher slot?

Paul Sporer

2:06

I'm a huge T Step fan, so I'm leaning his way and if you can't trade one, Contreras gets cut for me. They're close enough that if you prefer WC, I'm not gonna blast you. But I understand if you can't really hold 2 Cs

hank

2:06

is Jake McCarthy droppable in a 12-team keeper league?

Paul Sporer

2:07

Always depends who you're picking up, but I don't think I'm ready to cut him just yet

Dylan Cease

2:07

How much worse will I be than my results last year?

Paul Sporer

2:09

I still worry the command will breed some volatility but if the BABIP stays tiny, it's hard to take advantage of the free passes

Trea Turner

2:10

Looks like i'm not running as much anymore. How many SB's will i get this year

Paul Sporer

2:10

He's pacing for the exact same 27 he had last year, just sayin

Heim

2:11

Can Heim maintain a top 7-10 catcher pace?

Paul Sporer

2:12

Huge Heim fan so I don't want to just be Confirmation Bias Carl over here, but I believe he can remain in that range making him viable in 1-C 10-teamers

phil

2:13

drop Turang for Walls in standard?

Paul Sporer

2:14

That'd be OK, yeah

Baty

2:14

Am I really going to sit vs Lefties every game this year?

Paul Sporer

2:14

For the foreseeable future, yeah. Teams just loving platooning their young lefty hitters