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Paul Sporer

1:04

Hello everyone! Thanks for coming out

Guest

1:04

With the kind of hot starts to the MLB season that many of the elite prospects are having, why shouldn't more teams bring up their top-ranked minor leaguers?

Paul Sporer

1:07

Well this doesn't prove anything. But also, teams are. Prospects coming up younger and younger with more and more readiness. It's definitely happening and it will probably continue to accelerate

Dave in slc

1:07

Have an al only auction this sat. Has anyone pitcher or hotter moved significantly up or down your board?

Paul Sporer

1:09

Not that I can really think of. DeLauter's hype is tempered by his foot, but I would be open to paying more than we did a couple weeks ago assuming no bad news on the foot. I'm not necessarily MORE confident in Kevin McG and Wetherholt based off a week but you will have to pay more now and I'm OK w/that. They were undervalued all draft season (again, I thought this even before a week of raking) and now w/the fast start, any late drafters are going to pay full freight on them

Jane

1:09

Hi Paul! Prefer Brooks Lee or Willi Castro? Can you please rank these guys for saves: Stanek, B. Baker, Leiter Jr, B. King, Alexander, and Strahm? Thank you!

Paul Sporer

1:12

Castro. Just not sure Lee has any fantasy juice. He could Gavin Lux us (6 HR+SB in 503 PA with some really empty PT. Hard to really differentiate between those 6, so I'll just say I favor Stanek and Leiter. It's a mixed bag on the rest

1:14

To put in context that Gavin Lux stat of 6 HR+SB, it hadn't been done in 500+ PA since 2018 when Joe Mauer did it. And then there were 2 in each of 2014-16:
Yunel Escobar
Adeiny Hechavarría
Johnny Giavotella
Nick Markakis
Jed Lowrie
Kurt Suzuki

Day Games

1:14

blind reserve OF toss up: Friedl or Caissie

Paul Sporer

1:19

Not out on Friedl bc of his start or anything, but I'm inclined to ride the Caissie wave to see if these strikeout gains are real

Matt

1:20

I'm still waiting a week or two to make sure it makes sense to call up Painter and/or Chandler. In the meantime, you taking Will Warren vs ATH or McGreevy vs WSH this week? QS 12 team roto

Paul Sporer

1:22

I'd run Warren with better support so you might the Win net to catch you if the ratios are just meh

GettinMiggyWithIt

1:22

Jose Caballero do anything for you? If he's hitting and stealing when Volpe comes back, can he carve out enough PT?

Paul Sporer

1:22

Definitely. SB specialists really don't have to play daily to deliver. But you do have to get comfortable just leaving them in the lineup instead of trying to time everything.

GettinMiggyWithIt

1:22

Marlins gonna surprise this year?

Paul Sporer

1:23

If the hitting keeps up, I think so. I like their rotation a lot. Bridge to Fairbanks has been insane so far, is it real?

Fant’sy Feast

1:23

This early in the season, is it too early to be tinkering with my lineup? e.g. subbing in Vargas at CI over Contreras, or would you start the guy you invested more in? Weekly 5x5 roto here, but also asking generally

Paul Sporer

1:24

I'm stick with the studs player. Willson Contreras maybe not quite stud status, but he's done a helluva lot more than Vargas (who I also like a lot to be clear) and I'm gonna roll with WC for a good sample before making any move. If you go too hard on that, you end chasing your tail and always putting in the hot streak on the tail end and missing the benched guy's regression back to the mean

Lord Thunder

1:24

How did Noelvi Marte go from a promising young hitter to cut bait?

Paul Sporer

1:29

That's the nature of prospecting. Nothing's guaranteed. They're still not perfect (nor will they ever be bc that's not how this works) and sometimes things just don't come together in the minors like we thought they could in the minors for any number of reasons. As for Noelvi, I don't quite agree with the assessment that he's a cut bait guy already, he's still just 24 with fewer than 800 PA in the majors so I wouldn't rule out a full ascent still. His bad spring and first 4 gms this yr is still just 66 PA.

Fant’sy Feast

1:30

Hey Paul, who do you like better of the wire in a league that uses QS and K/9: Roupp, Liberatore, or dark horse Mlod?

Guest

1:31

Rank the sleeper and the bust hosts by who would would last the longest in the hunger games

Paul Sporer

1:35

Eno - he's a hippie at heart, they're resourceful outdoors
Justin - this is contingent on him MacGyver'ing some cigs in the wild, otherwise he drops below me day 1
Jason - 10 yrs ago, he's prob #1, but the injuries have piled up
Joe - one person shows him in the new NFBC site in the wild and it's over
me - i'm a waif, i'm so cooked

Day Games

1:36

Should you sit hitters when Denzel Clark is playing CF?

Paul Sporer

1:36

Maybe if you're in a HR pool, he's lookin to rob!!

Dave in slc

1:37

Al only keeper how do you rank rutchman, teel and dingler?

Paul Sporer

1:37

Rutsch-Ding-Teel

Pecorino Romano

1:39

Can I get odds on Romano as main halos closer ros? I know he's mediocre, but so are pom and yates, and Joyce, when back, is someone they've held out of saves before...

Paul Sporer

1:41

35-40% if he can stay healthy? I get adding him if you need SVs, but the confidence meter is low. At least he's missing bats early on

Colton

1:41

I'm not hitting the panic button yet but WOOF the A's are having a rough start at the plate... need positive thoughts for people like me who stacked their hitters on my fantasy team lol

Paul Sporer

1:41

Just wait until they get home at least!!

Insert Witty Name Here

1:42

10 team OBP league, need a 3rd OF, Cags, Soderstrom, Renyolds or Carpenter?

Paul Sporer

1:42

Soderstrom for me.

Kevin

1:42

what kind of year are you expecting from Bryce Miller when he returns? Is there Top 30 SP upside, or has that ship sailed?

Paul Sporer

1:43

I don't think it's sailed, he's still a really good pitcher IMO, but he's not easy to trust with the persistent health issues. And they can impact his performance, too of course, bc even when he's pitching doesn't mean he's 100% without a doubt

Straw

1:43

Sal Stewart or Jonathan Aranda?

Paul Sporer

1:44

Stew's the more dynamic fantasy option

Jake

1:44

Is Kyle Manzardo any good? or no?

Paul Sporer

1:44

What kinda league?

1:45

Manzo's a hang with 'em type in places where you'd draft him (15s and deeper). I don't love him in H2H bc of his extreme volatility, but in roto, I only really care about the final season line. Obv I'm not gonna eat a 7 wRC+ for 5-6 wks, but I also don't think he'll stay down here, so nothing in these 6 games has me moving off him in spots where I deemed him worth drafting

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