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Paul Sporer Rotographs Chat

Paul Sporer

12:00

It's time to talk some baseball!!!

Mark Shapiro

12:00

What would you do with Colin Mchugh in 12 team dynasty league?

Paul Sporer

12:01

I'm not against cutting him. I think he'll be solid out of the pen, but I'm not sure how useful a decent non-saves RP is in 12-teamer

hscer

12:01

Talked a lot about Tigers on #688 but didn't hear Goodrum's name...I'm still holding as a bench bat in some places, but not sure how bright that is all else equal

Paul Sporer

12:01

Did a podcast with Alex Fast of PitcherlIst (out later today) and Goodrum gets some love. I think there's some upside. He deserves better than we've seen

Vern Rapp

12:02

Expectation for Soroka ROS? He can’t be this good, obviously, but is low 3.00s ERA and sub 1.10 WHIP feasible?

Paul Sporer

12:03

It's definitely possible. I'd eye more of a 3.40/1.15 and hope he can beat that, but I really like him

oswald2319

12:03

With matt olson back do you think the A's are gonna go on a hot streak-- Fun fact at one point the 2002 A's (Yes those A's) were 5 games under .500 and they still won 103 games

Paul Sporer

12:03

They certainly could get their offense going in the same direction soon

person 1

12:03

Would you rather have Pence or Mancini ROS?

Paul Sporer

12:03

Mancini has more PT on lock so that'll be the tiebreaker

Fangraph's Lurker

12:04

10 teamer, due to having 1 IL spot I'm in a roster crunch and can't afford to gamble with both eloy jimenez and keston hiura. Who gets dropped? I intend to pick up one of minor, giolito, and M. perez

Paul Sporer

12:04

I mean, if you're deciding between the two, I guess I'd take the healthy one. REEEEEAAALLLLYYYY hard to cut Eloy, though

vft

12:05

Should we be worried about Bauer? That walk rate is pretty gross

Paul Sporer

12:05

There's no actionable worry. Just have to set it and forget it. But ya, the walk rate is a bit alarming

Fangraph's Lurker

12:05

Weekly update: Ramirez still hasn't remembered how to hit

Paul Sporer

12:05

Ya Jose Ramirez continues to struggle

Mateo

12:05

What prospect are you bidding the most on (who has been called up)? Riley, Hiura, Rodgers, Mercado, someone else?

Paul Sporer

12:06

We went deeep on that very topic on the latest pod: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/the-sleeper-and-the-bust-episode-688-pro...

Larry Hutz

12:06

Willie Calhoun for real? Seems like he's adjusted his approach this season

Paul Sporer

12:07

Big fan of his bat and if he can get regular PT, I think he can breakthrough. I was all over him to breakout last year and I'm chronically a year early so it makes sense that he'd go off this year lol

Dave_W

12:07

What do you think happens with Tyler O'Neil? He doesn't have anything left to prove at AAA and is destroying the ball (7hr in last 12 games). How does he end up moving forward?

Paul Sporer

12:07

Kinda has to wait for a spot to open up.

Matt

12:07

Which "best reliever on team" do you think is most likely to start getting saves? T Rogers or T Buttrey?

Paul Sporer

12:07

Buttrey

Pat

12:07

How worried should I be about Jose Ramirez? He hasn't hit at all for closing in on 5 months...

Paul Sporer

12:09

This is such a weird myth I'm seeing purported elsewhere. It's HALF that -- Sept, Apr, half of May ... he had a .823 OPS w/5 HR, 4 SB in Aug and 1.164 OPS in July... how is it five months?!

James Benoit

12:09

What are you doing if you have big tickets like Josh Bell, Pete Alonso, and George Springer on your team? Sell high, or hold and ride the wave?

Paul Sporer

12:09

There is no one way to play it. Depends what your team is like and what you can get.

12:09

Ten team, 25-man rosters. Are Cano, Daniel Murphy, Winker and Puig still rosterable? Brutal starts for all of them.

Paul Sporer

12:12

It's been roughhhhh, with a 3-man reserve, I can see moving on from them in this order: Winker, Cano, Murphy, Puig ... with 5+ reserve, I'm trying to hold a bit longer

12:12

Dynasty: if 2b is a position of need, trade Adell for Hiura? PS: If you own Cesar Hernandez, is 2b a position of need?

Paul Sporer

12:13

That trade is totally fine, but I'm not sure 2B is a need with Cesar Hernandez, tbh

Oliver

12:13

Like most, need SP bad. In a 12 team h2h categories(obp) who should have the most value/ who should I be looking to move out of GPolanco Santana Soler FReyes

Paul Sporer

12:13

Franmil will bring you the most back

david's dull

12:13

hey Sporer! what are we doing with David Dahl's power outage?
You holding, buying, selling? Numbers look similar to last year but fb% way down. Im assuming launch angle aswell... Hoping for some self correction but getting impatient.

Paul Sporer

12:14

I'm definitely holding. It's maddening, but I can't just cut him. I'd even be open to scooping him in some scenarios

Seeds

12:15

Paul in a h2h league where you're dominant on one side (pitching in my case), but underperforming on the other, do you trade from that strength to try and be more balanced or do you maintain the strength and lock up pitching most weeks and hope things break your way in a couple of cats on the other side for a couple of weeks come playoff time? I lean towards maintaining the strength but would love your opinion!

Paul Sporer

12:16

Yes, I tend to agree here about keeping the strength. Especially bc one trade isn't likely to sway the offense entirely and could cut into your strength

Mike

12:16

How would you rank these stashes for ROS: Luzardo, Cease, Whitley

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