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Happy Sunday evening, everybody. Welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast, sponsored by prize picks. We appreciate them for the sponsorship. I am Scott Jinstead. And with Jeff Erickson out of town this weekend, I got a special guest, one of my favorite people in the industry, one of the smartest guys in the industry, too, whether I like him or not. Just one smartest guys got Paul Sporer. uh paul thanks for jumping on i really appreciate it uh it should be uh should be fun looking forward to chat and baseball with you thank you so much for having me on scott i love this show it's one of my favorite things to kind of cap the week but then also kick off the next one that's kind of how i view it it's that transition for me it's a great way to calm down on sat, too. So hopefully filling in in Jeff's chair here, I give people the same enjoyment that I get from the show each week. Well, beautiful. I really appreciate you jumping on. Obviously, we've met multiple times in Vegas and drafts and stuff. And you definitely one of my favorite people to catch up. Thank you. I do see it there. So hopefully, hopefully that'll happen again soon.

Before we start, why don't you let everybody know where they can find all your fantastic work podcast, writing, all that kind of stuff? Absolutely. I'm over at Fangraphs. Basically, you just go to Fangraphs.com or fantasy.fangraphs.com. I do a daily SP chart where I rank the starters, kind of give 10, 12, 15 team recommendations with a little blurb about them, how I'm feeling. Always answering the comments in there if you have questions about, oh, should I start this guy? What about in this league type? I also do the podcast, The Sleeper in the Bus, with Justin Mason. We do that three times a week, and then he has a fourth episode with Jason Colette on most Sundays. I'm also on Twitch, twitch.tv.tv.tv. where I stream a few times a week. I do a box score show a few mornings a week where we just go over the box scores and talk baseball. It's almost like a box score podcast almost. And then I also work at out of the park baseball, which is a baseball simulator that fantasy nerds, the fact that you like fantasy baseball, you'd probably like OOTP. It's an amazing game, and I have a great time with that, too. Do you still Twitch? It will be the show and all that with the new game not really? Not as much. No, I'm more on OOTP and then real baseball. I've aged out of it and time. I don one, I don't mind being bad. Like, that's fine. I can, I can take some beatings from the, from the young kids out there. It really is just time. I still enjoy MLB. I still have it, but my hours on it are limited because with the OOTP gig and fan graphs, it is a lot. Yeah, it's uh it's it's it's it is time consuming like I try and play to it I'm like I just I can't go online because people like the 13 year olds would just smoke me and then talk crap to me too I trying to that but um well appreciate you jump it all I got to you I'm sure I told you before but uh you're uh used to the SP guide uh on the best pitcher guys to talk to that guide, man, made me better at this game. It's kind of when I started to get better at NFBC and the main event and stuff. I do miss that picture guide. It was an awesome, it was an awesome publication. So I'm sure I'm talking at some point, but man, that work was awesome. And obviously you do great work at Fangraphs. But yeah, the SP guide was like my first intro and a lot of these stats and stuff and like kind of realizing that era and whip were not the end-all be all so it was uh it was always really fun to read that i had a great time with it it was a huge undertaking every year but uh you know the people every picture was broken down yeah every picture i could just go on them as long as I want. And, you know, 100,000 words later, I linked up with Doug Thorburn, who brought his mechanics know-how to it. And I was really, really proud of that product. So, you know, as I got full-time jobs in the industry, which I'm very grateful for once, you know, worked for Rotowire for a while too. Now with Fangraphs, it wasn't time feasible, but I still write about pitchers all the time. So it's still there in spirit, just not as detailed as it used to be. I was, it's always really good. So I'm talking pitching. You got the Tigers hat on. Are we at the point where Terrick Scoobles is the best pitcher in baseball? He's certainly up there. You know, I will not dodge the Homer allegations if I say yes, but I certainly can make the case outside of just the Tiger's garb. He has really panned out.

And I think sometimes, you know, when we prop a guy up like this, you know, because we propped him up

off of 80 innings, let's be clear on that. There was gamble there. It wasn't so surefire. Yeah, we all had them in our top 20 at kind of the very least. The most aggressive probably had them in their top 1210 even for Tarek's scuba. And it's panning out beautifully. We don't talk about those ones enough. We always just focus on like kind of the busts of guys that pushed up he. He and Glassnow, they're working out. I know that you have to go through the rest of the season, too. But, you know, while we're lamenting Lewis, Rose Lewis getting hurt again, or Mike Trout, I mean, I'm naming a couple of offensive players, but like we're lamenting some of the early round busts. Those are two guys that are really, really clicked on

Tyler Glassnow and Terrick Scooban.

I think Scoobo has a great case as the top pitcher in baseball. If we're drafted tomorrow, it's him and Wheeler or won two, right? I don't you, whatever kind of exact order you want to put them in. They're one too. And I think Glass now is probably third. But I think it's, I think it's Scoobble and Wheeler be one too and just about every draft right now.

Yeah, I think so too.

I wouldn't get is probably third. But I think it's I think it's scubble and Wheeler be one too and just about every draft right now. Yeah, I think so too. I wouldn't get

away from either of them. I'm still very hot on burns, but the strikeouts are down a little bit. Right. And it's it's more an annoyance than a problem for me, but it you're starting to pick knits when you're up there at that top right because they're all studs so i agree well we

were scoble one2 in some form or

fashion. Yeah, I mean, scoble's K-minus walk right now is like 26%. Like it's, it's nuts. He's been, he's been fun. It's really well again today. Six and two-thirds, 10 strikeouts, only one run. He's one of those guys that like he's all he's pitching. I'm watching the game. It's like, You're shocked me.

It doesn't have a really good start.

So it's been fun.

You're right.

We focus so much on the bus. He doesn't have a really good start. So it's, it's been fun.

You're right.

We don't, we focus so much on the bus and who doesn't pan out.

It's fun when, you know, someone that was pushed up and there was some people like,

ah, it's kind of high for him. Uh, when it's kind of fun. Yeah, he's been, he's been great.

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