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The Sleeper and the Bust 8/11/2015 – Machi Closing?!

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Episode 263 The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live! In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris talk Jean Machi in Boston, Ian Desmond surging, Marcus Stroman throwing, Howie Kendrick replacements, Chris Davis, Carlos Gonzalez, and Kyle Schwarber raking, Michael Taylor’s intrigue, and Eno’s Tuesday piece. Relevant pieces: Eno on Batted […]

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0:00.0

The Welcome to episode 263 of The Sleeper and the Bus. It is your Tuesday edition and I am Paul Spore. Joined as always on Tuesdays by of the which one San Francisco or Oakland?

0:32.8

It's Astros Giants.

0:34.6

Oh nice.

0:35.6

The Astros last week though, so I don't know what I'm going to do today.

0:39.6

Maybe try to talk to Brandon Crawford about his power explosion and his hair.

0:45.0

Yeah, I was actually gonna maybe ask about the product.

0:49.0

That's interesting. I was I was joking but I'm cool with it if you throw him in there. I was joking, but I'm cool with it.

0:53.0

I love Brandon Crawford.

0:55.0

He's having a great year, somebody I was really high on, panning out very nicely.

0:59.0

Still not really getting the credit that he deserves at shortstop as far as I'm concerned on the fantasy landscape.

1:04.6

I think everyone's kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop and we're now, you know, four plus months in and

1:11.1

he's got an 820 oPS at some point you know 19 homers you start you

1:16.7

start trusting it and you know he had this history where he was kind of

1:20.0

of raking against lefties oddly oddly enough, because he is a lefty himself.

1:25.6

But this year he's really turned the tide and righties are feeling the brunt of that 505

1:29.8

slug against them.

1:30.9

So yeah, I'd love to hear you get some stuff from Crawford. Very interesting

1:36.0

player there and of course the Giants have interesting players and maybe the last time you talked

1:40.4

to Houston did you get a chance to speak to Korea at all? I did and I pitched

1:46.2

a story on him to ESPN so my ESPN story this week will be Carlos Korea just being the I shouldn't do that for the whole piece but the one thing that people might be interested in is the fact that he

2:06.8

He cited as one of his major adjustments coming into this season was

2:18.3

Really working on bringing the hands through in tight and being able to drive the inside pitch and he says he does things like sets up a tee really close to his body and and tries to get a bunch of

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