Hello and welcome to episode 1186 of The Sleeper and The Bust.

It is Thursday, June 15th.

I'm your host Paul Spore, joined today by not only Justin Mason, but also a special

guest ESPN Senior Writer, Tristan Cockroft, gentlemen, how's it going this afternoon?

Going quite well. It's a lovely day. It's good to see you guys. Good to talk some baseball

with some very, very smart baseball people. It's great to have you on. Justin, how you doing?

I'm sweating Tyler Wells right now. That's all I'm doing. I'm sweating Tyler. I got on the background.

So for those of you like the me watching Michael Copac get destroyed live. Oh my god.

I'm really hoping that doesn't happen right here. Let me ask you all something.

You're going to be happy in a second, by the way. Sorry, I spoil it or not. But when you guys don't

start somebody, how invested are you in the start? When we start? Yeah, but like let's say it's

not just a standard streamer that you don't plan on keeping, but you like him, but you decided

to take the start off. How hard are you like? Man, I still hope it's good. I kind of want to be

wrong. So I can trust this guy more. Or do you just want me proven right? And then for example,

if Tyler Wells gets blown up here, you're like, Oh, I should have sat him against Toronto. Like,

where do you stand? I'll start with you, Tristan. When you sit a guy that you like,

what's your investment in that start? I'm going to be honest, Paul. That's a good question because

I had not thought about that before now. I don't deeply think about guys who I wasn't already

on going in. And that's kind of a handful of players a week. So if it's somebody who I wrote

bench and evaluate him or watched this guy just got called up, the most recent was Andrew Abbott.

Andrew Abbott was one who loved the matchup widely available in our game. It was very hard to

make the case to use him. So there were cases I didn't do it. And I was rooting for him

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