Hello and welcome to episode 1460 of The Sleeper in the Bust.

It is Thursday, January 8th of the new 2026 year.

I am your host, Paul Spore, back in the saddle talking with my boy Justin Mason.

Justin, happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

How you doing?

I'm doing pretty well.

It's been a while, man.

I've been off pretty much since the AFL pod.

And glad to be back. We got rankings up, put out a big update on my SP rankings. All of our

first run positional rankings are up right now. Most have at least one update. So go ahead and

check that out. You've been doing some pods. You and Jason got some done. You and Joe got one done. So things are happening. We're back. We've turned the calendar over. I'm amped. And today starts our position previews. We're going to get into Catcher. Could be a part one of two with Catcher because it is a deep position. And you and I both like to nerd out on this position. We are like Bubba in that respect. Our boy Bubba in the Bloom is a big catchers fan and I'm always fist pumping when he's saying that because I like catchers too because I love two catcher leagues and so I love getting into the depth of catchers. So we might not get into that depth until a part two because we do have about a 40, 45 minute time window here. But let's dive

right in with catchers. And let's start with the King, one of the greatest stories of the 2025 season. And all it's going to do is, is breed the questions of, well, what can you do for me now? Isn't that the way it is in fantasy sports? You reach the mountain and it's like, well, now go higher. Cal Raleigh is the number one guy by

himself for obvious reasons. He had a monstrous season where the power exploded, but so did

everything else. It was just a dream year. Where does he go from here? Surely he won't get better,

but how much worse will he get Justin? Are we going back to 2024, where it was 34 and 100, but a 220 average for

Cal Raleigh, 27 points lower than 2025? Or do you do the classic in between 24 and 25? Where are you on

Raleigh? I kind of feel like the classic in between 24 and 25 is the right answer. It feels like it.

Now, I want to say, like, in terms of the batting average, the floor is always going to be

low on a guy like crawley.

He can swing and miss too much.

He doesn't make a lot of his own contact.

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