Hello and welcome to episode 1496 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

It's Monday, April 13th.

I'm your host, Paul Spore, joined today by Justin and Joe, gentlemen.

How's it going?

It's going great, guys.

We haven't recorded in, I'll say, like a week and a half, which is a sad thing because

I love talking to you guys, but I feel like it's almost a good thing at the same time because April content, it's very tough to give it on Friday advice. We're sorry we missed, but what the hell is there to really talk? It's hard. It's hard. I've done a couple of shows. I did one on fantasy pros with Justin. I did one with Derek Fran Riper last week and we're trying to give some actionable advice, but it's good to let things settle in. Now we've got, you know, about 10% of the season. So I think it's a good time to start really digging in here. Yeah. No, I totally agree. Justin, how are you doing? I'm doing all right. Still fighting is cold and trying to do my taxes and revamping the Discord for those who didn't hear the end of the podcast.

Very nice.

We're ending the Patreon, but that in turn is allowing me to just kind of open up the Discord to everybody.

So there'll be a link in the show notes for the Discord if you want to join.

And kind of spent, I was up until 3 o'clock in the morning just like creating channels and categories and things like that. So I'm dumb. Instead of going to bed, that's what you did. Glad you did it, but maybe you could have done it after some sleep. Who knows? But you did it. It's done. And now people can jump in there.

We did find something to talk about today. And once again, our buddy and colleague Mike Podhors are helping us out here using a couple of things from his recent pieces because he's always

looking for interesting content to cover and as such a peer stats guy. It can be difficult on him

too because of all the small

samples, but found some metrics that actually have some, uh, some validity or at least something

to look at early on.

We're going to be looking today, not just the opposite of the last episode, Justin and I did.

Um, for the hitters today, we're going to do max EV risers.

We did bat speed risers, not doing bat speed decliners right now. We're to do max EV risers we did bat speed risers not doing bat speed

decliner right now we're doing max EV risers but then we are doing the opposite on the pitcher

side we did VLO risers and today we're doing VLO decliners you can find the links to both of

Mike's pieces in the show notes just you just click on max EV risers that'll link you there

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