Hello and welcome to episode 1509 of The Sleeper and the Bust. It is Thursday, May 21st. I'm your host, Paul Sporer. Join today by my boys, Justin and Joe. What's up, guys? Good to be back, fellas. Life's got to cut in the way recently, but it's good to be together all three of us once again. Justin, how you doing? I'm tired. I feel that.

I do feel that too.

I've been watching the Tigers.

Had to watch them again today today and they tire me out, y'all. It's been really, really bad. But Joe, it is great to have you back. And we got a fun little topic today. You know, our show is called The Sleeper and the Bus. So I actually found a little creative way to weave that in here. in here. I'm getting on the Play-Rater, is something I am want to do. It is fun place to kind of hang out and, you know, look over things. I know Nick Pollock, not the biggest fan of them at the end of the season, that they do tend to be kind of a volume meter. You know, who lasted the longest? I get that, right? And in season, there's some, something to that too. More volume's going to push you up for sure. But what I'm using it for today is to look at some of the guys that have been off to these excellent starts here. Guys, you know Memorial Days on Monday, by the way? We're almost in June. Like the summer is here. So we've got some meat on the bone now. We're really looking at some samples. And these guys are sitting up high at their respective positions very much unexpectedly.

And so I want you guys to compare them against somebody who is down the list a bit.

Sometimes quite a bit. Others are a little bit closer, but maybe they're facing somebody tougher too.

You'll understand as we get to it. And we're going to go around the horn with it. Catcher first, third. We'll do the two corners

together and then second short and then outfield. Let's go ahead and dive right into it. Before you do,

can I just say? Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. You were talking about Nick does not liking the player

rater because it's so volume dependent. I just want to flat out say I disagree with Nick.

Like, oh, volume matters.

Like volume is important.

Oh, no, no, it does.

Volume like, like I understand why like, but then just say this guy played more.

I think, I think it feels like it can be misleading when somebody finished it.

Because then like, I think, but here's here's here's my argument against

it right because against it being misleading as marcus simian takes no nope hit the gym baby uh so i

thought i thought i thought he said givaldipe right there i was watching the same thing you watch i'm

like yeah oh he just missed it uh no because like I think the part that gets neglected about the argument against the player raider is forgetting that health is a skill.

That's true.

I think that's fair.

And I think that like all the time we're like searching for like, oh, this guy could be the number one player in fantasy if he just stays healthy.

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