Hello and welcome to episode 1511 of the Sleeper in the Bus. It is Friday, May 29th. I am your host, Paul Spore, joined today by Justin Mason. Justin, how's it going, man? I'm sick, but I'm here. I'm playing through it. You're important. I appreciate that. We sat you yesterday and you and Joe weren't available, so we were out yesterday. But we didn't IL you. That's why we didn't want to make the lineup change. You know, anytime someone gets sick, y'all, we love to do the IL comparisons here. So, yeah, we didn't I yell you. We're going to hold you. I think you're probably going to miss one of the games this weekend. I doubt you play both games. I just, I don't see it. So we'll see if you play Sunday. As soon as this is over, yeah, as soon as this is over, I'm going back to pets like this. But if, but if you miss Friday and Saturday, I might have to cut you on Sunday night. I'm sorry. I'm just totally understand. Got to be real. So we'll be on monitoring you. We are going to talk two-star pitchers.

We've got another interesting board this week, not as voluminous as last week, but a lot of interesting names. And then, of course, we got the auto starts here that you don't need us to tell you about. Ken Schlitler, by the way, must have gotten Merck because he was the top of our list last week. So his two-step must have gotten pushed. I don't remember that or what caused that there. But Schlitler, de Grom, Chase Burns,

Kyle Harrison, Joe Ryan, Kevin Gosman, Jose Soriano, Emmett Sheehan, Michael Soroka, Landon Rup and

Emerson Hancock. And he beefs or beaves there with those guys being auto starts right now.

And we talked about Rube a couple weeks ago where we said, hey, he's hot, so you got to keep it going.

I was thinking maybe Hammer So Roka might catch your eye there as maybes.

But you feel pretty good about those being auto started right now?

I think so. I think until they run into bumps, your problem.

Multiple bumps, something that makes it look like they're about to fall.

I mean, I guess, I guess the one we could discuss a little bit and just do a little check-in

on is Emmett Sheehan.

Okay.

You know, Sheehan's obviously been better than he was earlier in the start of the season right um

but you know he still has been uneven he has thrown six innings into the last three starts but prior

that it was you know and the one start we only through four like i i wouldn't say he's

necessarily a must start at this point i think he's probably closer to that should start

tier of a guy that you're definitely can i change your mind on it for next week yes change your mind

on it for next week only 25th and 23rd ranked offenses.

I think that puts Sheehan in the slam start.

But your general point about his skills, right, right, and then the win probability is also very high.

But your general point about like, we're not out of the woods here.

And, you know, this was not a bad month. You mentioned the two quality starts in the last three, but he was bad in the other one. And then decent against Atlanta, even though he only went four and two thirds. And then a bad four and two thirds against St. Louis. So if you add it all up, the five starts for May for Emmett Sheehan, it is a 462 ERA. 31Ks and 25 and a third is nice, but your overarching point there was be careful.

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