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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 419 – Slotting Sluggers

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🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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1/19/17 The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live! Follow us on Twitter @sporer @enosarris @jasoncollette @paulkastava  Leading Off: Question of the Day (1:20) Slotting Sluggers: Are there spots for the remaining power bats? [Eno’s piece] Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play Dan Straily traded to MIA (20:00) Neftali Feliz to MIL (29:50) Breaking news […]

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Welcome to episode 4 19th. I'm your host Paul Spoor joined by

0:24.6

Enoseris. You know, how's it going? It's going good. We are now midway through January.

0:32.8

Before you know it, spring training is going to be here.

0:36.4

There's been pictures and catches reporting to camp.

0:38.4

We're almost through the winter.

0:40.4

It's great.

0:41.4

However, there's still a lot of people to be signed. We had some

0:46.3

signings. Jason and I talked about them earlier this week, you know Jose

0:50.1

Bautista sign, Michael Saunders sign, but there's still a decent number of quality players.

0:55.7

The Major League Home Run Leader from 2016 has not signed, you know. And so as close as it feels to finally getting through the winter and

1:07.6

and getting ready to have some more baseball, it's conversely it still feels a little bit far away because there's so much to be done on the free agent market in fact

1:18.3

You looked a little bit at some of that

1:21.2

Very recently so we're gonna dive right in here with our

1:25.2

question of the day are there spots for the remaining power back?

1:29.8

Yeah you know it's the larger question or the trend question is whether or not we, you know, we've gone too far in, you know, sort of going back against the trend of overvaluing power.

1:45.0

Have we gone, has the pendulum gone too far

1:47.0

and we don't value power enough?

1:49.0

And are there too many free agents out there?

1:51.0

However, you know, I think if you really look at the list with a

1:56.7

discerning eye and you throw in handedness and you look at depth charts.

2:00.6

What if I don't want to have a discerning eye? What if I want to be willy-nilly, perhaps? Well, then you can join the millions

2:08.7

of other people, especially on Twitter. Can I get, I'll change my profile to an egg and then I'll just be willy nilly.

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