You're going to be. Hello and

welcome episode 832 of The Sleeper and the Bust. It is, July 20th. I'm your host Paul Sport and I'm flying solo today. It's been a while since we've had a solo episode.

And I'm talking pitching today. Put out my latest rankings back on Friday. I said we'd have either an article or

podcast covering those and this is that podcast. So basically I'm going to go over a bunch of the movers and shakers up and down just talk about some players in general.

I think I'll start with the outliers, the big movers up, big movers down, and then kind of get into some general stuff.

Or some more talk about different players regardless of where they move necessarily. But let's start with the big movers.

Some of them are obvious.

We'll get into that quickly.

Alex Wood was the biggest mover, moving up 64 spots from 127 to 63.

I think just the security of having a spot me knowing exactly what's going on with him

It's obviously pitching with the Dodgers. He's gonna be a part of their rotation

Now we know what's up and honestly with regards to wood it's

never really about performance. Like his I don't want to say that his performance is unimpeachable, but it's a lot like his former teammate

Hunjan Ryu, wherein he's pretty much always good unless there's an injury concern.

You know, he threw 35 and two-thirds last year and it was bad.

5.80-R-A-140 whip, but again, there was an injury. If you look beyond that, if you just add up

2013 through 2018 for Alex Lloyd, he's a 329-121 E-R-A-Wip combo with a 22% strikeout rate over the course of 803 innings.

I think we can comfortably kind of ignore last year as far as being indicative of skill. I mean he had a 2.8 Homer per 9 for crying

out loud so I'm not too worried about that I think a clean bill of health which is

what we've got right now from Alex Wood, and a return to a team that

he's had a lot of success with that draws a lot of success out of their pitchers has me feeling

relatively confident about Alex Wood.

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