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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 941 – Summer Studs: Hitter Edition

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Paul highlights 4 summer breakout hitters he has a strong gut feel on

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 941 of The Sleeper In The Bust.

0:21.0

It is Monday June 14th on your host Paul Spore and I'm flying solo today and I got a fun

0:26.3

one on tap.

0:28.0

What I'm talking about today are summer breakouts.

0:31.7

Now the spin on this is that these do not all have untouchable statistical backing for

0:43.8

why I think they're going to break out.

0:45.4

In fact, quite the opposite by design.

0:49.0

It's more of a scenario where I kind of have a gut feel on them and I'm kind of going off

0:55.1

of that gut feel as viewing these guys as acquisitions in leagues that allow you to make

1:00.7

trades, which I know most of y'all play not everybody's in NFBC, which is a no trading

1:06.2

format.

1:07.2

So you guys can go out and try to acquire these folks and these guys aren't going to pop

1:10.0

up on the wire.

1:12.0

And we're at a point here where we just kind of pass the 60 game threshold for most teams.

1:17.9

And so in fact, all four of the guys that I've picked here have at least 62 games played.

1:23.2

And we want to look at that and say, you know, this that and the others going on, why

1:29.1

are you predicting a breakout yet at the same time we regularly talk about how, you know,

1:36.5

60 game sample last year, for example, is not predictive is not super predictive.

1:43.3

It's not it's not super steady in making sweeping determinations.

1:48.6

So I do find it weird at times that we can look back on something and properly contextualize

1:55.8

it as a sample of value or not.

1:59.9

But in the in season, I think we struggle to do that.

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