Sami (@Believe_Sami) and Eric (@SamskiNYC) welcome Eno Sarris (@enosarris) live from the Oakland A’s protest game to discuss his blend of traditional sports journalism and fantasy analysis. Then they dive into the Stuff+ metric, how to use it, and which pitchers Stuff+ may be over or underselling. 

Players Discussed: 

Tyler Glasnow

Taj Bradley

Chris Bassitt

Graham Ashcraft

Clarke Schmidt

Tanner Houck

Kyle Bradish

Zach Eflin

Michael Kopech

MacKenzie Gore

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Sami (@Believe_Sami) and Eric (@SamskiNYC) blend fantasy baseball analysis with fantasy baseball therapy as they discuss personal biases, blind spots, and why we create such attachments to players on our teams. They end with a therapy-style breakthrough on the best way to approach FAAB.

Through all of this, they’ll discuss Brent Rooker, Nathan Eovaldi, Pablo Lopez, Jake Fraley, Triston Casas, Jake Burger, Matthew Liberatore, and many more.

Rundown

• How aware are you of your own biases and are biases just a result of managing out of fear?

• What are your blind spots? Can we control our blindspots if we know they’re there? 

• Why do we have such blind spots for rookies? We just continually expect them to pop and we hold them too long when not many really hit.

• Is there a more efficient waiver wire strategy that caters to the long-term nature of fantasy baseball?

Sami (@Believe_Sami) and Eric (@SamskiNYC) go back to their roots and just talk baseball. They cover why some pitchers can be ineffective with elite stuff, why pitchers made suddenly lose feel for pitches, and what leads to hitting slumps. Along they way, they discuss a handful of slumping players and discuss when to trust what you see and when to use "the data."

RUNDOWN

- We discuss potentially coaching our kids, even though our kids are too young to be coached

- Sami is pissed that he went against his gut and dropped Bryson Stott. When do you trust what you see over the data points? If you limit yourself, which data should you use?

- Jack Suwinski tangent on how to use Statcast rolling windows

Does This Guy Suck?

Pitchers 

Graham Ashcraft 

Dylan Cease

Domingo German

MacKenzie Gore

Gavin Stone

Sandy Alcantara

Hitters 

Willy Adames 

Jorge Mateo

Brandon Marsh

Brenton Doyle