Finally got the approval notice from iTunes that TINSTAAPP is good to go! It should be searchable in no more than a couple of days. Here is the link.
Tuesday: 05.7.2013
TINSTAAPP: Episode 2
Welcome to the second episode of TINSTAAPP: There Is No Such Thing As A Pitching Podcast! Hey we have a name! Everything is neatly cataloged so you can decide what segment best fits the time you have available. We should be in iTunes soon, too. Just awaiting their approval.
In the meantime you can add the RSS feed into your podcatcher: http://tinstaapp.libsyn.com/rss
- 0:00 – 19:23 Intro (19’ intros is how you have a four-hour podcast, folks!)
- 19:24 – 36:50 Hyun-Jin Ryu
- 36:51 – 45:45 Kris Medlen
- 45:46 – 57:13 Derek Holland
- 57:14 – 1:06:09 Fernando Rodney
- 1:06:10 – 1:13:11 David Price
- 1:13:12 – 1:21:27 Roy Halladay
- 1:21:28 – 1:38:16 Marco Estrada
- 1:38:17 – 1:48:37 Tony Cingrani
- 1:48:38 – 2:00:44 Ricky Romero
- 2:00:45 – 3:23:32 Our Game of the Week: Homer Bailey at Lance Lynn
- 3:23:33 – 3:47:15 Picking Next Week’s GotW
- 3:47:16 – 3:50:24 Close
Show Notes:
Tuesday: 04.30.2013
A New Pitching Podcast – Pilot Episode
From the gentlemen who brought you the 2013 Starting Pitching Guide comes a brand new podcast dedicated to… wait for it … pitching!!! We started discussing the notion of this podcast all the way back in the winter when we first linked up to discuss the guide. Then after the success of the SP Guide and just how well we got along, it was a no-brainer to follow through with that original idea and thus a pilot episode is born. For those of you who like long-form podcasts, you’re going to be drooling over this one.
That said I think I’ve come up with a way for it to appeal to even those who don’t like long-form. If you want to stretch the podcast out throughout your work week, I have labeled all of our segments by timestamp so you can pick & choose what you want to listen to as it fits your available time. We don’t yet have a name for the show, but I think we’ve decided one and once it’s set in stone, we’ll be in iTunes. We will also be setting up the obligatory email, Facebook page, and Twitter accounts, too. Until then, we would love your emails at thespguide@gmail.com for questions you would like answered on the show.
This is entirely a starting pitcher episode, but it’s a pitching podcast at large so if you have questions about relievers, that works. We do inject a little fantasy baseball talk into the show, but we’re not fielding any “should I trade for pitcher x or cut pitcher z?” questions. My other show, The Towers of Power Fantasy Hours, is fantasy-related and that would be the avenue for those types of questions. We also encourage you to watch our Game of the Week discussed starting at the 2:55:05 mark so you can follow along as we discuss it on next week’s episode.
Without further ado, our pilot episode:
Download the file here. (right click, save as)
- 0:00 – 19:30 Intro
- 19:31 – 31:57 Jarrod Parker
- 31:58 – 38:11 Brett Anderson
- 38:12 – 47:18 Jeremy Hellickson
- 47:19 – 54:42 Matt Harvey
- 54:43 – 1:08:07 Yu Darvish
- 1:08:08 – 1:16:32 Clay Buchholz
- 1:16:33 – 1:26:15 Jon Lester
- 1:26:16 – 1:37:44 Alex Cobb
- 1:37:45 – 1:49:03 Declining Velo in April (Verlander, Sabathia, Price)
- 1:49:02 – 1:59:11 Strasburg & the Nats
- 1:59:12 – 2:17:20 Samardzija v. Latos
- 2:17:21 – 2:55:04 Our Game of the Week: Lincecum v. Cashner
- 2:55:05 – 3:07:36 Picking Next Week’s GotW
- 3:07:37 – 3:14:42 Close
Show Notes:
Monday: 04.8.2013
Podcast Monday
Are you sitting at your desk thinking, “I wanna hear MORE of Paul’s voice, after all he only does a 2+ hour podcast each week!”?
You’re not alone and I have just the remedy for you.
- First off, here is the latest episode of the aforementioned podcast I co-host with Jason Collette.
- Here is my regular Monday morning spot with Ragz & The Bartender on 95.7 The Fan Michiana in Indiana.
- Next up, I was a guest cohost of the ESPN Fantasy Focus with Matthew Berry.
- And then this evening I appeared on The Fantasy Insiders Show w/Joel Henard.
Listen to them all back-to-back-to-back-to-back for best results!!!!
Thursday: 03.28.2013
My Work: Around the ‘Net
It’s been a bit quiet around here since the release of the SP Guide, but not because I’ve just been sitting on my butt doing nothing (my full DVR can attest). Check me out at these various outlets:
Baseball Prospectus:
- Matthew Kory and I answered three questions about six mid-tier teams (Bos, Tor, Phi, Cle, Oak, & NYM) for an annual series at the site.
- I contributed to this week’s Lineup Card discussing a familiar disappointment in a new place.
- I did an insane 5 hours on Starting Pitchers split over two podcasts: one with Jason Collette and Doug Thorburn, the other with just Doug. (BTW, we’re recording this week’s episode tonight!)
- More pitcher madness at BP as I did the Tiers for the American League and National League.
- Are you tired of pitching pieces? I’ve got three underrated arms for you to target this spring.
- I wrote this piece on five pitchers with unclear roles heading into spring five weeks ago and now you can see how their roles have evolved in the interim.
GuySpeed:
- Here are my NL Bold Predictions for 2013.
- Here is my NL East Preview for 2013.
Daily Fantasy Sports Network:
- My debut piece over there covered the worst pitching staffs for 2013.
Betting Dork Podcast:
- I appeared on the 2/26 and 3/7 episodes discussing starting pitchers (obv!) with my friend Gill Alexander.
Fantasy 15 Fox Sports Podcast:
- I appeared on the March 19th episode of John Halpin’s new Fox Sports podcast.
Fantasy Fix Podcast:
- I appeared on the March 14th episode with Brett Talley.
Tuesday: 02.26.2013
Podcast Appearance: Minor League Report
Last week I appeared on the Minor League Report with Jay Burnham, Eric Little, Sam Siegel, and Mike Passanisi to talk some minor leaguers in fantasy baseball. Their crew is heavily involved in minor league baseball so they know what they’re talking about and if you’re someone who cares about the minors, you should be listening to their show. Click the picture below to access the iTunes feed of The MLR.
I’ll have an update regarding the release date of the SP Guide very soon. I’ve been spending just about every waking moment on the guide now for several weeks. We’re in the homestretch and it’s going to take some more sleepless nights if I’m going to hit the 3/1 target release date. By the way, the time spent on the guide these last couple of weeks is why content here has been scant, but once you see the guide I hope you understand why I had to make the tradeoff. And more importantly, I hope you end up thinking it was worth it.
Friday: 02.22.2013
MLB At Bat 13
I was going to do a post letting everyone know that At Bat’s 2013 iteration was available, but my BP colleague Maury Brown already did all the fantastic leg work so I’ll point you to his preview of the app instead:
Biz of Baseball Previews At Bat
Meanwhile, after a pair of fake fake games yesterday as the Red Sox split up to take on a pair of colleges, we get real fake games today with four Spring Training games on the docket. This is a beautiful site:
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Elsewhere on the net:
I wrote about five interesting pitchers to follow this Spring Training as they battle to be a part of the Opening Day 25.
I had Mike Gianella as a co-host, filling in for Jason Collette, and Bret Sayre as a guest on this week’s Towers of Power podcast. Gianella and Sayre are both new additions to the BP fantasy team for 2013.
Tuesday: 02.12.2013
LABR and Radio and Pods, Oh My!
Plenty of non-PaulSporer.com goings on lately including:
- Tonight is the LABR mixed league draft. It’s my first “industry expert league”. I have done mocks for magazines before, but never a full league. Jason and I will be co-owning, but I’ll have the reins tonight at the draft with J out for family duty. If there was ever a reason to miss, it’s family stuff! If you’ve listened to the podcast at all, though, we have the same brain so it doesn’t really matter if one of us couldn’t make it. We got saddled with the 14th pick which might not be so bad when you really think about it. There’s the top three, another handful going in that four to seven range, and then a giant cluster of like-valued guys so picking near the end of that clump and then again quickly in the second round won’t be so bad. If you want to follow the draft live this evening, you can do so here. I’m fairly certain Jennifer Lawrence will be following along in the chatroom cheering me on. I mean, it’s whatever.
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- I did the first of what will be a regular Monday morning appearance on the “Ragz and The Bartender Show” which originates out of South Bend, IN. You can listen to the podcasted cuts here and listen live every Monday morning here (Listen Live in the upper left).
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- In addition to our regular podcast, the Towers of Power Fantasy Hour, I’ve appeared on another BP podcast twice in the last couple of weeks. Effectively Wild is doing their team-by-team previews and I did the Tigers one (obv) plus I contributed to the Cleveland Indians one. I’ll be on for the Nationals and Phillies in the future as well. BTW, I’d bump my Indians win projection by about 3-4 games with the Michael Bourn signing. I could reasonably go high since it’s the adding of him and subtraction of Drew Stubbs, but I’ll stick w/3-4. Speaking of these two podcasts, this probably shouldn’t surprise you because I’m a titan:
Meanwhile, here are some random things interesting me at the moment:
-Between Two Ferns Oscar Buzz Part 1, and Part 2: SO GOOD!!!! Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Bradley Cooper, Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, and of course Zack himself. Just so much greatness here.
- Peanuts
- Underwater
- Girls, Girls
- Baseball
- Compilations and another (some overlap) and 49 at once (yes, at once)
- The Background
- The Actual Song
- Maybe just Google it & absorb at your leisure
-Texas being awesome & Beyonce making a semi-duck face look cute as hell
-Jennifer Lawrence is the best. No one is more real during her interviews
-Pitchers & Catchers reporting all over the MLB:
Friday: 01.25.2013
Productive Outs – Ep. 34 (feat. Paul Sporer)
The brilliant minds behind Productive Outs, Riley Breckenridge and Ian Miller (REAL rockstars!! Thrice, Kowloon Walled City), were kind enough to invite me on for some spoken words and it was wondrous. If you’re not familiar with the Productive Outs Tumblr (which I linked at the beginning of this post), their Twitter feed, or their Prodcast, then your life isn’t as good as it could be just yet. These are two of my favorite people whom I’ve yet to meet in real life and I commend all of their doings to you.
Friday: 01.18.2013
New Podcast Out
BP-fest here of late (which is freeee today!), but Jason has posted the latest episode of our podcast. This week we spoke to Todd Zola of Mastersball.com centering our conversation on player valuation and some of the best ways to approach the process. It was a very good discussion. Additionally we discussed the three-way trade between Seattle-Oakland-Washington, Mike Napoli‘s contract finally getting done, and Matt Harrison‘s extension. We read some emails and discussed some favorite reads catching up after missing that segment for a few weeks. Stupidly, I forgot to include the Rafael Soriano signing. It’s probably because I was too focused on trying to make Manti Te’o girlfriend jokes so here are my thoughts on the signing:
I love it for Washington. It’s costly, sure, but they’re in win-now mode. Soriano now gives the Nats a ridiculous three-headed monster that they can use to shorten games to six innings on many nights. Soriano joins Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen to form the lockdown triumvirate (not to mention Craig Stammen kicking butt in his first full season as a reliever) with Soriano likely getting the first crack at the closer’s job if for no other reason than his salary. Not that he isn’t every bit as capable as the other two.
The last time Soriano was in the National League, he posted a 33 percent strikeout rate in a career-high 75.3 innings adding 27 saves as well. Craig Kimbrel (50 percent in 2012) and Aroldis Chapman (44 percent) think fanning just a third of the batters you face is cute, but for a mere mortal it is fantastic. Known as injury prone, health has eluded Soriano a bit over his entire career, but he has been a 60+ inning pitcher in three of the last four years and five of seven so he seems to have outrun the legitimacy of that tag in his late-20s and early-30s.
Sorry to those with Storen in keeper leagues. Clippard and Storen will be among the more expensive middle relievers in NL-only/deep mixed leagues and they will deliver plenty of value even if they only end up with a save or two all year. Meanwhile back on Soriano’s former team, David Robertson‘s value ticks upward again as the incumbent behind a now 43-year old Mariano Rivera returning from a torn ACL.
As for the articles referenced:
