2020 All-Stars

Episode 2 of the 2015 season… honestly, not much to talk about. But we somehow filled up 45 minutes with nonsense and misinformation. There was even talk about BJ Upton’s name change. Closerpocalypse is upon us once again. We discuss a lot of Dodger news including the “big” injury to Kenley Jansen. We are relatively worried about this injury. Basically, we just don’t want to have to pay for Jansen when we could get someone cheaper in a later round. We have no idea who the replacement is but if you need a name, we went with Brandon League. Also in Dodger land, we discuss Greinke’s oiling his elbow.

We discuss a bunch of deep league guys like Mike Moustakas, Billy Butler, and James Loney. Is Steven Souza legit? We wander around this question for a bit and about the Tampa Bay’s offense in general. We were struggling to talk about anything. We end off with a Dalton Pompei vs Anthony Gose vs Jarrod Dyson in a “last round speed only” guy.

Enjoy it!

Season 3 Episode 02 (46:20)

We are back for the 2015 season! We start off the year with a discussion of sleepers and busts. We love everyone who plays on Chicago. We don’t love anyone in Seattle. There are big names that we don’t love and some no-names that we do. But that’s pretty much par for the course around here.

We even discuss coaching changes and bringing in the walls in Citi Field. We had a plan but it is clear we need Spring Training to get back into the groove.

Also, just wanted to tell you all that we’re going to try to be more active on Twitter this year. Check us out at @2020AllStars. If you have any questions, we’ll try to answer them all there.

Cheers!

Season 3 Episode 01 (58:35)

Alright, you waited. Then you waited some more. Then? Well, we finally made a podcast! But it wasn’t what we said it was about because we waited so long. Instead we discuss the offseason moves and how we predict those will affect things next year.

On a fun programming note, this was the first podcast Todd and I did in person. Not sure when the next one will be but this was a good experience. Also, I posted this 3 weeks after we made it. But luckily nothing has changed in that time.

Season 2 Episode 26 (52:11)

We are at the endgame. Lots of keeper implications, a lot of discussion about next year… back to our roots looking towards the future. Some of the names that we mention are Josh Hamilton, Jake Arrieta, Anthony Rendon, and Jorge Soler.

Next week, we are going to have our yearly top 30 draft. Thanks for sticking with us all year.

Season 2 Episode 25 (51:56)

Short, sweet. That’s what you’ve got this week. We shortly discuss the lack of news besides Closerpocalypse, then we move on to Closerpocalypse. That’s it. Enjoy!

Season 2 Episode 24 (31:24)

What the heck is happening to pitchers? They aren’t getting hurt anymore, but a lot of big names are getting hit hard lately. We discuss whether you should worry about these guys and throw out some names of guys that you might want to consider in lieu of the bigger names.

Speaking of big names, we delve into the topic of name-value vs. production-value. There are a lot big names that we think you should avoid unless you can get a good value on them. Again, we don’t think these guys will kill your team, but for the price, you can find better value. The alternatives are bandied about for your listening pleasure.

Thanks for sticking with us this far and hope to see you guys for the rest of the season.

Tschüssi!

Season 2 Episode 23

He is who we thought he was! Jorge Soler! He came. He saw. He popped a homer. We discuss Jorge Soler’s comps. We also talk about Kennys Vargas and find some really interesting comps for him.

Then we get into our first semi-heated debate of the 2020 Allstars. We have our own opinions on a certain LA Dodger and can’t seem to agree on how good he is.

Then we discuss some of the trades that have gone down and how we are just not as smart as some of the better GMs out there.

Season 2 Episode 22 (47:58)

Well, the reprieve is over. Closerpocalypse is BACK! We saw a lot of shaky performances this week and a lot of potential injuries in the backend of bullpens this week. We go through all of them and give you our thoughts on who we like going forward. Also for those people playing in leagues that give you points for incredible facial hair, we have some insights for you as well.

Next we talk about some of the pitching injuries. Should you hold onto these guys or are there other names out there?

Last we talk about a few guys that have been hot and a few guys whose ship may have sailed (at least for this year).

Alright, remember to check us out on twitter @2020Allstars. Tschüssi!

Season 2 Episode 21

This week we have a ton of news. We start off with some chatter about future 2020 allstars. The big name is Javy Baez. Could he get 10 more homers the rest of the way? Could he strikeout 30% of the time while doing so? We discuss these questions and all the other Cubs prospects.

Then it was a week of injuries. Hanley Ramirez went to the DL. The news on other guys wasn’t good. We discusss possible replacements, including guys that are coming off the DL.

Season 2 Episode 20 (58:16)

We chat about the trade deadline, the new injuries, and kids you can look forward to for the future. Goldy, McCutchen, man… these are first rounders! Son of a… Ok, we move onto the trade implications quickly and end up with a discussion of who could get the next call into the bigs.

Season 2 Episode 19 (35:48)