Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 9 segments
Welcome back to another episode of Benched with Bubba. On BwB EP 858, Bubba (@bdentrek) will be joined by Paul Sporer (@Sporer) to discuss May starting pitcing standouts. Hosted by Simplecast, an…
Paul SporerGuestBubbaHostAnd welcome back everybody to another episode of Benched With Bubba, episode 858.
Gonna talk some starting pitchers, some good, the bad, and kind of ugly in the month of May using the FanGraphs Player Rater.
And in order to help me discuss about 20 pitchers or so on tonight's episode is a friend of ours, a friend of yours, a friend of the show.
You can find him, of course, on the Sleeper and The Bust.
He's one of the top, I'd say top five, I was gonna say top 10, top five mustache people in all of baseball.
How you doing, my friend?
Thank you so much for having me on, and thank you for the compliment on the mustache.
I'm not sure I agree, but I'm gonna take the compliment for sure and I'm gonna run with it.
It's coming.
It's, it's, it's strong, man.
It, it is a, a strong, strong to be up there with man.
Trying to fill, trying to fill it out, you know? Just let it, let her keep growing.
Just let, let it breathe, baby.
Let it breathe.
Um, before we get started, I, I know most people, if all that listen to this show, know who you are, but let everybody know what you got going on as you're always busy.
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And welcome back everybody to another episode of Benched With Bubba, episode 858.
Gonna talk some starting pitchers, some good, the bad, and kind of ugly in the month of May using the FanGraphs Player Rater.
And in order to help me discuss about 20 pitchers or so on tonight's episode is a friend of ours, a friend of yours, a friend of the show.
You can find him, of course, on the Sleeper and The Bust.
He's one of the top, I'd say top five, I was gonna say top 10, top five mustache people in all of baseball.
How you doing, my friend?
Thank you so much for having me on, and thank you for the compliment on the mustache.
I'm not sure I agree, but I'm gonna take the compliment for sure and I'm gonna run with it.
It's coming.
It's, it's, it's strong, man.
It, it is a, a strong, strong to be up there with man.
Trying to fill, trying to fill it out, you know? Just let it, let her keep growing.
Just let, let it breathe, baby.
Let it breathe.
Um, before we get started, I, I know most people, if all that listen to this show, know who you are, but let everybody know what you got going on as you're always busy.