The FAAB Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Scott Jenstad

Strategy Section

• FAAB / Waiver Wire
  • How has the waiver wire changed over the past few seasons?
    • Is it more important or less important?
  • When to enter FAAB during the week.
  • Looking at “your” team.
  • How playing with a partner helps with waiver wire pickups.
  • What to look for when picking up players?
  • What to look for when dropping players?
  • How much FAAB should you have left over at the All-Star break?
  • Does prior league bidding affect your FAAB bids?
  • Does current team FAAB amounts affect your FAAB bids?

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The AL West Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jennifer Piacenti

Strategy Section

• Head to Head Points leagues
  • Thoughts on the format
  • Are there ways to improve the format from a fairness perspective?
• Other potential format improvements for leagues

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The Call-Ups Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Pierre Camus

Strategy Section

• General strategy regarding June Call-Ups / mid-season prospects
• Are hitter call-ups more or less valuable / reliable than pitcher call-ups?
• Trading prospects in redraft leagues

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The NL East Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Ellen Adair

Strategy Section

• Do you ever root against your home team in favor of players on your fantasy team?
• In depth knowledge of your home team and how it helps or hurts in playing fantasy baseball.

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The AL East Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jason Collette

Strategy Section

• Is it time yet to think about punting categories in roto leagues?
  • Punt speed? Punt saves?
  • Punt ERA?
• How do you know when to use the waiver wire vs. resorting to a trade?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The Prospects Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Eric Cross

Strategy Section

• How important is it for fantasy redraft players to be aware of prospects?
  • Does it differ for hitters vs. pitchers?
  • Is it more important to know about prospects pre-draft or during the season?
• Royce Lewis
  • What is Minnesota’s positional plan for him?
• Struggling Prospects
  • How much did the missed 2020 season play into this year’s struggling prospect crop?
    • How does it change how you approach prospects for fantasy in 2022?
• Top prospects in baseball & top impact prospects for 2022
  • Corbin Carroll
  • Robert Hassell III
  • Cal Mitchell
  • Riley Greene
  • C.J. Abrams
  • Adley Rutschman
  • Grayson Rodriguez
  • Noelvi Marte
  • Jordan Walker
  • Triston Casas
  • Vinnie Pasquantino
  • Miguel Vargas

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The Pitcher Preview Strategy Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

• Pitcher Preview
  • Tools to look at matchups
  • Analytics for deep dives
    • Walk and Stirkeout rates
    • ERA estimators
    • Luck checks
    • Statcast measures
    • Game logs
    • Upcoming matchups

Pitcher Preview

Waiver Wire

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

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The NL Central Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Sara Sanchez

Tout Wars Update

Strategy Section

• 2022 Baseball Environment – How have player values changed for certain player types?
  • High contact / Low Power
  • Low BA / High Power
    • Joey Gallo
  • Stolen base players
  • Ace pitchers
  • Reliable closers

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The Frustration Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Howard Bender

TGFBI Update

Strategy Section

• When do you look at where you are in the individual category standings?
• When do you look at where you are in the overall standings?
• Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Unorthodox Strategies
• Is it too early now to punt categories?
• Trading desperation
• The risk of Byron Buxton
• Frustrating fantasy baseball situations
  • Injured players
  • Overbidding / underbidding on FAAB
  • Sitting a player who has a good week
    • Shohei Ohtani’s excellent pitching performances in weekly leagues
  • Starting a player who has a bad week
• Balancing being a fantasy expert and succeeding in fantasy leagues

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The Waiver Wire Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Vlad Sedler

Strategy Section

• When to sit cold players, and when to cut them?
  • Does it differ for Hitters vs. Pitchers?
• Cutting injured players in non-IL slot leagues
  • Eloy Jimenez
  • How much FAAB should one spend on an injury stash?
• FAAB
  • Going with your gut.
  • When should you overspend on FAAB?
  • Being in tune with how the rest of the league is spending FAAB dollars.
  • FAAB from a Return on Investment perspective.
  • FAAB pricing also depends on the avaialble player pool.
  • Looking at other team’s positional and categorical needs before setting FAAB bids.
    • Adalberto Mondesi
      • Profile Risk
• General FAAB bidding guidelines
  • Streaming options
  • Hot players
    • Taylor Ward
    • Uniqueness of profile
  • Speed
  • Closers and speculative closers

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