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

Strategy Section

• Should you immediately insert injury returnees into your active fantasy lineups?
  • Hitters vs. Pitchers

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

Guest: Derek Van Riper

All-Star Game Thoughts

Strategy Section

• What are you doing from a fantasy standpoint with your time at the all-star break?
• Using Rest of Season Projections
  • ATC Rest of Season Projections
  • Auction Calculator
  • When do you stop using pre-season projections?
• Looking at recent performance
  • What is the proper time frame to use for a recent player snapshot?
• How to tell the difference between underperformance and injury?

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

Guest: Jeff Zimmerman

Strategy Section / Mailbag

• What to look at / reasoning for setting weekly pitching lineups.
• How to accumulate “risk” & other strategies if behind in the standings and trying to catch up.
• How many points behind first place is it not too late to catch up to first?
• Sell high on Julio Rodriguez?

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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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