The Deadline Recap episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Patrick Davitt

Expert League Update

Strategy Section

• Fantasy Trades
  • Reuven trade in GDD – Logan Webb for Josh Hader
  • It is all about the categories!
  • Excess stats
  • When should you look to trade vs. working the waiver wire
  • Is there a cost to NOT making a fantasy trade?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Trading Deadline Recap

• First impressions / reactions
• Go after Marlins replacements?
• Garrett Crochet controversy
• Closer situations
• Players traded that gained value
• Players traded that lost value
• Players not traded that gained value
• Players not traded that lost value
• How much FAAB should you spend now on replacement players?

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Bonus Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Injury Update

Insurance in Fantasy Baseball

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The Mid-season episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Howard Bender

LABR Update

1st Half Awards

• Biggest stories of the first half
• Fantasy MVP Hitter
• Fantasy MVP Pitcher
• Fantasy MVP Rookie
• Fantasy Biggest Bust

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Strategy Section

• Which roto categories have the highest ability to move in the second half of the season?
• Which roto categories are the hardest to move in the second half of the season?

2nd Half Players

• Which players will tail off / regress in the second half of the season?
• Which players will heat up in the second half of the season?

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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The Trading episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Fred Zinkie

Strategy Section

• Trading
  • General trading philosophy
  • When should you look for a trade vs. getting help off of the waiver wire?
  • How to trade in this high information environment?
  • How does your current league standing matter in trading?
  • Don’t stay complacent in 1st place!
    • Stay active in the trading market!
  • Keeper league trading
    • Picking a lane – buy vs. sell
  • Approach individual owners for trades, or make a trading interest public?
  • Lowball offers?
  • Ian Kahn and trading
  • Should you trade with players close to you in the standings?

Waiver Wire

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

Closers who may lose their roles at the trading deadline

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The Reaction episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Michael Govier

Willie Mays

Strategy Section

• Where to look for news
• How to react to transaction news
• Playing time should be the center of your thought process
• What to look for in prospect callups?
• How to react to injury news
• How to react to over/underperformance?
• Why Michael didn’t draft Ronald Acuna Jr. at 1.1 this year in a league.

The fun of playing fantasy baseball

• Favorite and least favorite parts of the game
• How can rooting for your home team & rooting for your fantasy teams co-exist?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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The Injured List Debate episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Injured List Debate

• A full in-depth debate about the pros and cons of playing with an injured list in fantasy baseball.

Twitter/X Comments

• Your Twitter/X comments on the pros and cons of playing with an injured list in fantasy baseball.

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The NFBC episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Greg Ambrosius

NFBC

• History
• What makes the NFBC stand out?
• Auctions
• What is most impressive about the NFBC players?
• Trends in the FAAB spending
• Tilt toward pitching

NFBC Format

• Category changes (OBP, Holds, etc.)
• Prospects not eligibile in player pool
• No Injured List
• 2x a week hitter lineups

Strategy Section

• How should you constrruct your bench in NFBC leagues?
• How much should you consider the upcoming schedule for setting lineups?

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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The Prospect episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: James Anderson

Prospects

• The top prospects already in the major leagues
• Has the new incentives for rookies changed the timing of prospect call-ups?
• Prospects to make an impact in 2024
• Prospects to make an impact in 2025

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Strategy Section

• Hit rates for prospects
• What translates to short term success for prospects?
• What translates to long term success for prospects?
• How much FAAB should you bid on prospects when they come up to the majors (NFBC)?
• How early should you pick up prospects off of the waiver wire (home leagues)?
• When should you trade for/away prospects in keeper leagues?
• When should you cut bait on a prospect in redraft leagues?

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Mailbag

Injury Update

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The Memorial Day episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Catching Up

• High School Baseball
• Adult Softball
• Manhattanhenge

Strategy Section

• Memorial Day Checkup
• What should you take stock of?
• Is it too early to punt certain categories?
• Should you focus on categories you are struggling in, or categories which are tight?
• Time to trade
• Evaluating what went wrong and why

Waiver Wire

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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The Relief Pitcher episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Doug Dennis

Strategy Section

• The value of rostering a closer handcuff
• The value of middle relievers who won’t close games
• Key Middle Relievers
  • Reed Garrett
  • Bryan Abreu
  • Yennier Cano
• Timing of when to pick up closer handcuffs off of the wire
• Looking at overall skills vs. recent performance
• How much FAAB to spend on new in-season closers?
• How to deal with closers potentially being traded mid-season?
• When to drop a struggling or demoted closer?
• Decisions are context dependent
• Closers on bad teams

The Doug Dennis Strategy

• Tout Wars expert league strategy

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Bullpen Situations

• Phillies
• Orioles
• Rays
• Twins
• Dodgers
• Nationals

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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The Value episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Larry Schechter

Larry’s new book – The History of Fantasy Sports

Strategy Section

• Auction Draft Strategy
  • General Strategy
  • Bargains & Relative Bargains
  • High priced catchers
  • How to bump up catchers for replacement level
  • Valuing closers
  • Preparing with market values
  • How to incorporate risk in your values
    • Baked into player projections via playing time
    • Aggregating risk
  • Using projections
• Mono vs. Mixed leagues
  • Valuing players in a mixed league
  • FAAB
• In-person vs. online auctions

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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