The LIVE from First Pitch Arizona episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guests: Tristan Cockcroft & Derek Carty

Strategy Section

• Which is more important – the draft or in-season moves?
• Is it more important than ever to bank low-risk players in the early rounds of drafts?
• What makes a risky / consistent player?
  • Is Shohei Ohtani risky for 2024 as a hitter?
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • How should we determine what constitutes a consistent player, and how should we value consistency?
• Young players
  • Should we be cautious to roster young players with limited experience?
  • How should we value the playoff experience of young players?
• Stolen base landscape
  • How should we value SBs in 2024 drafts?
• Closers
  • Optimal strategy in retrospect for 2023
  • Prospective strategy heading into 2024
  • Should we be drafting middle relievers?

2024 First Round

• Who is a player that will be drafted in the first round of 2024 that is undervalued?
• Who is a player that will be drafted in the first round of 2024 that is overvalued?
• Who is a player that will not be drafted in the first round of 2024 that should be?

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

Strategy Section

• Last Weeks Strategy
  • Gaining in categories vs. Defending in categories
  • Marginal categories
  • Ratio categories strategy
    • Number of starters vs. number of relievers
    • Balancing with quantity stats
  • Chasing wins
  • FAAB Bidding
  • Game 163

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

Guest: Patrick Davitt

Strategy Section – Last Month

• Categories
  • Which categories can fluctuate more in the final month of the season?
• FAAB
  • How to manage FAAB in the final month of the season?
    • How does the first 5 months affect the final month FAAB?
    • Purchasing power
  • Leftover FAAB vs leftover auction dollars
• Lineups
  • Should you be churning your roster more in the final month of the season?
• Injuries
  • How to determine the right time to drop injured players (in the final month), and does it matter what caliber of player it is?
  • 50% Rule
  • Player examples
    • Joe Musgrove
    • Kyle Wright
    • Felix Bautista
    • Alek Manoah

Strategy Section – Drafts

• Draft strategies that went right in 2023
• Draft strategies that went wrong in 2023
• Taking injury risk players in drafts
  • Is Aaron Judge worth the risk in 2024 drafts?
  • Hitters vs. Pitchers

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

Guest: Scott Chu

Expert League Update

• Expert League Updates
• Players that worked out this season
• Players that busted this season

Strategy Section

• Time management
  • Bare minimum tasks
  • Important tasks
  • Nice to haves
• Important uses of time
  • Deep dives
    • Pre-season vs. in-season
  • Consuming fantasy content
  • Looking at standings, categories
  • Trading
• Ethics of competing towards the end

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

Guest: Andrea Arcadipane

Strategy Section

• How to do an in-depth player analysis
  • What stats / components to look for
  • Hitters vs. Pitchers
  • Pre-season vs. in-season
  • Veterans vs. Rookies
• How to detect undervalued players for stolen bases
  • Players who read pitchers well
  • Organizational philosophies
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Pitchers who are easy to run on
  • Catchers who are easy / difficult to run on

Trade Deadline Wrap-up

• Quick thoughts
• Major prospects traded
• Players who gained or lost value as a result of the MLB deadline deals
  • NL East
  • NL Central
  • NL West
  • AL East
  • AL Central
  • AL West

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

Guest: Clay Link

Strategy Section

• Setting Lineups
  • General points of what to look for when setting your fantasy lineups
  • Streakiness
  • Sitting struggling starters
  • Looking at matchups
  • • 2-Start Pitchers
  • When to consider category standings while setting your lineups?
  • Protecting pitcher ratios in roto
  • How to use Shohei Ohtani?
  • When to look at the “overall contest” categories vs. league specific ones in the NFBC.

Trade Deadline Deals

• Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• News and fantasy analysis of recent MLB deadline deals
  • Reaction to the Los Angeles Angels becoming “buyers.”
  • Other potential players who may be traded
  • Who to pick up in fantasy in anticipation of trades?

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

Guest: Kevin Hasting

Strategy Section

• MLB Trade Deadline Strategy
  • Planning your roster for the MLB trade deadline
  • Trading players on your fantasy team
    • Which is more accretive – pre or post MLB trade deadline?
  • Waiver Wire
    • Is it worthwhile to speculate on MLB players who could gain value from being traded?
    • Who ends up gaining more post trade deadline – the player being traded, or the player gaining playing time by filling a void?
  • Big name player trades
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
    • Is the change in value due to the change in venue sizeable / worthwhile to consider?
    • Should we impose a value penalty on players due to changing their environments / organizations mid-season?
    • Pitcher arsenal changes post-trades
• Players likely to be traded from MLB teams that will be “sellers”
  • Cardinals
  • Royals
  • Pirates
  • Mets
• How long should you hold players on your roster after they lose playing time / role?
• NFBC semi-weekly roster setting
  • Maintaining roster flexibiltiy due to injury
  • Alternative format discussion
  • Using the utility spot properly

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

Guest: Dr. Roto

2023 Fantasy All-Stars

• Fantasy MVP for Hitters
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Fantasy MVP for Pitchers
• Fantasy Waiver Wire MVP

Buy Low Players

Sell High Players

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

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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

• Taking stock of Rookies
  • 2023 Pans and Busts
• How much do organizations play into the success of prospects?
• Is there a difference in time to success for prospects between hitters and pitchers?
• Do speed prospects pan out more than power prospects?
• Is the sophomore slump a myth or reality?
• Which prospects skills are most translatable right away to the majors?
• Rookie playing time
  • Where is there more opportunity – on good teams or bad teams?
• Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Cost / Benefit of drafting prospects who are set to come up later in the season
  • Balance of time to callup vs. upside
• How to value trades in keeper / dynasty leagues
• Dynasty rankings
  • Where to get dollar values?
  • Multiple time horizon rankings

Top Prospects for the rest of 2023

Top Prospects for 2024

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

Guest: Cody Decker

Strategy Section

• Christian Walker / Arizona Diamondbacks
• Trade Deadline
  • Surprise Buyers and Sellers
• Surprise teams in 2023
• Surprise players in 2023
• Undervalued players for the rest of 2023

Israel Baseball Team Experience

Favorite Baseball Movies of All Time

Different Orginazational Philosophies

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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