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

Guest: Greg Jewett

Strategy Section

• Optimal pre-season closer draft strategy
• Mid-season / second chance closer draft strategy
• The value of middle relievers on your roster
• The effect of the new MLB rules on pitchers
• Rostering closer “handcuffs”
• Looking at prior short term bullpen usage

Closer Situations

• Closers likely to be traded & fantasy impact
• Relivers coming back from injury
• Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Specific Team Situations
  • PHI
  • LAD
  • TB
  • COL
  • STL
  • MIN
  • SEA
  • MIA

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

Guest: Pierre Camus

Strategy Section

• Taking Stock after Two Months
  • When do the standings become real?
  • Implementing strategy changes
• “Wins” for the season
  • Pre-season strategies and player picks that have worked out
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Freddie Freeman – undervalued 1st round pick
  • George Kirby – control artist
• “Losses” for the season
  • Pre-season strategies and player picks that have not worked out
• Maximizing playing time
• Second chance leagues
  • Differences in strategy from pre-season

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

Guest: Scott Pianowski

Strategy Section

• Setting Lineups
  • General advice for setting lineups
  • How many starters vs. relievers should you start each week?
  • Are some statstics a priority to “bank” earlier on in the season?
  • When to play Shohei Ohtani as a hitter vs. as a pitcher
• Waiver Wire
  • Priorities for waiver wire acquisitions

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

What to do with?

• Alek Manoah
• Lance Lynn
• Nick Lodolo
• Chris Sale

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The Is It Too Early episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Glenn Colton

Strategy Section

• Changes in draft strategy for 2023
  • Is it working?

Is It Too Early

• Is it too early to give up hopes of winning in 2023 if you are currently in last place?
• Is it too early to give up on certain specific rotisserie categories if you are in a hole?
• Is it too early to play for extreme volume (despite lower quality of play)?
• Is it too early to disregard pre-season projections and pre-season draft prep?
• Is it too early to make large FAAB bids?
• Is it too early to fully believe in 2023 YTD figures?
• Is it too early to take victory laps?
• Is it too early to sit struggling stars in your lineups?
• Is it too early to cut players that you spent a large amount of draft capital on?

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

Guest: Joe Sheehan

MLB Rule Changes

• Which rule has had the most effect thus far?
• Which new rule are we least happy about?
• How has the ball changed this year?

Strategy Section

• Which is more important – knowing the players, or knowing how to value the players?
  • Pre-season vs. in-season
• FAAB
  • Should the prices you pay in FAAB be driven by obtaning a good return on investment, or is it more market driven?
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Rob Silver’s comments on FAAB
    • Will Tanner Bibee be worth his FAAB bids?
    • How much should one pay for a projected SP60 in FAAB?
    • How much should one pay for a projected top 50 player n FAAB?
    • How much should one pay for a projected top 100 player n FAAB?

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