Beat the Shift Podcast – Episode w/ Brian Bannister (Director of Pitching, SF Giants)

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February 22, 2022

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

Guest: Brian Bannister – Director of Pitching, San Francisco Giants (& former major league player with NYM/KCR)

Interview

  • Highlight of career
    • Coaching highlight
    • Major league pitching highlight
    • Mets highlight
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Impact on college team
  • Analytics
    • Some of the current analytics being used
    • Having a hunch and then researching it when the analytics tools are available
    • Impact on current team
    • Using all of the tools at your disposal
    • Studying the outliers & great players to find success for current players
    • Organizations differ in analytics use
    • What are some analytics used by teams that aren’t available publically?
    • VAA, Seam Shifted Wake, etc.
    • Learning from the uniqueness of players
    • Using analytics to play to a player’s strengths vs. exploiting an opponent’s weaknesses

  • Health
    • Analytics used to prevent injury
    • Certains pitchers are pre-disposed to injury
    • Preparing pitchers for 2022 in the context of a shortened spring training
  • The most important bullpen of Brian’s life
  • Mailbag
    • Alex Cobb

 

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Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Ariel is also the winner of the 2020 FSWA Baseball Article of the Year award. He is the creator of the ATC (Average Total Cost) Projection System. Ariel was ranked by FantasyPros as the #1 fantasy baseball expert in 2019. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Ariel is a member of the inaugural Tout Wars Draft & Hold league, a member of the inaugural Mixed LABR Auction league and plays high stakes contests in the NFBC. Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Ariel Cohen is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He is a Vice President of Risk Management for a large international insurance and reinsurance company. Follow Ariel on Twitter at @ATCNY.

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