Beat the Shift Podcast – Healing Episode w/ Ron Shandler

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

Guest: Ron Shandler

LABR Congratulations

Strategy Section

• Dealing with the current injury frequency level in baseball
  • Roster construction
  • Risk management
    • Broad Assesment Balance Sheet (BABS)
  • Reasons for injury frequency by team
  • Risk-adjusted pricing vs. managing to a risk budget
  • First round picks
    • Fernando Tatis Jr.
    • Ronald Acuna Jr.
• How to think about Binary Risk
  • Jacob deGrom
• Playing fantay against “Power Drafters” who take on more risk
• Is the market still right to draft risky elite starting pitching?
• Is the market overpricing stable closers in early drafts?
• How to value prospects in drafts?
  • Bobby Witt Jr.

Player debates

• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs. Bo Bichette
• Mike Trout vs. Luis Robert vs. Teoscar Hernandez
• Cody Bellinger vs. Christian Yelich
• Gregory Soto vs. David Bednar vs. Camilo Doval
• Jacob deGrom vs. Brandon Woodruff vs. Luis Castillo

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

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• Reuven Guy (@mlbinjuryguru)
• Ron Shandler (@RonShandler)
• Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod)

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