Beat the Shift Podcast – Hot Episode w/ Sky Dombrokse

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

Guest: Sky Dombroske

Introduction

• Tout Wars H2H
• Head to Head format
• Not having an injured list
• Mike Trout injury

Strategy Section

• Hot Starts
  • What metrics should you look at to determine if hot starts are for real?
  • Using pre-season players projections based partially on prior injured seasons
  • Which do you believe more – hot pitcher starts or hot hitter starts?
  • How quickly to act on picking up hot players off of the waiver wire?
    • How much should you pay in FAAB?
  • Trading
    • Trading for a hot player
    • Trading away a hot player
  • How long do you keep rolling with hot players in your active lineup?
    • Hitters vs. pitchers
  • How to know when a player has “cooled off”

Hot Start Hitters – How to handle?

• Elly De La Cruz
  • Process vs. Results
• CJ Abrams
• Marcell Ozuna
• Tyler O’Neill
• Colton Cowser
• Brice Turang
• Alec Bohm
• Taylor Ward
• Starling Marte
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
• Isaac Paredes
• Brandon Marsh

Hot Start Pitchers – How to handle?

• Shota Imanaga
• Ranger Suarez
  • Name Game
• Jose Berrios
• Nick Lodolo
• Reed Garrett
  • What league size / depth should he utilized in?
• Erick Fedde 페디
• Zack Littell
• Jack Flaherty

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

 

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