Beat the Shift Podcast – Outfield Episode w/ Jeff Erickson

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

Guest: Jeff Erickson

Strategy Section

• Playing in multiple leagues
  • How does the draft preparation differ between leagues?
  • Knowing the market of each individual league and creating specific game plans.
  • Does strategy alter by playing in multiple leagues?
    • To what extent should you diversify the players taken in each league?
  • Keeping track of multiple leagues in season
  • Waiver wire in season
    • Start with the shallow leagues
    • Using information from leagues with an earlier FAAB time slot for leagues with later ones
  • How to prioritze leagues in late summer
    • Learning from leagues that are lost
• The impact of the current lockout on drafting
  • Closer prices
  • FAAB early season
  • Mono leagues
    • Actuarial goodness for Ariel

Outfield Player pool

• The depth of OF in 2022
• The impact of player platoons
• The impact of player injuries

ATC Player Discussion

• Outfielders
  • Mitch Haniger
  • Alex Verdugo
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
    • Ariel’s Trivia
  • Joey Gallo
  • Adam Duvall
  • Marcell Ozuna
  • Charlie Blackmon
  • Austin Hays
    • IntraSD champion
  • Max Kepler
  • Mike Yastrzemski
  • Raimel Tapia

Mailbag

• Fringe outfielders with playing time upside
• Possible outfield sleepers
• Lane Thomas

Final outfield thoughts

• Know your targets
• Value late
• Draft unique profiles early

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

 

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