Beat the Shift Podcast – Pitching Ninja Episode w/ Rob Friedman
The Pitching Ninja episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Rob Friedman
Interview
- How did Pitching Ninja come about?
- When did you realize that you’ve made it to the big time?
- Major league pitchers benefiting from watching and interacting with Pitching Ninja
- What is the difference beteween a sweeper and a slider?
- The effect of the new rule changes on baseball and on pitching
- The incerase of performance variance between starts
- Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
- Swinging strike rates
- Called strike rates
- How will swinging strike rates fare in 2024?
- Are batters trying to put the ball more in play, or are still swinging for the fences?
- How is a GIF pronounced?
- What is the most important aspect of analytics for pitchers these days?
- What has been Pitching Ninja’s impact on the fantasy baseball world?
Mailbag
Injury Update
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- Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja)
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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.