Beat the Shift Podcast – Starting Pitcher Episode Part 2 w/ Eno Sarris
The Starting Pitcher episode (Part 2) of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Eno Sarris
Pitching+, Stuff+, Command+
Strategy Section
- Effects of new MLB rule changes on pitchers
- Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
- Risk
- Valuing pitchers returning from injury
- Valuing older pitchers with lots of mileage on their arms
- Shohei Othani
- Is there extra risk asscociated with rostering the two-way player?
- Starting pitcher strategy
- General landscape
- Do you need to draft an ace pitcher in fantasy?
- Should we avoid the waiver wire for starting pitchers?
- Should we avoid streaming SPs?
- Should we tilt the Hitter/Pitcher % split more towards pitching?
- Should we use more bench slots for starting pitchers this year?
- Should we be chasing any of the following?
- Wins
- Innings
- High IP / GS
- Pitchers on good teams
ATC Undervalued Players
- Starting Pitchers
Mailbag
- How to pick up a starting pitcher off of the waiver wire – what statistics should you look at?
- How many relief pitchers should you roster in a 12-team league?
Relief Pitcher ‘handcuff’ situations worth purchasing
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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.