Beat the Shift Podcast – Trade Deadline Episode w/ Kevin Hasting

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

Guest: Kevin Hasting

Strategy Section

• MLB Trade Deadline Strategy
  • Planning your roster for the MLB trade deadline
  • Trading players on your fantasy team
    • Which is more accretive – pre or post MLB trade deadline?
  • Waiver Wire
    • Is it worthwhile to speculate on MLB players who could gain value from being traded?
    • Who ends up gaining more post trade deadline – the player being traded, or the player gaining playing time by filling a void?
  • Big name player trades
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
    • Is the change in value due to the change in venue sizeable / worthwhile to consider?
    • Should we impose a value penalty on players due to changing their environments / organizations mid-season?
    • Pitcher arsenal changes post-trades
• Players likely to be traded from MLB teams that will be “sellers”
  • Cardinals
  • Royals
  • Pirates
  • Mets
• How long should you hold players on your roster after they lose playing time / role?
• NFBC semi-weekly roster setting
  • Maintaining roster flexibiltiy due to injury
  • Alternative format discussion
  • Using the utility spot properly

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Mailbag

Injury Update

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