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

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July 21, 2023

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

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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.

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