Beat the Shift Podcast – Waiver Wire Episode w/ Vlad Sedler

by
April 29, 2022

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

Guest: Vlad Sedler

Strategy Section

  • When to sit cold players, and when to cut them?
    • Does it differ for Hitters vs. Pitchers?
  • Cutting injured players in non-IL slot leagues
    • Eloy Jimenez
    • How much FAAB should one spend on an injury stash?
  • FAAB
    • Going with your gut.
    • When should you overspend on FAAB?
    • Being in tune with how the rest of the league is spending FAAB dollars.
    • FAAB from a Return on Investment perspective.
    • FAAB pricing also depends on the avaialble player pool.
    • Looking at other team’s positional and categorical needs before setting FAAB bids.
  • General FAAB bidding guidelines
    • Streaming options
    • Hot players
    • Speed
    • Closers and speculative closers

Waiver Wire

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Pitcher Preview

Mailbag

  • Buy low players: Bryan Reynolds and Ketel Marte
  • What to do with players you were high on during draft season that have struggled early on?
  • Based on what has transpired in the first month of 2022, how might you draft differently in 2023?
    • Power is more valuable
  • Pitchers returning from injury
  • Tony the Tiger
  • Softball !
  • Francisco Lindor

Injury Update – Reuven gives us the injury updates.

 

Follow us on Twitter

Podcast (beat-the-shift): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS





 

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.

2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
ncassinoMember since 2020
2 years ago

Ariel, you had mentioned a while back that you were working on ATC in-season projections. Anything to report there? If not, what do you use for your teams? I feel like pre-season projections are already dated but I don’t want to just use Steamer or Zips in-season projections because it will likely dramatically change things from the ATC projections I used at the draft. Any help is appreciated! Thank you and keep up the great work.

0
Ariel CohenFanGraphs Staff
2 years ago
Reply to  ncassino

Yes, I am working on a ROS projections! Hopefully to come out in the next couple of weeks.

0