The First Two Weeks episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Sky Dombroske

Softball Season started !

Tout Wars Check-in

Strategy Section

• What metrics do you use to evaluate hot/cold player starts?
• How long into the season do you still use pre-season projections and evaluations?
• How quickly should you act on picking up hot players off of the waiver wire?
  • Mow much FAAB should you spent at the most on acquiring hot players?
    • Hitters vs. Starting Pitchers vs. Closers
• How long should you continue to play hot players off of the waiver wire in your starting lineup?
• How many poor outings in a row would it take to sit cold pitchers?
• When to bench pitchers for poor upcoming matchups?
• Have patience

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Buy/Sell/Hold/Drop

• Dropable Pitchers?
  • Brandon Pfaadt
  • Kodai Senga
  • Roki Sasaki
  • Luis Severino
  • Griffin Jax
  • Dennis Santana
• Hot Pitchers – Keep for the long haul?
  • José Soriano
  • Sandy Alcantara
  • Emerson Hancock
  • Taj Bradley
  • MacKenzie Gore
• Are we buying these hot hitting starts?
  • Oneil Cruz
  • Christian Walker
  • Chase DeLauter
  • Jordan Walker
  • Josh Bell
  • Chandler Simpson
  • Max Muncy (LAD)
  • Max Muncy (ATH)
• How long until you bench, how long until you drop?
  • Pete Alonso
  • Francisco Lindor
  • Josh Naylor
  • Ketel Marte
  • Addison Barger
  • Sal Frelick
  • Caleb Durbin
  • Isaac Paredes
  • Trent Grisham
  • Colton Cowser

Injury Update

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

Guests: Sam Wirsching & Britton Allen

Draft Season Recap

• Tout Wars
• GDD
• Auctioning against Ariel Cohen
• “Mets Fireballer”
• Using AAV in auctions for non-standard leagues

Strategy Section

• How was this draft season different from all other draft seasons?
  • Rookies
  • Closers
  • Pocket Aces
• Lessons learned
• Draft regrets
• How long into the season should you use pre-season projections?

Bold Predictions

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Buy/Sell/Hold

• Hot
  • Hitters
    • Andy Pages
    • Shea Langeliers
    • Sal Stewart
    • Liam Hicks
  • Pitchers
    • Cam Schlittler
    • Kevin Gausman
    • Joe Boyle
    • Bryce Elder
• Cold
  • Hitters
    • Josh Naylor
    • Spencer Torkelson
    • Marcell Ozuna
    • Caleb Durbin
  • Pitchers
    • Eury Pérez
    • Tanner Bibee
    • Nathan Eovaldi
    • Emmet Sheehan

Injury Update

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The Tout Wars Recap episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Joe Gallina

Tout Wars Head to Head Auction

• Link to Auction Board
• Strategy & preparation
• What we noticed in the auction
  • Auction temperature
• How we pivoted during the auction
• Our best buys of the auction
• Our worst buys of the auction
• Player analysis
  • Tatsuya Imai
  • Jacob Misiorowski
  • Cody Ponce 폰세
• Relief Pitcher strategy
• Team Recaps
• Reserve round strategy
• Key takeaways

Aaron Judge record Tout Wars bids

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The Relief Pitcher episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Greg Jewett

Strategy Section – Relief Pitchers / Closers

• General closer landscape for 2026
• Should you pay up for an elite closer in 2026?
  • Double tap elite closers?
• Who is worthwhile to draft in the 2nd / middle tier of closers this season?
• What to learn from spring training
• Potential breakouts from middle relievers / non-front line closers

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

All 30 MLB Bullpens & Closer situations

Injury Update

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The Starting Pitcher episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Nick Pollack

Strategy Section

• Which pitcher types should be emphasized on your fantasy rosters?
• What statistics are most helpful in evaluating pitchers?
• Which pitchers are worth watching this year in spring training?
• How will the World Baseball Classic affect pitchers this season?
• Which pitchers are throwing new pitches or changing pitch mixes this year?
• Who are some potential breakout pitchers for 2026?
• Expectations for Tatsuya Imai
• Starting Pitchers
  • General player pool observations
  • Better to have an ace, or 2-3 1A starting pitchers?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

ATC Undervalued Starting Pitchers

• Bryan Woo
• Logan Webb
• Nathan Eovaldi
• Zack Wheeler
• Sonny Gray
• Luis Castillo
• Ranger Suárez
• Matthew Boyd
• Kris Bubic
• José Soriano
• Cody Ponce 폰세

Deep league starting pitchers

Injury Update

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The Auction Strategy episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Frank Stampfl

Strategy Section

• General auction strategy
• Auction rules to live by
• Auction preparation
• The most important items to keep track of in an auction
• How to construct market values
  • What time frame should market values be drawn from?
• How to construct strike prices
  • How strict are you to your prices?
• What should you set as your Hitter % vs Pitcher % split?
• Nomination Strategies
  • When should you nominate “hype” players?
  • Breaking up tiers
• Stars & Scrubs vs. Spread the Risk
• Bidding
  • General
  • Frequency
  • Fast vs. slow
  • Starting bids
  • Price enforcing
  • +2 bids

Mailbag

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

Guest: Justin Mason

Strategy Section

• Diversification
  • Should you diversify your player shares?
    • At the top? In the middle? At the bottom?
• Kentucky Derby Selection (KDS)
  • What is KDS?
  • How should you set your KDS in 2026?
• Outfielders
  • General player pool observations
  • Which statistics should you look to draft from the OF position?
  • Differences between 3 OF leagues and 5 OF leagues

ATC Undervalued Outfielders

• Brent Rooker
• George Springer
• Teoscar Hernández
• Seiya Suzuki
• Andy Pages
• Taylor Ward
• Heliot Ramos
• Bryan Reynolds
• Chandler Simpson
• Mickey Moniak
• Willi Castro
• Brandon Marsh
• Other honerable mentions

Injury Update

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The Middle Infield episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Chris Towers

Strategy Section

• League format differences
  • How would your draft strategy change between?
    • Rotisserie (Roto) vs. HTH Points vs. HTH Categories
    • Waiver wire leagues vs. non-waiver wire (Draft Champions / Draft & Hold) leagues
    • Having IL slots vs. no IL slots
    • Large bench vs. small bench
    • Trading vs. non-trading leagues
    • Daily lineups vs. weekly lineups
• Middle Infielders
  • General player pool observations
  • Jacob Wilson as a fantasy starting shortstop
  • Which statistics should you look to draft from the MI position?

ATC Undervalued Middle Infielders

• Jeremy Pena
• Brice Turang
• Trevor Story
• Willy Adames
• Dansby Swanson
• Ezequiel Tovar
• Gleyber Torres
• Xander Bogaerts
• Masyn Winn
• Andrés Giménez
• Other honerable mentions

Injury Update

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The Corner Infield episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Mike Gianella

Strategy Section

• Multi-positional eligible players
  • Importance & use
  • Should you make a “do not draft” list?
  • Target multi-positional players? Or is it simply a tie-breaker?
  • How to value players who are expected to gain additional positional eligibility early on in the season?
• Colorado Rockies nostalgia
• Shallow vs. Deep positions
  • What is the weakest position this draft season?
• Narrow vs. Wide positions
• Corner Infielders
  • General player pool observations
  • Which statistics should you look to draft from the CI position?

ATC Undervalued Corner Infielders

• Freddie Freeman
• Yandy Díaz
• Alec Burleson
• Luis Arraez
• Alec Bohm
• Jake Burger
• Nolan Schanuel
• Miguel Vargas
• Andrew Vaughn
• Other honerable mentions

Injury Update

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The Player Analysis episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Lance Brozdowski

Personal History

• The future of Statcast broadcasts

Recent News

• Recent free agent signings
  • Kyle Tucker
  • Bo Bichette
• Will we see more short term / with opt outs / high AAV contracts going forward?

ATC Projections

• Accounting for fluke seasons
• Making adjustments to the projections
• Using the ATC Projections

Player Analysis

• Should we pay attention to players who “went to driveline?”
• Potential rookie pitcher breakouts
  • Trey Yesavage
  • Jonah Tong
  • Payton Tolle
  • Bubba Chandler
• Changes in pitchers’ pitch mix
  • Trends for 2026
  • The future of projections
  • Will pitchers focus on their best pitch, or spread around the mix more?
• Using Stuff+
• Using Bat speed
  • Minors vs. Majors

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