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

Guest: Scott Pianowski

Strategy Section

• Setting Lineups
  • General advice for setting lineups
  • How many starters vs. relievers should you start each week?
  • Are some statstics a priority to “bank” earlier on in the season?
  • When to play Shohei Ohtani as a hitter vs. as a pitcher
• Waiver Wire
  • Priorities for waiver wire acquisitions

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

What to do with?

• Alek Manoah
• Lance Lynn
• Nick Lodolo
• Chris Sale

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The Is It Too Early episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Glenn Colton

Strategy Section

• Changes in draft strategy for 2023
  • Is it working?

Is It Too Early

• Is it too early to give up hopes of winning in 2023 if you are currently in last place?
• Is it too early to give up on certain specific rotisserie categories if you are in a hole?
• Is it too early to play for extreme volume (despite lower quality of play)?
• Is it too early to disregard pre-season projections and pre-season draft prep?
• Is it too early to make large FAAB bids?
• Is it too early to fully believe in 2023 YTD figures?
• Is it too early to take victory laps?
• Is it too early to sit struggling stars in your lineups?
• Is it too early to cut players that you spent a large amount of draft capital on?

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

Guest: Joe Sheehan

MLB Rule Changes

• Which rule has had the most effect thus far?
• Which new rule are we least happy about?
• How has the ball changed this year?

Strategy Section

• Which is more important – knowing the players, or knowing how to value the players?
  • Pre-season vs. in-season
• FAAB
  • Should the prices you pay in FAAB be driven by obtaning a good return on investment, or is it more market driven?
  • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Rob Silver’s comments on FAAB
    • Will Tanner Bibee be worth his FAAB bids?
    • How much should one pay for a projected SP60 in FAAB?
    • How much should one pay for a projected top 50 player n FAAB?
    • How much should one pay for a projected top 100 player n FAAB?

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

Guest: Jason Collette

Strategy Section

• Demoted Players
  • Parameter/Projection error, or simply part of the process?
  • Jake McCarthy
  • Jordan Walker
• How to know when hot player starts are for real?
• How to trade for / trade away players with hot starts?
  • Is it easier to trade for / trade away players with cold starts?
• Hitters with hot starts
  • Yandy Diaz
  • Nico Hoerner
  • Patrick Wisdom
  • Jarred Kelenic

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

Guest: Sky Dombroske

Tout Wars experience

Strategy Section

• How to react to players who start the season poorly
  • Ignoring traditional surface stats
  • Underlying component statistics you should look at early on in the season
  • When is it time to bench a player?
  • When is it time to drop a player?
  • When to trade for / trade away players
• Hitters with poor starts
  • Jake McCarthy
  • Christian Walker
  • Juan Soto
  • Manny Machado
  • Tyler O’Neill

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The 2023 Bold Predictions episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Michael Govier

NFBC & Tout Wars experience

Strategy Section

• First few weeks strategy
  • How to use FAAB in the first few weeks of the season
  • How to know who to drop/cut a player from your roster?
• What to do with demoted or injured players?
  • Vaughn Grissom
  • Luis Severino

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The 2023 Draft Recap episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Steve Cozzolino

The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational (TGFBI)

• Steve’s TGFBI Draft Board – Team 9
• Reuven’s TGFBI Draft Board – Team 8
• Ariel’s TGFBI Draft Board – Team 8
• General snake draft strategy
• KDS Strategy
• First five rounds strategy
• Saves strategy
• Steals strategy
• Catcher strategy
• Easiest draft decisions
• Toughest draft decisions

LABR Mixed Auction

• Ariel’s LABR Draft Board
• Altering strategy based on knowing how the other competitors draft
• General auction strategy for a 12 team mixed league
• Shohei Ohtani at $26 as Ariel’s most expensive player
• Saves strategy in a 12 team mixed league
• How to pull off obtaining so many value bargains in an auction

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The 2023 Pre-Draft Injury episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

• Injury Overview / Ortho 101
• Injury reoccurrences
• World Baseball Classic injury concerns

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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

• General closer landscape
• Optimal closer strategy last year
• Is a closer who gets a half a year’s worth of saves a successful draft pick?
  • Closers who are traded mid-season
• General closer draft strategy
  • Is drafting a 2nd round closer cost prohibitive for the rest of your roster?
• What is the best way to throw a cheap closer dart?
• Is it worth buying split closer situations?
• Is it worth skipping out on reliable closers and acquiring saves in-season via FAAB?
• Should we purchase middle relievers in drafts?

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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
    • Chris Sale
    • Jacob deGrom
    • Tyler Glasnow
  • 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
  • Aaron Nola
  • Shane Bieber
  • Kevin Gausman

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