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

Guest: Jennifer Piacenti

GDD Update

Strategy Section

• Sports Betting
  • Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS)
  • Betting terms
    • Money Line
    • Run Line (Spread)
    • Totals – Over/Under
  • Prop Betting
  • Arbitrage

Buy/Sell/Hold

• Hot Players
  • Pete Crow-Armstrong
  • Alex Bregman
  • Hunter Brown
  • Nick Pivetta
• Cold Players
  • Jordan Romano
  • Devin Williams
  • Yusei Kikuchi
  • Lane Thomas
  • Colt Keith
  • Andrew Vaughn

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

Read the rest of this entry »

Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

Read the rest of this entry »

Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

There is so much pitching that it’s difficult to know where to start. I usually start with the best SP1s and work my way down the value plays. Today, it’s a bit important to look at everyone in small pieces. We’re gonna cut the big pieces of fat with a santoku, feel out the meat, and then finely cut the remainder of what we’re discards with some shears.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

This smaller slate is pretty straightforward:

Shane McClanahan is the best pitcher on the slate and it isn’t remotely close. We’re just playing him on FanDuel. A lot of him to get overweight on the field.

Zac Gallen is the next-best play, but he’s a pretty expensive pivot on FanDuel, and we’re not exactly getting a discount on DraftKings, either.

Miles Mikolas is probably the spend-down SP2 pivot off of Gallen.

José Berríos is the other SP2 pivot to whom we can spend down, but he’s very risky.

Then, we have Framber Valdez, Andrew Heaney, and Lucas Giolito in high-risk spots we don’t wanna play, but should in MME for differentiation with a bunch of upside.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

Coors Field is on this slate and it’s free on FanDuel, while about half of the players are underpriced on DraftKings. So this could be a day where we’re all looking at aces for our lineup because they’re affordable with Coors stacks. And it’s a great day to be about the four aces.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

Thanks to the Royals, we have some — uhh — drama on this slate featuring 20 pitchers. 13 of whom have SIERAs under 4.00 this season. Usually, it wouldn’t be so easy to create a pitcher pool with this bunch, but the aces up top with the Royals dynamic make this slate a bit simple.

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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.

That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.

Read the rest of this entry »