The AL West Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jennifer Piacenti

Strategy Section

• Head to Head Points leagues
  • Thoughts on the format
  • Are there ways to improve the format from a fairness perspective?
• Other potential format improvements for leagues

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6/30/22

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STANDOUT HITTERS & THEIR FUTURE – AL EDITION

• Jose Trevino (2:01)
• Santiago Espinal (6:19)
• Franchy Cordero (8:47)
• Isaac Paredes (11:26)
• Luis Arraez (15:57)
• Josh Naylor (21:15)

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The season has begun and we are back with Throwing Heat! For those who didn’t read these articles last season, this weekly article focuses on pitchers who are pitching well. When we are further into the season it will be based on a pitcher’s previous three starts but for now, it will just be their most recent starts.

This article’s beauty is that it highlights all types of pitchers from the best in the league to pitchers who are barely rostered. If someone is on a hot streak they will be in this article. I will also tell you if the hot streak is legit or if it appears to be a facade. I hope you enjoy it!

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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They get originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more of these leagues.

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Everytime a former player’s son gets drafted, I get another gray hair.

Congrats to Jackson Holliday, Baseball America's 2022 High School Player of the Year 🏆https://t.co/yFPwgNzBqK

— Ben Badler (@BenBadler) June 28, 2022

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The 2022 version of Bullpen Report includes five different sections, as well as the closer chart, which can be found at the bottom of the page.

1. Notable Workloads: Primary closers or valuable members of a closer committee who have been deemed unavailable or likely unavailable for the current day due to recent workload.
2. Injury News 
3. Outlier Saves: Explanation for a non-closer earning a save during the previous day.
4. Committee Clarity: Notes on a closer committee that clarify a pitcher’s standing in the group.
5. Losing A Grip: Struggling closers who could be on the hot seat.

The “RosterResource” link will take you to the corresponding team’s RosterResource depth chart, which will give you a better picture of the full bullpen and results of the previous six days (pitch count, save, hold, win, loss, blown save.)

Click HERE to view the full Closer Depth Chart.

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6/28/22

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STANDOUT STARTERS & THEIR FUTURE

High End Differences

• Kevin Gausman 13 spots (21 v. 8) | [2:10]
• Shane Bieber 20 (33 v. 13) | [8:50]
• Tarik Skubal 15 (29 v. 14) | [13:45]
• Frankie Montas 15 (30 v. 15) | [16:21]
• Logan Gilbert 7 (17 v. 24) | [19:19]

Justin Loves

• Shane Baz 38 (36 v. 74) | [22:25]
• Martín Pérez 34 (56 v. 90) | [26:05]
• Tyler Mahle 29 (44 v. 73) | [29:49]
• José Berríos 22 (43 v. 65) | [34:00]
• Framber Valdez 20 (23 v. 43) | [40:15]

Justin Hates

• Drew Rasmussen 45 (104 v. 59) | [43:52]
• Noah Syndergaard 39 (106 v. 66) | [47:15]
• Spencer Strider 38 (95 v. 57) | [49:40]
• Zach Eflin (99 v. 71) | [53:20]
• Merrill Kelly 켈리 (102 v. 78) | [54:30]

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Approximately 60 minutes of joyous analysis.

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A few thoughts on the pitchers from Monday’s games:

FOR STARTERS

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I don’t know which part is better, the catch or the nonchalant behavior of Dozier like nothing happened.

give me that! pic.twitter.com/2brFK79gSw

— Cut4 (@Cut4) June 28, 2022

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