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3/3/22

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SP Preview Pt. 5

• Better PIT buy: Roansy Contreras or Mitch Keller?
• Will Luis Ortiz throw enough innings to matter?
• Better SF buy: Sean Manaea or Alex Wood?
• Is Ross Stripling underrated after a great ‘22?
• What’s Y2 in DET look like for E-Rod?
• Matt Manning still have upside?
• Matthew Boyd returns to DET

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TGFBI drafts are in full effect for 2022. For those that don’t know, TGFBI the largest fantasy baseball industry contest with 29 fifteen person leagues. Five days in and all leagues are already through the first 100 picks with the fastest league already at pick 282! For a look at the complete ADP which I am updating throughout the drafts and all the draft boards, click here.

If you want to win your way in, you can compete in a satellite league which are available here, but they will be ending next week!

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American League

Blue Jays

• Cavan Biggio will play half his games in the outfield.

Biggio knows right field well. He started 13 games there in 2021 and six last season, but John Schneider is expecting more of a 50-50 split for Biggio between the infield and outfield this season, adding that he’ll play “a ton” of outfield. That should tell you all you need to know about the Blue Jays’ plans for their fourth outfield spot, and this assignment is something he plans to grab with both hands.

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Time now for our annual spin through players whose luck in 2022 was worse (or better) than their fortune deserved. Our premise is that their bad (or good) fortune disguises the true valence of their performance, and that their luck, being luck, will regress to the mean, and their outcomes will regress along with the luck.

Our method is absurdly simple yet strangely effective. (Although, we hasten to note, not infallible. Last year we warned you away from Kevin Gausman.) To find unlucky pitchers, we look for guys who had high BABIPs and HR/FB% but low Hard-Hit percentages. To find lucky ones, we look for the the opposite. (For lucky/unlucky hitters, whom we’ll get around to in a week or two, we do the opposites of the opposites, if you see what we mean.) We assume our reasoning is self-evident. If not, ask about it in the Comments section below, and we’ll do our best to answer. Starting Pitchers this week, Relievers next: Read the rest of this entry »

3/1/22

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon!!

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• @sporer – Host
• @longenhagen – Guest

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Top 100s that Missed the Fantasy Dynasty List

• Eric’s Top 100
• Paul’s Top 130 Dynasty List
• Logan Allen (4:21)
• Jake Eder (7:41)
• Brice Turang (10:28)
• Gordon Graceffo (12:51)

Team-by-Team NL

Players Mentioned

• Atlanta Braves – Roddery Muñoz, Sam Hilliard, Jesse Franklin V (15:43)
• New York Mets – Francisco Álvarez, Brett Baty (21:17)
• Philadelphia Phillies – Andrew Painter, Mick Abel, Griff McGarry, Nikau Pouaka-Grego (24:55)
• Miami Marlins – Jose Salas, Eury Pérez, Nick Fortes (30:57)
• Washington Nationals – Keibert Ruiz, Jake Alu, Luis García, Jake Irvin (36:42)

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• Anyone with an Athletic subscription, read this entire article. Great stuff from the beat writers on fantasy-relevant topics for each team. I included a couple of them below.

American League

Angels

• Patrick Sandoval plans on throwing his change more.

Sandoval said he plans to use the changeup more this season, as he still believes it’s his best offering when he has a feel for it.

“It’s huge,” Sandoval said. “It’s my best pitch, and I need it every outing. It’s something that really works with the fastball and the slider.”

His change is one of the best in the game with a career 25% SwStr% and 48% GB%. Read the rest of this entry »

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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MLB

• Infielders aren’t able to play on the grass because of the new shift rules.

Crawford won’t be able to leverage that arm by playing on the cut of the outfield grass when slower runners are at the plate. The new rules limiting defensive shifts require that infielders have both feet on the dirt when the pitch is released. Crawford drew one warning from an umpire Saturday for having his heel on the edge of the grass. Because violations are reviewable, even the most minor infractions could nullify an out or an inning-ending play in the regular season.

Several infielders with cannon arms were able to play on the outfield grass against slow righties and still throw them out at first. Since the infielders have to play in, a few of those righties might see a few more balls get through this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is today’s chat transcript:

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Must. Reach. Finish line…So. Close. We’re almost done with our positional previews, having now covered catchers, first base, second base, third base, shortstop, outfielders, and relievers. We got started on the starters last week, checking it on the Top 50 options. But as we leave those tiers behind, the waters necessarily get choppier, with more categorical warts appearing as player quality (and reliability) begins to drop off. So, before we get to this latest Rankening*, let’s have a quick chat about how these ranks come to be and the wiggle room inherent. Read the rest of this entry »