8/9/24

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2-START FOR WEEK 20

• Charlie Morton at SFG, at LAA
• Trevor Rogers WSN, BOS
• Brayan Bello TEX, at BAL
• Kutter Crawford TEX, at BAL
• Kyle Hendricks at CLE, TOR
• Andrew Abbott STL, KCR
• Ben Lively CHC, at MIL

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

Guest: Pierre Camus

NFBC League Update

Strategy Section

• Fantasy Owner Disappearance
  • General Ethics
  • Money Leagues vs. Home Leagues vs. Expert Leagues
  • Fantasy Re-Emergence
  • Bottom teams trading late in the season
• Commissioner responsibility
  • When should a commissioner step in?
  • How should commissioners handle absent owners?
    • Should a commissioner set an absent owner’s lineup?
• How to account in FAAB for inactive owners

Who’d You Rather?

• 1B – Paul Goldschmidt, Alec Bohm, Vinnie Pasquantino
• 2B – Jonathan India, Bryson Stott, Ryan McMahon, Luis Arraez
• SS – CJ Abrams, Ezequiel Tovar, Nico Hoerner, Jackson Merrill
• 3B – Ke’Bryan Hayes, Issac Paredes, Jake Burger, Willi Castro

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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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 were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and there are ten of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers 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 leagues. Read the rest of this entry »

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New rankings out next week!
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Holy crap, what a brutal board. There are some intriguing arms outside of the 3 x-ers but they almost all have a rough matchup.  I know the opponents Ortiz and Morton are facing haven’t been strong of late, but they still scare me enough to be leery with either of them. I was impressed that Ortiz stemmed the tide after a 5 ER first inning to still go 5.3 IP with 6 ER. Still a bad outing, but those extra innings are so key in blowups. Outside of Ortiz, that group of 1 x-ers are straight up WHIP killers and you have to start being very mindful of your ratios as we enter the home stretch.

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I have my chat at 2pm ET on Wednesday if you have any questions. Pretty deep board today and as such, I’m probably staying away from the 1-x’s in most cases, but I realize options are tight in many leagues and all three have had runs of success this year.

Wednesday morning updates:

One of the downsides of posting is early is missing changes or in this case, some updated doubleheader information.

• Cortes is moved to Wednesday while Luis Gil & Will Warren will start the DH v. LAA. Gil is an automatic and I miiiight give Warren a shot in deeper leagues if I’m chasing Wins.
• Ben Lively and Eduardo Rodriguez were also rained out so they’ll be on the Wednesday slate joining Pfaadt & Carrasco. Lively was a 2-x reco while I want to wait and see on E-Rod.

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American League

Angels

Griffin Canning thinks he is doing a better job of hiding the ball.

Canning had trouble with his control, walking four, but made up for it by allowing just three hits and striking out a season-high eight batters. He credited a change in his mechanics for his success, as he felt hitters were seeing what was coming because he separates the ball from his glove early in his delivery.

“It was significantly better today,” Canning said. “Mentally, just, in a good spot. Felt like I had good rhythm, just on the same page with [catcher] Matt [Thaiss]. And obviously I can clean up some of those walks and some deeper counts, but overall, I feel pretty good about it.”
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“I think it was just hiding the ball a little bit better,” Canning said. “I feel like hitters have kind of been telling me, I’m probably just showing the ball for too long, just based on the swings they’re getting off on me. I feel like I was hiding the ball and making them make later decisions.”

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I need one of these.

Tired of not being able to hold your hot dog, have a drink, AND catch a home run ball at the same time?

Meet the Munchie Mitt – only in @MiLB. pic.twitter.com/jyiyF9gELN

— MLB (@MLB) August 5, 2024

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I completely forgot the 2-start chart this morning. I’m sorry about that! As for the remaining 2-steppers who are going today, their ranking on the board is indicative of how I feel for the whole week.

David Festa with a third straight solid start since returning. He should be rostered everywhere right now.

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8/5/24

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FAAB PICKUPS

• Jackson Holliday
• Coby Mayo
• Gavin Lux
• Miguel Vargas
• Joey Loperfido

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