8/12/24

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BUY OR FLY: SURGING STANDOUTS (L30 days PR)

• 5th Jake Burger: We said “hold” in 12s+ on 6/5, since: .899 OPS, 18 HR, 32 RBIs (53/94 pace)
• 7th Tyler Fitzgerald: .930 OPS, 3 HR, 5 SB since his big pickup period
• 10th Xavier Edwards: My 2B breakout during pos. reviews, since: .361, 13 SB, 15 R (92/106)
• 13th Lawrence Butler: OF pos. review day after 3 HRs, since: .325/4 HR & SB/17 R/13 RBI (31/131/100)

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In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »

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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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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