5/20/24

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APR FAAB REVIEW

31-Mar

• Oswaldo Cabrera .231 AVG, 2 HR, 2 SB, 15 R/14 RBI
• Jason Foley 8 SVs, 2.25 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 14 Ks
• Travis d’Arnaud .260, 5 HR, 0 SB, 13 R/14 RBI

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I’ll be honest. P.I.N.E. is having some trouble. Pitchers in Need of Extraction, or P.I.N.E. to keep baseball jargon at an all-time high of acronym and buzz-word soup, is a simplistic model I developed to flag starting pitchers who have displayed some warning signs. P.I.N.E. flags statistics that have deviated from what that pitcher has done over a larger period, albeit in small data samples. That’s the most obvious issue. Taking small samples of volatile pitching data, in this case, the last 14 days or typically two starts per pitcher, and then comparing it to the last two years of a pitcher’s data, is tricky. Anything can happen in two starts and that’s why P.I.N.E. is not a model that should be automated to make your fantasy baseball decisions for you. Instead, it should present information that you otherwise may have ignored. Read the rest of this entry »

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This article takes a look at some of the new bat tracking metrics published this week at Baseball Savant. It aims to help readers incorporate the new metrics into their analysis toolkit.

Bat tracking metrics have now been published for 2024, starting on April 3^rd. Last year, Baseball America published a test version of average bat speed as well. The operationalization of the bat tracking metrics has been tweaked since the Baseball America version was published, but so far, this is the data we have to work with.

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Me after any workout:

Colton Cowser goes grazing to make this diving play! 🐄 pic.twitter.com/U9D384WUQH

— MLB (@MLB) May 19, 2024

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For approximately the 209th straight week, Reynaldo López is set up for a 2-start week. Will this finally be his week?

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5/19/24

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5/17/24

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2-START FOR WEEK 8

• Slade Cecconi at LAD/MIA
• Charlie Morton at CHC/at PIT
• Kyle Bradish check-in at STL/at CHW
• Javier Assad ATL/at STL
• Andrew Abbott SDP/LAD

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

Guest: Doug Dennis

Strategy Section

• The value of rostering a closer handcuff
• The value of middle relievers who won’t close games
• Key Middle Relievers
  • Reed Garrett
  • Bryan Abreu
  • Yennier Cano
• Timing of when to pick up closer handcuffs off of the wire
• Looking at overall skills vs. recent performance
• How much FAAB to spend on new in-season closers?
• How to deal with closers potentially being traded mid-season?
• When to drop a struggling or demoted closer?
• Decisions are context dependent
• Closers on bad teams

The Doug Dennis Strategy

• Tout Wars expert league strategy

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Bullpen Situations

• Phillies
• Orioles
• Rays
• Twins
• Dodgers
• Nationals

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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Scott & Skenes time!

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