The Starting Pitcher Preview (Part I) episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Nick Pollack

What’s new at PitcherList?

• PLV 2.0

Strategy Section

• Pitch arsenal
  • Is it better to have one elite pitch, or a few good pitches?
  • Pitch mix changes
    • Blind spot of projections?
    • How to know when a pitcher will be more successful?
    • What to make of a pitcher throwing a new pitch?
• Should we trust certain teams / organizations to improve pitchers?
  • Ryan Pepiot

Starting Pitchers

• General player pool observations
• 12-team vs. 15-team leagues
• Which is more important – securing ratios or strikeouts?
• Should you chase wins?
• How much of a discount do you need for an injury concern pitcher?

ATC Undervalued Players

• Starting Pitchers
  • Framber Valdez
  • Logan Webb
    • How to throw a screwball
  • Max Fried
    • Partial tear vs. full tear
    • Yoshinobu Yamamoto innings
  • Zach Eflin
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Tanner Bibee
  • Justin Steele
  • Shane Bieber
  • Chris Bassitt

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2/9/24

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

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SS PREVIEW

Late Veteran MIs

• Carlos Correa 259
• J.P. Crawford 275
• Orlando Arcia 329
• Amed Rosario 338
• Tim Anderson 350
• Chris Taylor 386 (discussed at 3B)
• Javier Báez 400

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2/8/24

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

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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS

• Gary Sánchez to MIL
• Carlos Santana to MIN
  • Willi Castro, Alex Kirilloff, Jose Miranda fallout
• Clayton Kershaw back to LAD (duh)
• Dominic Fletcher to CWS
• Gregory Santos to SEA

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It’s finally time to start my annual tradition of examining starting pitchers being drafted after pick 300 in NFBC drafts. For each article, I’ll examine about five guys when I find time between updating my outfield and top-200 hitter rankings and also Mining the News.

Previous articles

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2/2/24

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

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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS

• Corbin Burnes to BAL | Joey Ortiz, DL Hall to MIL
• Justin Turner to TOR
• Jorge Polanco to SEA | Anthony DeSclafani to MIN
• James Paxton to LAD

SS PREVIEW

The King & The Challenger

• Bobby Witt Jr. 3 ADP
• Trea Turner 12

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The Middle Infield Preview episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Sara Sanchez

Strategy Section

• Risk
  • Should you minimize risk early on in drafts?
  • Should you increase risk late?
  • At what point in the draft do you worry less about risk?
  • How does league size / depth affect your risk propensity?
• The value of player consistency
  • Head to Head formats
• Pitchers with injury issues
  • Why do projections seem to overstate innings for risky starters?
  • Should you avoid injury risk pitchers all together?
  • Should you worry about your team’s aggregation of risky pitching?

Middle Infield

• General player pool observations
• Positing scarcity no longer exists
• Which price points to play at in 2024?
• What statistics should you get from the MI?
• Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

ATC Undervalued Players

• Middle Infielders
  • Bo Bichette
  • Nico Hoerner
  • Gleyber Torres
  • Xander Bogaerts
  • Willy Adames
  • Nolan Gorman
  • Jeremy Pena
  • Vaughn Grissom
  • Jeff McNeil
  • Jorge Polanco
  • J.P. Crawford

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American League

Angels

• Contrary to initial reports, Aaron Hicks was NOT guaranteed to be an everyday outfielder.

Hicks said on Tuesday that he was told by Minasian and manager Ron Washington that he will be an everyday player, seeing action at all three outfield spots and occasional time at designated hitter. But he later clarified, he only met that he’s ready to play every day and hadn’t been given any assurances about regular playing time. Minasian also said Trout will remain the club’s center fielder and that there are no plans to move him off the position.

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When something becomes sexy, I’m all in. Crocs and socks? Sexy. Minivans with a built-in vacuum cleaner to suck up all the floor Cheerios? Sexy. Throwing a four-seam fastball with a very shallow vertical approach angle due to some serious induced vertical break at the top of the zone? Sexy. Some things some people just can’t pull off. But when a trend becomes a trend, you’re either in or you’re out.

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

Guest: Keith Raad (New York Mets broadcaster)

Interview

• Career path to the Mets
• Transition from minor leagues to major leagues
• Working with Howie Rose
• Research prior to season
• Incorporating analytics into the broadcast
• Catch phrases
• Philosophy of new manager and general manager
• Brandon Nimmo’s role
• How the Mets will handle third base
• Will Edwin Diaz bounce back to elite form?
• The most underrated player on the Mets
• Free agent fits for the Mets
• Prospects that could make an impact in 2024
• The biggest influence on Keith’s career
• Favorite moment as a broadcaster

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1/29/24

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

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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS

• Aaron Hicks to LAA

C PREVIEW

The Next Wave

• Luis Campusano 194
• Patrick Bailey 354
• Henry Davis 239
• Austin Wells 303
• Freddy Fermin 390
• Miguel Amaya 461

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