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6/21/24

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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 »

American League

Angels

• Jo Adell’s playing time is shrinking. Since May 20th, Adell has a .381 OPS and 42% K%. Read the rest of this entry »

6/21/24

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2-START FOR WEEK 13

• Cade Povich CLE/TEX
• Brayan Bello TOR/SDP
• Logan Allen at BAL/at KCR
• Casey Mize PHI/at LAA

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

Guest: Michael Govier

Willie Mays

Strategy Section

• Where to look for news
• How to react to transaction news
• Playing time should be the center of your thought process
• What to look for in prospect callups?
• How to react to injury news
• How to react to over/underperformance?
• Why Michael didn’t draft Ronald Acuna Jr. at 1.1 this year in a league.

The fun of playing fantasy baseball

• Favorite and least favorite parts of the game
• How can rooting for your home team & rooting for your fantasy teams co-exist?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Waiver Wire

Pitcher Preview

Injury Update

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A lot of tough matchups for the streamer-worthy options could lead to some high scores on Friday night.

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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 »

Welcome to another installment of fastball velocity risers and fallers. For reference, here are a few articles that explain both the process and the importance of increased or decreased velocity when predicting future success:

• Using Game-By-Game Fastball Velocity to Influence SP Sit/Start Decisions by Lucas Kelly
• MLB pitching models should incorporate recency, giving us an intriguing ranks update by Eno Sarris
• Baseball’s ‘Hot Hand’ Is Real by Rob Arthur and Greg Matthews

The data for this article reflects games played through June 19th and only displays Statcast’s four-seam fastball (FF) velocity. 

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