The 2025 Pre-Season Injury episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

• When should you draft injury risk?
• How does the league format factor into taking on injury risk?
• What are the different types of baseball injuries and recovery timetables?

Injury Updates and Discussion

• Hitters
  • Gunnar Henderson
  • Ronald Acuna Jr.
  • Royce Lewis
  • Byron Buxton
  • Bobby Witt Jr.
  • Christian Walker
  • Giancarlo Stanton
  • Freddie Freeman
  • Mookie Betts
  • Jurickson Profar
  • Brandon Nimmo
  • Francisco Alvarez
  • Matt Vierling
  • Parker Meadows
  • Sean Murphy
  • Spencer Steer
  • Nico Hoerner
  • Zach Neto
  • Tyler Stephenson
  • Jesus Sanchez
  • Jung Hoo Lee
  • Daulton Varsho
  • Jeff McNeil
• Pitchers
  • Jacob deGrom
  • Spencer Strider
  • Gerritt Cole
  • Luis Gil
  • Clarke Schmidt
  • Sean Manaea
  • Frankie Montas
  • George Kirby
  • Clayton Kershaw
    • Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
  • Max Scherzer
  • Jared Jones
  • Tobias Myers
  • Brayan Bello
  • Kutter Crawford
  • Cody Bradford
  • Grayson Rodriguez
  • Yu Darvish
  • Brandon Woodruff
  • Ranger Suarez
  • Shane Bieber

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With the season over, it’s to find out how hitters performed who didn’t let an injury heal and played through the pain. Whether these hitters cause permanent damage to their bodies or pick up bad habits, they continue to underperform their projections. Besides collecting the names myself, I’ve asked for some help (article) for this past season’s list.

First, here is a look at how 2023 hitters performed compared to their Steamer projections. Read the rest of this entry »

MLB.com has a unique news section where each team updates their injuries and transactions. I’ve found this information useful but it’s unique. Each team’s webpage (not an article) is in flux with information constantly appearing and disappearing. I plan to check for updates (each blurb is dated) and report any information. I’ll quote the page to preserve the information. The information disappears into the abyss so quoting the source is the only way to keep it.

I won’t report headline news but will try to dig a little deeper. Additionally, I want this article to be a quick reference so don’t expect a certain word count. I’ll provide the useful info and then fantasy managers can figure out how best to utilize it.

The last edition was on October 11th, so any news was taken after that date.

Mining the News Archive
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MLB.com has a unique news section where each team updates their injuries and transactions. I’ve found this information useful but it’s unique. Each team’s webpage (not an article) is in flux with information constantly appearing and disappearing. I plan to check for updates (each blurb is dated) and report any information. I’ll quote the page to preserve the information. The information disappears into the abyss so quoting the source is the only way to keep it.

I won’t report headline news but will try to dig a little deeper. Additionally, I want this article to be a quick reference so don’t expect a certain word count. I’ll provide the useful info and then fantasy managers can figure out how best to utilize it.

The last edition was on October 4th, so any news was taken on or after that date.

Mining the News Archive
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For several seasons I’ve attempted to collect the hitters who have played through an injury. These banged-up guys underperformed their projection by ~20 points of OPS the next season. That works out to a 5% drop in production. What I need is help trying to collect all the possible batters while this season is still fresh in everyone’s mind. Here are the names I have so far:

Does anyone know of any others and I’d love to have a link to verify? I’ll assemble a complete list with the links in a future article. Thanks.

MLB.com has a unique news section where each team updates their injuries and transactions. I’ve found this information useful but it’s unique. Each team’s webpage (not an article) is in flux with information constantly appearing and disappearing. I plan to check for updates (each blurb is dated) and report any information. I’ll quote the page to preserve the information. The information disappears into the abyss so quoting the source is the only way to keep it.

I won’t report headline news but will try to dig a little deeper. Additionally, I want this article to be a quick reference so don’t expect a certain word count. I’ll provide the useful info and then fantasy managers can figure out how best to utilize it.

Enjoy and please give me any suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »

With two prominent players, Mike Trout and J.T. Realmuto, just needing meniscus surgery, I examined hitter production before and after surgery. With a limited sample, some struggles should be expected. Read the rest of this entry »

The Injured List Debate episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Injured List Debate

• A full in-depth debate about the pros and cons of playing with an injured list in fantasy baseball.

Twitter/X Comments

• Your Twitter/X comments on the pros and cons of playing with an injured list in fantasy baseball.

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The Pre-Season Injury episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

• Important medical terminology for injuries
  • Ligaments, tendons, etc.
  • Strains vs. sprains
• Long-term injuries
  • Shoulder vs. Elbow for pitchers
  • Hitter injuries

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Injured Players

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With Jacob deGrom and Walker Buehler coming back from their second Tommy John surgery (TJS), I wanted to go back and look at how pitchers performed after going under the knife a second time. While I had high hopes this study would find some useful adjustments, the results were mixed and probably point to the pitcher being more of the same. Read the rest of this entry »