There aren’t many big changes since our first iteration of this series, but knowing that it’s draft time, I’ll be keeping you posted on hitters every other day until the season starts! Here’s the playing time swings of at least 70 plate appearances since Monday.
The Relief Pitcher episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Greg Jewett
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Closer Situations
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Following up on yesterday’s post going over position player playing time changes, we now turn our attention to the pitchers. Unlike hitters, where all playing time is shown in plate appearances, we’re splitting into two tables here. Starters are shown with games started, and relievers are shown with relief innings. When looking at our projections on a player page, you’ll notice that for all relievers, innings and games pitched are the same; that’s just how our projection system works to allocate reliever innings. I’d pay more attention to the innings, since the projected games pitched number will often be higher than the actually-expected number simply to inflate a pitcher’s innings to what we feel is accurate.
Hi everyone, and welcome to the first iteration of Position Player Playing Time Changes! Since this is the first one of these, I wanted to lay out my process here with Opening Day fast approaching.
Our Depth Charts projections are extremely fluid, and RosterResource guru Jason Martinez makes many tweaks and larger changes every day. Knowing that, we found it prudent to provide a snapshot of the recent changes, looking at the last week. All we’re doing is pulling projected plate appearances for March 3, and comparing those to March 10.
The Mixed LABR Auction Recap episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Justin Mason
TGFBI
Mixed LABR Auction
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The Mock Draft episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Joe Pisapia
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Mock Draft
By Round
By Team
Mock Draft Recap
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The Starting Pitcher episode – Part II – of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Nick Pollack
ATC Undervalued Players
Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week
ATC Overvalued Pitchers
Injury Update
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The Starting Pitcher episode – Part I – of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Nick Pollack
FSWA Nomination
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The Outfield & THE BAT episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Derek Carty
THE BAT Projections
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The smiles appear before the response.
Ask a few Orioles hitters for their immediate reactions to news that the club is moving in the left field wall, and their approval can be seen on their faces.
The above quote came from the Orioles caravan and got me thinking about how projections incorporate three new park changes.
I’ve seen the park changes referenced in articles and pods for reasons to fade or target certain players. I lean on projections and assume that they incorporate dimensions into account when they create their projections. If the changes are already accounted for, I don’t want to overrate affected players. After looking over various projections, most seem to take the changes into account, but some haven’t yet. Read the rest of this entry »