The Injury Returnee Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Strategy Section

• Should you immediately insert injury returnees into your active fantasy lineups?
  • Hitters vs. Pitchers

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The NL West Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Derek Van Riper

All-Star Game Thoughts

Strategy Section

• What are you doing from a fantasy standpoint with your time at the all-star break?
• Using Rest of Season Projections
  • ATC Rest of Season Projections
  • Auction Calculator
  • When do you stop using pre-season projections?
• Looking at recent performance
  • What is the proper time frame to use for a recent player snapshot?
• How to tell the difference between underperformance and injury?

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With the Ottoneu Prestige League about to hit the knockout rounds, there are about 40 teams still scrambling to figure out what to do ahead of the final OPL snap for the season. There are another 200 teams wondering what went wrong this year and thinking about next year. And perhaps there are many other managers looking forward to their first foray into OPL in 2023 and wondering how to prep.

One of the most debated topics among OPL managers is what changes to make ahead of each snapshot – do I bail on this injured player? Do I hold this prospect? Should I drop this underperforming player? I want to look into some of these questions over the next few weeks and into the off-season, but today we’ll start with a quantitative question: how much should my team turn over round-to-round?

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The AL Central Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jeff Zimmerman

Strategy Section / Mailbag

• What to look at / reasoning for setting weekly pitching lineups.
• How to accumulate “risk” & other strategies if behind in the standings and trying to catch up.
• How many points behind first place is it not too late to catch up to first?
• Sell high on Julio Rodriguez?

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The FAAB Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Scott Jenstad

Strategy Section

• FAAB / Waiver Wire
  • How has the waiver wire changed over the past few seasons?
    • Is it more important or less important?
  • When to enter FAAB during the week.
  • Looking at “your” team.
  • How playing with a partner helps with waiver wire pickups.
  • What to look for when picking up players?
  • What to look for when dropping players?
  • How much FAAB should you have left over at the All-Star break?
  • Does prior league bidding affect your FAAB bids?
  • Does current team FAAB amounts affect your FAAB bids?

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The AL West Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jennifer Piacenti

Strategy Section

• Head to Head Points leagues
  • Thoughts on the format
  • Are there ways to improve the format from a fairness perspective?
• Other potential format improvements for leagues

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The Call-Ups Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Pierre Camus

Strategy Section

• General strategy regarding June Call-Ups / mid-season prospects
• Are hitter call-ups more or less valuable / reliable than pitcher call-ups?
• Trading prospects in redraft leagues

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The NL East Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Ellen Adair

Strategy Section

• Do you ever root against your home team in favor of players on your fantasy team?
• In depth knowledge of your home team and how it helps or hurts in playing fantasy baseball.

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The AL East Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Jason Collette

Strategy Section

• Is it time yet to think about punting categories in roto leagues?
  • Punt speed? Punt saves?
  • Punt ERA?
• How do you know when to use the waiver wire vs. resorting to a trade?

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

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The Prospects Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Eric Cross

Strategy Section

• How important is it for fantasy redraft players to be aware of prospects?
  • Does it differ for hitters vs. pitchers?
  • Is it more important to know about prospects pre-draft or during the season?
• Royce Lewis
  • What is Minnesota’s positional plan for him?
• Struggling Prospects
  • How much did the missed 2020 season play into this year’s struggling prospect crop?
    • How does it change how you approach prospects for fantasy in 2022?
• Top prospects in baseball & top impact prospects for 2022
  • Corbin Carroll
  • Robert Hassell III
  • Cal Mitchell
  • Riley Greene
  • C.J. Abrams
  • Adley Rutschman
  • Grayson Rodriguez
  • Noelvi Marte
  • Jordan Walker
  • Triston Casas
  • Vinnie Pasquantino
  • Miguel Vargas

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