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

Guest: Vlad Sedler

Strategy Section

• When to seat cold players and when to cut them?
  • Is it different for batters and pitchers?
• Cut injured players in non-IL slot leagues
  • Eloy Jimenez
  • How many FAAB should I spend on a wound pool?
• FAAB
  • Go with your instincts.
  • When should you overspend on FAAB?
  • Be consistent with how the rest of the league spends FAAB dollars.
  • FAAB from a return on investment perspective.
  • FAAB pricing also depends on the pool of players available.
  • Review positional and categorical needs of other teams before setting FAAB bids.
• FAAB General Tender Guidelines
  • Broadcast options
  • Hot players
  • Speed
  • Closings and speculative closings

Waiver Wire

Injury Guru’s Weekly Trivia

Launcher preview

Mailbag

• Buy low players: Bryan Reynolds and Ketel Marte
• What to do with the players you were high on during draft season who struggled early on?
• Based on what happened in the first month of 2022, how might you write differently in 2023?
• Pitchers returning from injury
• Tony the Tiger
• Soft ball !
• Francois Lindor

Injury Update – Reuven gives us injury updates.

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