Episode 743- Strategy, Stashes and More!

Host: Justin Mason @JustinMasonFWFB
Co-Host: Dave McDonald @RunDMCD

News
Luis Robert still out - wrist
Laureano hurt - side
Schwarber still out calf
Carrasco oblique
Jonathan India scratched
DJLM still out, getting MRI on toe
Returning Rays: Margot, Harold Ramirez, Wander
Buehler surgery done for the year
Tatis done for the year PEDs
Chris Sale broken wrist riding bike
Springer back
CJ Abrams recalled
Chris Woodward fired

Topics

Setting lineups
Hitters: Maximizing Volume vs Using Intuition
# of games in week or half-week
Matchups
Platoon splits
Righty/Lefty
Home/Away
Quality of pitchers
Playing time
Ex: Sal Perez plays 7/7 games; Dozier 5/7ish
Hitter metrics
Overall vs recent production
Pitchers:
2x SP vs better 1x SP
1 good 1 bad start
1 good 1 mediocre start
Matchups
SP splits Home/Away
Opposing Offense splits wRC+
Righty/Lefty
Home/Away
Last 14 days


EARTH update
GLARF still on top
BARF still sucks (outside of Sammy Reid)
NERF up to 2nd
SLARF/TARF battling for 3rd
Ray Butler down to 3rd!
Jeff Erickson 1st
Ryan Venancio 2nd