Five Expert Baseball Draft Prep Tips

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Ariel Cohen joins Jeff Erickson to share how he prepares for draft season, how he creates the ATC Projections and what you need to know about them, and we also break down the Mets. --- 00:00 Draft Prep Tactics, ATC, Mets 00:30 Welcome to Ariel Cohen 01:15 How Do You Get Started? 04:20 The ATC Projections Process 06:45 Big Changes Altering our Data 12:45 Undervalued Players This Year 16:00 Drafting Bottom Up 17:45 Fantrax 18:45 Converting Projections into Rankings 20:10 Z-Score Method 24:00 Devising the “Gaming” Strategy 27:00 Chasing Scarcer Categories 27:15 Are Stolen Bases Truly Scarce? 28:15 Saves Are Indeed Scarcer 29:30 Tanner Scott 32:40 EDGE Boost 33:25 BlueWire 33:35 Mets Talk 34:45 Clay Holmes 36:40 Frankie Montas 37:45 Edwin Diaz 38:50 Juan Soto 40:15 Pete Alonso 42:30 Young Hitters - Vientos/Alvarez/Acuña 46:00 Old Hitters - Nimmo/Marte/McNeil/Winker 48:30 Potential Prospect Contributions --- EDGE Boost EDGE Boost is the financial platform for smart bettors and DFS players. What are the benefits of a dedicated EDGE Boost betting account? Earn up to 0.5% on every deposit Free to use, no minimum balances FDIC-insured accounts Unlimited withdraws back to card Lightning fast deposits and withdraws Sign up with promo code ROTOPOD today! Fantrax Sign up for Fantrax FREE today and you’ll be entered to win an Official MLB signed jersey from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Simply visit this link to sign up today. Hyperlink: https://www.fantrax.com/rotowire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	the Super Bowl is over.
0:02.6	It is officially baseball draft season.
0:05.9	I've got Ariel Cohen joining me today on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:10.0	Excited to talk about all sorts of baseball draft prep and tips and things to get ready for this baseball season.
0:15.7	All coming up next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:31.8	Thank you. next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by the good
0:36.5	folks over at fan tracks and
0:38.8	edge boost. I'm Jeff Erickson here with Ariel Cohen. You know Ariel Cohen. He's from the ATC
0:44.3	projections. Catch it, you know, catch them everywhere on Twitter. Everywhere on the internet.
0:49.4	He's doing great work. Ariel, quickly tell everybody where they can find your work and then we'll
0:53.9	launch into this, uh, our topics for the day. Yeah, well, tell everybody where they can find your work and then we'll launch
0:54.2	into this
0:54.7	our topics for the day. Yeah, well, ATC projections are on a number of sites including fan graphs, rotobolar, and roto wire. Yes. Check them out there. My written work is over at fan graphs and at rotoballer and you can catch the Beat the Shift podcast just nominated for an FSWA podcast award.
0:55.5	Congratulations. at Roto Boehler and you can catch the beat the shift podcast just nominated for an FSWA
1:13.2	podcast award.
1:14.5	Congrats to yours as well, Roto Wire as well nominated.
1:17.9	Yeah.
1:18.2	And we're thrilled to be there and well deserving for you.
1:21.7	Congratulations.
1:23.0	You guys, you do great work.
1:25.2	You know, all the stuff that you do at your outlets is great.
1:29.2	I love having you on.
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