EP 223 | Leveraging Injury Information for Fantasy Baseball w/ Will Carroll

<p>Rob and I welcome Will Carroll onto the show, who has been covering the game for 24 years and has a long history of being a well respected injury expert. His Substack - <a href="https://substack.com/@undertheknife" target="_blank">Under The Knife</a>, is only $5 a month and something Rob and I both use and reference often. Go check it out!</p><p>This pod is going to be released on the public side, so given that the last two were public, the next two will be for Patreon only. I am currently working on lining up some other guests as well</p><p><br></p><ul><li><p>Evaluating which injured players will likely return at their normal level of play vs players who are likely to be materially worse when they return</p><ul><li><p><strong>‘injury projections’</strong> - What information are we missing to improve the injury risk projections?</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>“Teams</strong>/players lie about injuries’ -</p></li><li><p>How <strong>different are medical staff and research/player development groups from organization to organization</strong>?</p></li><li><p>V<strong>elocity vs injuries </strong>- when you see a pitcher throwing harder, do you think ‘that’s good news’ <strong>or is that a red flag? How hard is too hard</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Other than decreased pitch velo</strong>, what’s an injury signal fantasy players can realistically track weekly that you think is underutilized? Is public data missing important signals?</p></li><li><p><strong>best indicator of future injuries is past injuries.</strong></p></li><li><p> With pitchers that makes perfect sense. </p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Are there injury prone hitters</strong>? <strong>is Royce Lewis broken </strong>and this is just who he is or could he play 155 games 5 years in a row?)....HE IS BROKEN!</p></li></ul><li><p>Normal offseason (for players like Buxton, deGrom) and its impact for performancet</p><p>thoughts on Driveline</p><p><br></p><p>Launch Angle and PullHitter Merch<a href="https://pullhittermerch.myshopify.com/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>Come join the Pull Hitter Patreon where you can find more Launch Angle Podcasts and much more. THE Discord is highly active and informative. Access to that and off-season player breakdown series and breakdowns of my own drafts.</p><p> <a href="https://patreon.com/user?u=32383693&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/user?u=32383693&amp;utm_medium=clipboard_copy&amp;utm_source=copyLink&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=join_link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>Make sure to follow the podcast on:Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LaunchAnglePod">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/LaunchAnglePod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>Email: launchanglebaseballpod@gmail.com</p><p>Rob DiPietro also hosts the Pullhitter Podcast, you can give that a listen if you have not done so already. Interviewing NFBC players, fantasy baseball analysts talking about roster construction, game theory and everything fantasy baseball.</p><p>Drop us a line if you want to talk more baseball and have any questions.</p><p>Ratings and reviews go far in helping the show. Please show your support of the pod by doing so, it goes far in helping others find the show</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></li>