Five Expert Baseball Draft Prep Tips

Five Expert Baseball Draft Prep Tips

Author: RotoWire.com February 10, 2025 Duration: 52:15

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.

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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


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