(Vid) Behind The Numbers – Cramming for The Draft
Behind the Numbers – Season 2: Cramming for the Draft When You Don’t Have Enough Time to Prepare
Behind The Numbers Season 2 tries out a new video format which includes pop-up information about the guests and subject matter.
Jonah Keri, New York Times National bestsell author of the Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First joins Behind the Numbers co-host Wayne Parillo and Fantasy Analyst Rob Shaw for a pre-draft cram
session, helping out since Parillo is a new father and hasn’t exactly had time to prepare. Oh, and there is a special Front Office discount code for listeners.
- Buy the Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
- Follow Jonah on Twitter
- Subscribe to The Jonah Keri Podcast on Itunes
Watch all of each episode, or use the links below to jump to that exact point in the episode.
Watch Episode 1
Watch Episode 2Episode 1
- 0:16 – 1:15 Why we’re doing a Cramming episode
- 2:00 – 5:34 All About the Rays and how it affects fantasy
- 5:35 – 7:00 Jose Lopez as a bad real life player
- 7:22 – 8:09 Bad real life players who are sometimes good fantasy players
- 8:26 – 9:30 Jose Reyes: Where is he playing & injury
factors - 10:15 – 11:21 Position Scarcity with short stop
- 11:22- 12:59 SS options: Ian Desmond & Stephen Drew & why Ian Desmond should scare you. Or not.
- 13:05 -16:00 Looking at 3B: Top Performers and where to get them. Including Youk. David Wright. A-Rod
- 16:04 – 17:50 Jose Bautista v David Wright
- 17:45 – 18:40 Ryan Zimmerman v David Wright. Where Rob & Wayne agree to disagree
- 18:45 – 20:21 Aaron Harang moves to Petco and what it means
- 20:17 – 20:45 Why you need to include MORE ballpark
factors - 21:23 – 22:33 Chris Young to CitiField
- 22:25 – 24:15 Adrian Beltre to Texas
- 25:30 – 26:11 Jonah gives his option on Hall of Fame
Voters - 26:09 Wayne reads Jonah’s book to his new born daughter and what happens
Episode 2
- 0:48 – 2:11 All About the Extra 2% and Jonah’s most gratifying reviews
- 2:17 – 5:37 Closer Strategies: Wait or Grab When You Can? And how format matters
- 6:00 – 7:17 A comment from @sabometrics regarding Bobby Jenks as a potential BoSox closer?
- 7:29 – 7:50 JJ Putz: Potential Closer
- 7:49 – 9:25 Jonah Reveals His Strategy for Specing on Potential Saves
- 9:35 – 11:00 More on JJ & Risk
- 11:31 – 14:00 Closers and Setup Guys to Keep an Out For & Jonah’s Super Duper Mega Break Out Potential Pick
- 14:00 – 16:44 Bobby Parnell: Why he could close and why he won’t
- 16:58 – 18:34 Big Names Coming off Injuries and What to Do with Them
- 18:38 – 19:41 Ian Kinsler
- 20:13 – 22:36 Wayne thinks 2B is scarce & Rob thinks it is deep
- 23:11 – 24:27 Jonah’s Final Thoughts on Drafting & Words of Wisdom
- 24:54 – 26:00 A little bit more on the Extra 2%
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