Catcher's Corner: Biases, blind spots, and the danger of attachments
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Sami (@Believe_Sami) and Eric (@SamskiNYC) blend fantasy baseball analysis with fantasy baseball therapy as they discuss personal biases, blind spots, and why we create such attachments to players on our teams. They end with a therapy-style breakthrough on the best way to approach FAAB. Through all of this, they’ll discuss Brent Rooker, Nathan Eovaldi, Pablo Lopez, Jake Fraley, Triston Casas, Jake Burger, Matthew Liberatore, and many more. Rundown How aware are you of your own biases and are biases just a result of managing out of fear? What are your blind spots? Can we control our blindspots if we know they’re there?  Why do we have such blind spots for rookies? We just continually expect them to pop and we hold them too long when not many really hit. Is there a more efficient waiver wire strategy that caters to the long-term nature of fantasy baseball? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eric-samulski/support
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