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

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

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April 30, 2026 · 1h 14m · Episode 222

About this episode

The episode features an interview with injury expert Will Carroll discussing injury projections and their impact on fantasy baseball.

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 - Under The Knife , is only $5 a month and something Rob and I both use and reference often. Go check it out! 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 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 ‘injury projections’ - What information are we missing to improve the injury risk projections? “Teams /players lie about injuries’ - How different are medical staff and research/player development groups from organization to organization ? V elocity vs injuries - when you see a pitcher throwing harder, do you think ‘that’s good news’ or is that a red flag? How hard is too hard Other than decreased pitch velo , what’s an injury signal fantasy players can realistically track weekly that you think is underutilized? Is public data missing important signals? best indicator of…

People in this episode

Host: Rob

Guest: Will Carroll

Topics covered

  • injury projections
  • fantasy baseball
  • player performance
  • injury risk
  • pitcher velocity
  • injury signals

Keywords

  • fantasy baseball
  • injury information
  • player performance
  • injury risk projections
  • pitcher velocity
  • injury prone hitters

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Under The Knife

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