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2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: July 13th 2013

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Today is quite a risky day to play. With the All-Star Game on the horizon many excellent players, and even more role players will be randomly getting a day off either today (Saturday) or tomorrow (Sunday). That said, given the risk level, there is a chance to win some money if the opposition (other players competing) get lazy.

With so many likely players out tomorrow for random reasons, the best strategy in a situation like this is to just stack your lineup with each and every player in the offensive lineup for a team going up against one of the worst starting pitchers in the league.

Today it’s Todd Redmond, a fly-ball pitcher with a severe case of gopheritis. He goes for the Blue Jays against the white-hot Baltimore Orioles in Camden Yards. Unfortunately given how incredible the entire Baltimore Oriole lineup is, they are high priced. This forces me to use these pretty bad pitchers:

Pitcher: Samuel Deduno: Deduno actually hasn’t been bad this season, so let me rephrase that last sentence. He’s incredibly untrustworthy. He had six quality starts in his last seven starts heading into a July 8th meeting at the Trop. He surrendered two home runs in the seventh inning, but wasn’t exactly lighting it up until then. His overall line was 10 hits, five runs, two walks and just three strikeouts in 6+ innings (he pitched in the seventh but did not retire a batter). He costs the minimum though, just $5,000. He faces the Yankees, and although they lit up Ervin Santana on Thursday, how good is a team that is batting Vernon Wells cleanup? Yes, Vernon Wells. The guy who hit .133/.143/.147 in June; that’s a .290 OPS.

Pitcher: Dallas Keuchel: Keuchel is probably one of the worst pitchers in baseball, there’s no denying it. However, call me crazy, but I think given the fact that before his last start against the Rays (eight hits, five earned runs, five walks and four strikeouts in 4.2 innings), Keuchel rattled off five straight quality starts. And, on top of that, Keuchel spun five innings of six hit ball, allowing two runs while striking out four and walking just one against the Rangers in Arlington last time out. Start him, and grab some booze and have it handy.

Lineup:

All Orioles today as previously mentioned:

C- Matt Wieters | $4,300

1B- Chris Davis | $6,800

2B- Brian Roberts | $3,900

3B- Manny Machado | $5,200

SS- J.J. Hardy | $4,400

OF- Adam Jones | $5,800

OF- Nate McLouth | $4,500

OF- Nick Markakis | $5,000

On top of the fact that the Orioles have the best offenses, they also have one of the leagues’ worst benches. Even if one of these guys sits, they should definitely do enough against Redmond. And besides, they are hot. They scored eight runs against Buehrle last night.

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