Welcome to a bonus edition of the daily fix. At least, it is a bonus one from me. You will hear from me again tomorrow. Last week we learned an important lesson as it pertains to daily baseball. Everyone makes mistakes and I made one last week. At least, a mistake happened at press time. The Astros sent down Robbie Grossman and brought George Springer up. That changed happened after I had locked in my article. So, I came away looking bad.

We can write it off as a laugh and move or take it as a learning experience. Draftstreet allows you to make lineup changes almost up to the minute, so when you put in your lineup, it pays to keep paying attention to the news cycle in case there is a last second injury or roster change. The important thing to keep in mind is that these articles are designed to run at 6 AM EST. So, it has to finished and edited before that. All lineups represent our best guess the night before the game.

That being said, many of you are used to seeing Brett Talley’s opinions here. I use a similar strategy as others on the site. It is something others have called stacking. Essentially you find the weak pitchers and start as many players as you can against those pitchers. As you might imagine, Draftstreet alters the salaries depending on who players are up against. So, it can be difficult to stack, but it is the most sure fire way to win as often as you can.

It is our normal course to offer some alternatives in case something like last week happens. Of course, this lineup above is designed to get as close to the cap as possible, so swapping one player for another is sometimes not in the cards. Sometimes, you have to make more than one change to make the salaries work. You’ve been forewarned.