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2012 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Fix: Santana, Hellickson celebrate birthdays, Darvish set to debut

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Carlos Santana

Miguel Cabrera went 3-for-5, with a home run and five runs batted yesterday. Cabrera’s homer came in the bottom of the ninth to send the Tigers and Sox into extra innings. Detroit won the game in the eleventh inning on an Alex Avila home run.

Starlin Castro (4) and Cameron Maybin (2) each swiped two bags yesterday.

Alfredo Aceves and Mark Melancon both blew saves for the Boston Red Sox on Easter Sunday. Daniel Bard, who was named the fifth starter, seems more and more likely to be the best closer candidate for the Sox with Andrew Bailey out until the All-Start Break. 

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Happy Birthday: Carlos Santana was 2-for-4 with two round trippers and three runs batted in yesterday as the Indians defeated the Blue Jays, 4-3, on the same day he celebrated his 26th birthday.

Yonder Alonso of the Padres went 1-for-2, with a single, a run batted in and two walks yesterday, his 25th birthday.

Jeremy Hellickson shoved 8.2 innings of shutout ball, while allowing just three hits and striking out four, to earn his first win of 2012 on his 25th birthday.

With all this Easter birthday success, you may want to consider adding David Robertson, who was born on this day  in 1985. He provides steady ratios, strikeouts and will sneak in a few scab wins and saves. David Robertson is currently owned in just 38% of Y!, 9% of ESPN, 23% of CBS leagues. 

Jay Bruce also hit two jacks on Easter Sunday, one of which was off of Heath Bell in the ninth inning. Jay Bruce now has three on this young season.

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Filling in for the injured Chris Carpenter, Lance Lynn chucked 6.2 innings of solid baseball, surrendering just two hits and one walk, while whiffing eight Brewers en route to his first win of the season. Although yesterday was just Lynn’s third MLB start, he looks to be a nice option in NL-Only formats next week against the Cubs. 

Jeff Samardzija of the Cubs fired 8.2 innings of four-hit ball to earn his first win of 2012. The former Notre Dame football stand out fanned eight Nationals while surrendering three runs and zero free passes. Samardzija is owned in just 13% of Y! leagues.

On this day in 2009, former Los Angeles Angel, Nick Adenhart, was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver just hours after pitching six shutout innings against the Oakland Athletics. 

Jonathon Broxton (1), Carlos Marmol (1), Chris Perez (1), Fernando Rodney (2), Bryan Shaw (1), Brett Myers (1), Jim Johnson (2) and Frank Francisco (3) each recorded saves yesterday.

Pitching duels I’m looking forward to tonight: Hector Noesi (SEA) vs. Yu Darvish (TEX), Ivan Nova (NYY) vs. Brian Matusz (BAL) and Anibal Sanchez (MIA) vs. Cole Hamels (ATL). 

Alright, to be honest, I'm really just looking forward to watching Yu Darvish and his seven-pitch arsenal. The others, however, do have fantasy relevance that should be monitored. 

Stay tuned for TheFantasyFix.com podcast this week. Brett Talley will be joined by guests Dan Brooks and Harry Pavlidis of BrooksBaseball.net, as well as Eno Sarris of Fangraphs.com. 

Written by Alan Harrison exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com

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