Good morning everyone! It’s another day, another edition of “The Daily Double Switch.” Hopefully everyone enjoyed a great holiday and you all are ready to make a strong push up until the break!

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Weather

After a gigantic storm took out trees and all the power at my house, Mother Nature has decided to let me take today off from this little blurb. No weather concerns at all today, folks.

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Positional Breakdown

Starting Pitchers

If you like rocket science, picking a pitcher today is not going to be fun for you. If you like easy puzzles and you get super excited when you figure them out, congratulations, it’s your day. It will be Yu Darvish against the Astros and Chris Sale against the Red Sox, plus as a bonus, Mad Max and Grienke duel each other. If you’re looking outside of these four guys, don’t stray too far please, it’s not too difficult. Darvish owns the Astros and shouldn’t have any trouble dazzling them with his fantastic K/9 and unhittable stuff. Chris Sale doesn’t like coming off the mound and should have no trouble picking and choosing his way around a Red Sox lineup with a lot of holes. If you’re going to pay up, I think the safe play is Yu, but all four of these guys warrant some lineup space today.

Catcher

I often try to think of something fun to say to lead off a certain position, but catcher is no fun. Plus, nothing really cool goes with “Wilin Rosario.” Anyway, he’s my guy today against the left-handed Eric Stults at home in Coors Field. Rosario sports a .356 ISO this season against southpaws and has the added bonus of being at home today. He’ll be a popular play, but one that you should capitalize on.

First Baseman

It would be really easy to just keep taking advantage of the game at Coors and essentially offer up a player at each of those positions, but I’ll go a different direction at first. I’ll take a trip to a “Big City,” and test my luck with Matt Adams. Adams, a Pennsylvania native faces off against the Buccos again in St. Louis tonight, and the matchup is tasty. Adams who has been red-hot and has his average on the year up to an astounding .331 should be a tough out for right-hander Brandon Cumpton. Adams is hitting .369 on the year against right-handed guys, over 150 points better than his average against southpaws. Plus if you’re into fun stats, he owns a .352 average at home.

Second Baseman

Based on Kyle Gibson’s game log, you would have to assume that he’ll probably throw a gem tonight after getting pummeled in his last start. I’m perfectly fine with him twirling a gem as long as he allows a few homeruns to M’s second baseman, Robinson Cano. Cano frequently finds himself in this spot, but that’s what happens when you’re the best player at your position by a large margin. He’s up to six homers, and the average will always be above .300; use him confidently.

Third Baseman

I vowed to stack against Dallas Keuchel all season until it worked, and I later retracted that vow, but I’ll still pick on him occasionally. Today feels like one of those days to take a chance against him with red hot, Adrian Beltre. Beltre has been phenomenal lately and has continued to be exceptional against left-handed pitching. While Keuchel has been fairly decent all season long, he has been dinged up a tad more by right-handed guys. Beltre doesn’t fall into the “just another right-hander” category though, he’s an elite hitter who is currently seeing the ball really well, the matchup is right. A reminder, Beltre is sporting a .414 OBP against lefties this season.

Shortstop

Troy Tulowitzki. Move on guys, it’s that easy. Tulo, at home, against a left-hander… the left-hander is Eric Stults.

Outfield

It’s been a while since I selected an outfielder with an exceptional beard and really shaggy hair, but I’m going to go there. I’ll double down on Jayson Werth today against Wie-Yin Chen in what presents itself as a “cross-town” rivalry between the Nats and the O’s. Werth is good against left-handed pitchers. Let me rephrase that, Werth is really good against left-handed pitchers. He’s hitting lefties to the tune of .375 with a .458 OBP and an OPS above .900. Sometimes he gets lost in the shuffle in D.C. thanks to Harper and Strasburg, but Werth can play, and you should play him.

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