2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: August 4th 2013

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With no rain delays looking likely on tomorrow’s ledger, it will be a pretty smooth and easy day for picking the best possible players.

Player	Team	Opponent	Salary
Scott Kazmir- SP	CLE	Miami	$9,400
Roberto Hernandez – SP	TB	San Francisco	$7,000
Jonathon Lucroy – C	MIL	Washington	$4,300
Edwin Encarnacion – 1B	TOR	Los Angeles Angels	$4,200
Ben Zobrist – 2B	TB	San Francisco	$4,100
Junior Lake – 3B	ChC	Los Angeles Dodgers	$3,000
Hanley Ramirez – SS	LAD	Chicago Cubs	$6,400
Kole Calhoun – OF	LAA	Toronto	$3,100
Kelly Johnson – OF	TB	San Francisco	$4,100
Wil Myers – OF	TB	San Francisco	$4,200

My strategy today is to pick on San Francisco starting pitcher Guillermo Moscoso. Moscoso is a big time fly ball pitcher and the Rays hitters that I picked are hot and/or have home run power. All of Kelly Johnson’s home runs have come against right handed pitching this year. Edwin Encarnacion of the Blue Jays is on absolute fire and gets to face C.J. Wilson (a lefty). Jonathon Lucroy homered two games ago, and Junior Lake is coming off a three game stretch in which he had a two home run performance in one game, and a 4-for-5 performance in another.
Here are some brief recaps with excellent highlights attached for a few of the games last night.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won 3-0 over the Chicago Cubs with many thanks to outfielder Yasiel Puig who made this unbelievable catch , robbing Starlin Castro of a hit. Puig would leave the game with a left wrist contusion however. This comes one day after he made this amazing catch against Darwin Barney.
The Cleveland Indians eeked out a 4-3 win against the Miami Marlins, in what was actually an incredibly exciting game. Must see highlights from this game include: this highlight reel defensive play from Marlins centerfielder Jake Marisnick. Marisnick showed off his what I assume is an 80 grade arm, once again this game with this excellent throw that nearly had Michael Bourn out, on an extremely close play that upon my review, was actually the correct call by much maligned (and rightfully so) umpire Angel Hernandez.
The Reds beat the Cardinals 8-3 behind catcher Devin Mesoraco’s two home runs and this incredible play by second baseman Brandon Phillips.
In other news, Jake Peavy dazzled in his Red Sox debut, striking out seven and giving up just two runs on four hits in seven innings. Also, Wil Myers of the Rays, delivered a walk-off single (had enough to be a double, but bases were loaded with no outs) in the 10[SUP]th[/SUP] inning to bring the Rays a 2-1 victory. David Price threw nine innings in the victory, allowing just one earned run.
Finally, despite five walks, Francisco Liriano threw a seven inning shutout, allowing just two hits. He lowered his ERA to 2.02 in the win over the Rockies.

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