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2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: March 31

The 2014 Major League Baseball season brings new life to all 30 teams, and it also brings a new fantasy sports partnership between The Fantasy Fix and DraftStreet.

DraftStreet offers so many daily sports games, and what better time to start playing at DraftStreet than on Opening Day? To begin, if you don’t yet have an account at DraftStreet use this link and by doing so you’ll get a 100 percent deposit bonus up to a $200 deposit.

Now after you sign up you’ll have plenty of games to choose from to play. You can take part in an Opening Day freeroll for today’s games. It costs absolutely nothing to play, but there’s a $500 prize pool with the top 50 places getting paid out. If you’re an experienced player and want to play in a higher-stakes game, you can play in an Opening Day cash game that’s $11 to enter but has a $20,000 prize pool where first place wins $3,000 and the top 300 places earn winnings. These games are of the salary cap style. For example, on the freeroll above there are 12 roster spots with a $100,000 salary cap. So you can pick 12 players at close to even values, or you can pick five studs and seven lower-cost players. It’s your choice, and that’s what makes Daily Fantasy Sports at DraftStreet exciting.

If you’re not familiar with The Daily Fix, we’ll bring you daily fantasy sports advice each day early in the morning. We’ll provide you with opportunities at DraftStreet as well as roster advice for whom to select each day to plug into your roster.

DraftStreet features the following scoring settings for its daily fantasy baseball games:

DS Points

Now, here are your DraftStreet value plays for Monday, March 31.

Catcher: Yadier Molina – $6,773 – Ever since the brouhaha in Cincinnati a few years ago between the Reds and Cardinals it seems like Molina has been a beast when the Cardinals play in Cincinnati.

First base: Brandon Moss – $6,759 – Moss hit righties to the tune of a .904 OPS last year, and opposing starter Justin Masterson struggles against lefties.

Second base: Anthony Rendon – $5,735 – Rendon is really cheap in what should be a good matchup for him.

Third base: Pedro Alvarez – $5,874 – Alvarez hit 33 of his 36 homers last year against righties and had a .842 OPS against them.

Shortstop: Brad Miller – $6,577 – Miller doesn’t have a very intimidating matchup against Jered Weaver today. He’s middle of the pack in cost, but I think he could have a good game.

Outfield: Giancarlo Stanton $7,116; Andrew McCutchen $8,314; Bryce Harper $8,018 – Stanton has a .950 career OPS against lefties and had a 1.006 OPS against them last year. McCutchen is costly, but he averaged the fourth most points per game last year among outfielders. I thought Harper was a good value as he has a good matchup against Dillon Gee.

Utility: Matt Holliday – $7,966 – Holliday has a .869 career OPS against Johnny Cueto and a career .881 OPS at Cincinnati.

Starting pitchers: Jose Fernandez $19,352; Julio Teheran $15,022 – Fernandez had a 1.19 ERA and a 0.85 WHIP at home last year. Teheran is a good cheaper play who has a good shot at getting a win and a few strikeouts.

Pitcher: Trevor Rosenthal – $1,836 – I didn’t have enough money to go for a third starter, so I took a reliever I think has a good chance at pitching. But with relievers it’s just going to be a crap shoot so go for the high-strikeout guys.

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