Opening Day — at least in the northern hemisphere — is now here! Stick with the Roto Riteup, brought to you by DraftKings, for relevant fantasy baseball news from yesterday and picks for today. The Daily Five will be an ongoing subsection of the Roto Riteup where Zach Sanders and I will recommend certain players that we see as good picks that day. In order to play, you sign up for free and then select your 10-man roster and spend as much of the allotted $50,000 filling up your lineup card.

On today’s agenda:
1. Clayton Kershaw to the disabled list
2. Rajai Davis‘ value
3. Jenrry Mejia to the rotation
4. The Daily Five

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Soon. More baseball is coming soon. We were teased with a taste of real games already, but now the season will be upon us shortly.

On today’s agenda:
1. Carlos Quentin may open the season on the disabled list
2. Lingering wrist issues for Mark Teixeira
3. Grady Sizemore named starting center fielder
4. Doug Fister to open the season the DL
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Before we get started on the fantasy baseball news, let us acknowledge and celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Futurama.” That’s right, 15 years ago my favorite cartoon — barely edging out “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Archer” — debuted. Normally I would have a scene or clip picked out to link to, however attempting to boil Futurama down to a single clip is impossible. Since the debut and the original four seasons, it has spawned four movies (okay, really a fifth season) and two additional seasons. Personally I think Futurama’s (multiple) endings have sewn up the show for me, however I would not be against additional seasons; I’m looking at you, Netflix.

On today’s agenda:
1. Cole Hamels officially on the disabled list
2. Corey Kluber is still available
3. The hot corner on the north side
4. Archie Bradley to Triple-A
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Today’s Roto Riteup is brought to you by this inspired Groundskeeper Willie compilation, as well as this tranquil image, which should help you to relax on this Wednesday morning.

On today’s agenda:
1. Marco Scutaro’s ailing back
2. Roenis Elias makes Mariners’ rotation
3. Vance Worley heads to Pittsburgh
4. Lance Lynn’s weird spring

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Tomorrow will mark the 12th anniversary of the Taking Back Sunday album Tell All Your Friends. This album more than any other had a big effect on me back in high school and I’ll admit this song played on my MySpace page. As a matter of fact, I still put this album on the ol’ record played and jam to some old school alternative rock.

On the agenda:
1. Geovany Soto to miss 10-12 weeks
2. Trevor Bauer to the minors
3. Billy Hamilton: Shortstop?

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Welcome to the first Monday edition of the 2014 Roto Riteup. I was hanging out with my nearly five-year-old cousin, so I asked him to write up an introduction for today’s edition.

“You should say something nice. You should write everything is awesome. Kung-Fu Panda. You should write Po. You should write something on wrestling.”

On today’s agenda:
1. Jurickson Profar out 3 months
2. Joe Kelly as fifth starter, dream ruiner
3. Tanner Roark vs Jenrry Mejia

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With two games that matter already under our belt, let’s dive into today’s Roto Riteup.

On the agenda:
1. A brief breakdown of last night’s starters
2. The Houston Astros bullpen
3. Skip Schumaker to miss up to a month
4. Jake Odorizzi named Tampa Bay’s fifth starter

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Welcome to official start of the 2014 season! Hopefully by the time you’re reading this it is the afternoon, because you slept in after waking up at 4 am to watch a baseball game. That’s the behavior of a normal person, right?

On the agenda:
1. Bruce Rondon to have Tommy John surgery
2. Tanner Scheppers continues to impress
3. More injuries for the Cincinnati Reds
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Welcome back! Today marks the first Roto Riteup of the 2014 season with yours truly. Just like last season as well as 2012, Zach Sanders and I will be bringing you relevant fantasy baseball tidbits from the previous day.

On the agenda:
1. David Freese’s RBI chances
2. Addison Reed officially named closer
3. Jose Iglesias could miss the entire season
4. Los Angeles Dodgers lineup notes
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Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Roto Riteup. The season may not actually begin for another few days, but we’re back early to brief you on some of the goings-on.

If you’re new to the program or need a refresher, you’ll find the Roto Riteup on RotoGraphs every day during the 2014 season. Here, Professor Pony (you may know him as David Wiers) and I cover interesting tidbits going around the realm of fantasy baseball at an ungodly hour of the morning. If you have suggestions for what you’d like to see out of the 2014 Roto Riteup — other than an award, because we’ve already thought of that — please let us know in the comments.

On the agenda:
1. Yordano Ventura to get 180+ innings
2. Mike Minor to miss at least a couple weeks
3. Jhoulys Chacin to miss a month
4. Fun with arbitrary endpoints

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