The present author must apologize. Yesterday was Star Wars Day and the RotoGraphs readers went uninformed. Of course, a reasonable assumption could be made that a Venn diagram of Star Wars nerds and fantasy baseball nerds would overlap significantly, but the author digresses.

On today’s agenda:
1. Hanley Ramirez back to the disabled list
2. The return of Didi Gregorius
3. Michael Saunders‘ two home runs day
4. Alex Avila alert (and alliteration)
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In a mere 22 days, Arrested Development will make a triumphant return. In the mean time, the Arrested Development documentary that was released yesterday should be able to hold you over.

On today’s agenda:
1. Neil Walker to the disabled list
2. Drew Stubbs is hitting
3. The return of Jhoulys Chacin
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Today is Space Day! As a young lad, the present author fondly remembers a family trip to the Kennedy Space Center (as well as Disney World) back in the mid 1990’s. With the Curiosity rover is still exploring Mars, NASA and space exploration in general is always good to hear. As Bill Nye famously said: “science rules!”

On today’s agenda:
1. Yuniesky Betancourt to first base
2. The return of Aramis Ramirez
3. Ryan Zimmerman returns, Anthony Rendon sent down
4. Another Justin Grimm quality start
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Today’s Roto Riteup was written under the influence of awesome.

On today’s agenda:
1. Injury Notes galore!

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It is no small secret that the present author is an Oakland Athletics fan. While not a baseball historian by any means — and too young to remember this event and subsequent speech live — on this date 22 year ago, Rickey Henderson became the “greatest of all time.”

On today’s agenda:
1. Andrelton Simmons is coming around
2. Musings on Marco Estrada
3. The Los Angeles Angels swap leadoff hitters
4. Tim Hudson earns win number 200
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As of writing, today’s Roto Riteup author is currently the third best relief pitcher in FanGraphs: The Game.

On today’s agenda:
1. Ryan Zimmerman hopefully back this week
2. Yoenis Cespedes returns, everyone hates Casper
3. Strange and Spectacular Starts to the Season

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Happy Babe Ruth Day! In celebration of the Babe, go watch The Sandlot.

On today’s agenda:

1. The return of Sean Marshall
2. Danny Hultzen’s injury
3. What to make of Kyle Kendrick
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The NFL draft took place last night, at least according to twitter. While that is all well and good, we are on to more important things than 22 year old football player. Things like 22 year old baseball players.

On today’s agenda:
1. Oswaldo Arcia to get more playing time
2. The return of John Lackey
3. Domonic Brown, heating up?
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Today’s Roto Riteup begins with a baseball programming note: Brian Kenny will be talking at Hawk Harrelson about sabermetrics on MLB Now today. Check your local listings, blackouts and restrictions apply, and blah blah blah.

On today’s agenda:
Michael Saunders on the road to a return
Tsuyoshi Wada on the path to June debut
Robert Andino backs into increased playing time

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In a random debate of sorts, fellow FanGraphs writer and baseball nerd colleague Mark Smith and the present author spoke on a number of things via twitter, culminating in the following question: which is better Backstreet Boys or N’Sync. What say you, reader?

On today’s agenda:
1. Potentially bad news for Dylan Bundy
2. A setback for Matt Garza
3. The Atlanta Braves gain a player, lose a player
4. Andrew Cashner to the rotation
5. Shaun Marcum’s return

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