Like yesterday, I had an idea for a top pitcher and another player (in this case two) and wanted to see if I could build a lineup around them. I tried, but couldn't get it under budget given the cheapest starting second baseman was $2700. So I punted the position entirely -  as in using a guy not in the starting lineup. That might be insane, but that's why this is "DFS Amateur Hour" and not "Learn DFS from the Pros."

My idea was to use Greinke at home against the Phillies and both right-handed Rockies sluggers (Nolan Arenado and Troy Tulowitzki) at home against lefty Alex Wood. I was still able to stack three right-handed Indians (Carlos Santana, Ryan Raburn and Yan Gomes) who hit 4-5-6 in the order and face lefty Brett Oberholtzer. I rounded things out with Anthony Gose against right-handed Mike Pelfrey and Jake Marisnick facing Cody Anderson. But no matter how much I shuffled my OF around, there was no way to keep Greinke, the two Rockies and the Indians stack with a $2700 second baseman like Johnny Giavotella (vs. Felix Hernandez) or a $2900 Brandon Phillips (vs. Jose Fernandez.) So I went with an intentional zero in Descalso who I chose for the venue in the event he gets a chance to pinch hit.

Maybe that's an idiotic thing to do, but I've cashed before with zeroes, negative scores or fewer than one point from a couple spots in my lineup, and once I filled it out, it was worth $5 to me to run the experiment.