Daily Notes: Although More Like Daily Note, In This Case
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. The Daily Note, More Like
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
The Daily Note, More Like
Owing to the conspiracy of certain Life Events against him, the author is unable to provide in this space today the sort of robust analysis and unfettered prose for which he’s become nearly famous on no fewer than one (1) continents.
As compensation of sorts, however, he (i.e. that same author) has produced the following animated GIF of Atlanta right-hander Kris Medlen‘s changeup from Tuesday night’s Braves-Mets game — which pitch actually features a higher swinging-strike rate this season (27.3%) than last (26.0%), when it was responsible for preventing more runs than all but Fernando Rodney‘s and Jason Vargas’s versions of the same offering.
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Minnesota at Los Angeles AL | 15:35 ET
Mike Pelfrey (88.1 IP, 118 xFIP-, 1.0 WAR) faces Jered Weaver (73.2 IP, 107 xFIP-, 1.3 WAR).
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Minnesota Radio, Perhaps.
Today’s Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.1.
Note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.J. Griffin | OAK | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | HOU | Bud Norris | 14:10 |
| Mike Pelfrey | MIN | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | LAA | Jered Weaver | 15:35 |
| Scott Kazmir | CLE | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | SEA | Joe Saunders | 15:40 |
| Francisco Liriano | PIT | 9 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 10 | WAS | S. Strasburg | 19:05 |
| Ricky Nolasco | LAN | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | TOR | Esmil Rogers | 19:07 |
| Tim Hudson | ATL | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | NYN | Jeremy Hefner | 19:10 |
| David Price | TB | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | BOS | Felix Doubront | 19:10 |
| Andy Pettitte | NYA | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | TEX | Matt Garza | 20:05 |
| Wei-Yin Chen | BAL | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | KC | Ervin Santana | 20:10 |
| Anibal Sanchez | DET | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 7 | CHA | John Danks | 20:10 |
| Sean O’Sullivan* | SD | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | MIL | Kyle Lohse | 20:10 |
| John Lannan | PHI | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | STL | Jake Westbrook | 20:15 |
| Jacob Turner | MIA | 6 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | COL | Jorge de la Rosa | 20:40 |
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | AZ | Ian Kennedy | 21:40 |
| Mike Leake | CIN | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | SF | Chad Gaudin | 22:15 |
To learn how Pitcher and Team NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Fooling Ike Davis is not an accomplishment.
Dammit, beat me to it! Not hard to make that guy look bad. That hitch in Davis’s swing is ridiculous.