Daily Notes: Although More Like Daily Note, In This Case

July 24, 2013

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).

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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.