Daily Notes: Danny Salazar Night in America
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. Danny Salazar Night in America
2. Other Notable Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
Danny Salazar Night in America
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to announce that Cleveland right-hander Danny Salazar, of the Santo Domingo Salazars, is starting tonight (Monday) at 8:10pm ET against Minnesota — a game which is available gratis, care of MLB.TV.
Regarding Salazar, Why He’s Notable
One notable quality, with regard to Salazar, is his fastball, which is noted, by means of its power, for breaking the cedars of Lebanon.
Regarding Salazar, Why Else He’s Notable
Another notable quality apropos Salazar is his split-change, which is known, on account of its majesty, to make the deer give birth and strips the forests bare.
Regarding Salazar, A Third Reason He’s Notable
So far as Danny Salazar is concerned, a third reason he’s notable is for his slider, which is average or slightly above average.
Action Footage:
Here’s video footage of — courtesy both SportsTime Ohio and Jeff Sullivan, from a recent post written by the latter — of Salazar throwing a fastball at 100 mph fastball by Miguel Cabrera for a strikeout:
Other Notable Game
Detroit at Chicago AL | 20:10 ET
Doug Fister (149.0 IP, 83 xFIP-, 3.2 WAR) faces Chris Sale (149.1 IP, 73 xFIP-, 4.0 WAR) in a game which, as the seal below suggests, guarantees satisfaction.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Detroit Radio.
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 6.0.
Note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Straily | OAK | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | TOR | J.A. Happ | 12:37 |
| Yu Darvish | TEX | 10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | HOU | B. Oberholtzer* | 14:10 |
| Garrett Richards | LAA | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 5 | NYA | Hiroki Kuroda | 19:05 |
| Cole Hamels | PHI | 7 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | ATL | Julio Teheran | 19:10 |
| Mat Latos | CIN | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | CHN | Travis Wood | 20:05 |
| Danny Salazar* | CLE | 11 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | MIN | Andrew Albers* | 20:10 |
| Doug Fister | DET | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 10 | CHA | Chris Sale | 20:10 |
| Tom Koehler | MIA | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | KC | Wade Davis | 20:10 |
| Edinson Volquez | SD | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | COL | Jhoulys Chacin | 20:40 |
| Scott Feldman | BAL | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 6 | AZ | Wade Miley | 21:40 |
| Jenrry Mejia* | NYN | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | LAN | Ricky Nolasco | 22:10 |
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.
The index finger on the satisfaction-seal hand is freaking me out a little bit
Was just thinking the same thing. Was he in a motor boating accident?
Must be a different motor-boating technique than I’m familiar with…Nonetheless, the finger is disturbing.
The hand on the seal is an accurate representation of the hand of Bob Wickman.
Or perhaps, Mordecai Brown?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mordecai_Brown_3_fingers.JPG/350px-Mordecai_Brown_3_fingers.JPG
I believe it was a boaking accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmdiiqIRA8
It’s actually just a partial view of the hand of Armando Alfonseca.
http://www.bobanddan.com/images/Bob/Alfonseca.jpg
Pardon, *Antonio Alfonseca
Your Grecian followers are now offended.
Danny Salazar goes to 11.
Andrew Albers politely requested that I let you know that it is actually Andrew Alber’s Night in America. Danny Salazar is his opening act.
Andrew Albers is going to be bringin’ the flames at 86.7 MPH
Andrew Albers politely requested that I let you know that it is actually Andrew Alber’s Night in America. Danny Salazar is his opening act.
That index finger has got T-Dubya T-Dubya….just cuz you can’t see it doesn’t mean it ain’t there….
Biggest question for me with Salazar is what is his third pitch. The split-change and slider just kind of blend together…
The slider has a bit more of a uniform rolling-type break to it, I think. But, yes — especially on the off-center cameras — they’re difficult to distinguish, absolutely.
This is nice, but it just doesn’t feel the same. Nothing can really fill the Kluber void.
As an Indians fan, I’m enjoying the Danny Salazar experience so far. I can’t remember a power pitcher coming up through their system like this since Bartolo Colon. Good times.
It pleases me to see Cleveland with promising young and revitalized old talent. Good luck, guys.
Both buck and doe?
There should be a warning that satisfaction is not guaranteed if Hawk is involved.
If Danny breaks the “cedars of Lebanon”, he is the Sea Peoples, eradicatingill-fated Ugarit (Byblos’ main rival in the cedars of Lebanon trade), ending the Bronze Age, conquering Mycenaeans and Hittites, and exterminating writing from the Greek world for 300 years (can you imagine 3 centuries of no Daily Notes?). Terrifying indeed.
Or perhaps, Danny is Zakar-Baal torturing the poor priest Wenamum, who just wants some damn Cedar for his barge.
I told you guys it was my night, not Denny Saladbar night.