Daily Notes: Feat. Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to alert the bespectacled readership to how very talented Detroit right-hander Max Scherzer faces very talented New York (Nationals) right-hander Matt Harvey this (Saturday) afternoon at 4:05pm ET in Queens, New York — a rencontre of such significance that one must employ French words to describe it.
A Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of WAR pitching leaderboard — which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:
| Name | Team | IP | WAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Harvey | Mets | 171.2 | 5.9 |
| Adam Wainwright | Cardinals | 198.2 | 5.8 |
| Clayton Kershaw | Dodgers | 198.1 | 5.5 |
| Felix Hernandez | Mariners | 184.2 | 5.5 |
| Max Scherzer | Tigers | 172.1 | 5.3 |
| Anibal Sanchez | Tigers | 139.2 | 4.8 |
| Derek Holland | Rangers | 174.0 | 4.8 |
| Yu Darvish | Rangers | 161.0 | 4.3 |
| Mat Latos | Reds | 169.0 | 4.1 |
| Chris Sale | White Sox | 172.1 | 4.1 |
A Second Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of RA9-WAR leaderboard — which metric is a calculation of WAR using ERA, essentially, as opposed to FIP and which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:
| Name | Team | IP | RA9-WAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Kershaw | Dodgers | 198.1 | 7.9 |
| Patrick Corbin | Diamondbacks | 172.1 | 5.9 |
| Matt Harvey | Mets | 171.2 | 5.8 |
| Felix Hernandez | Mariners | 184.2 | 5.6 |
| Adam Wainwright | Cardinals | 198.2 | 5.5 |
| Yu Darvish | Rangers | 161.0 | 5.5 |
| Max Scherzer | Tigers | 172.1 | 5.3 |
| Hiroki Kuroda | Yankees | 166.1 | 5.3 |
| Derek Holland | Rangers | 174.0 | 4.9 |
| Anibal Sanchez | Tigers | 139.2 | 4.7 |
A Third Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of xFIP- pitching leaderboard for qualified pitchers — which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:
| Name | Team | IP | xFIP- |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felix Hernandez | Mariners | 184.2 | 67 |
| Yu Darvish | Rangers | 161.0 | 67 |
| Matt Harvey | Mets | 171.2 | 69 |
| Adam Wainwright | Cardinals | 198.2 | 71 |
| Anibal Sanchez | Tigers | 139.2 | 74 |
| Chris Sale | White Sox | 172.1 | 74 |
| Max Scherzer | Tigers | 172.1 | 77 |
| A.J. Burnett | Pirates | 145.2 | 77 |
| Clayton Kershaw | Dodgers | 198.1 | 78 |
| Cliff Lee | Phillies | 170.2 | 81 |
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Atlanta at St. Louis | 19:15 ET
Julio Teheran (149.0 IP, 101 xFIP-, 2.0 WAR) faces Shelby Miller (132.2 IP, 89 xFIP-, 2.2 WAR). As noted by Dave Cameron this past week, the pair here are (deserving) candidates for the National’s League rookie-of-the-year award.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: St. Louis 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 5.8.
Note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Lester | BOS | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6 | LAN | Hyun-Jin Ryu | 16:05 |
| Max Scherzer | DET | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 10 | NYN | Matt Harvey | 16:05 |
| Tommy Milone | OAK | 4 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | BAL | Chris Tillman | 16:05 |
| Randall Delgado | AZ | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | PHI | Ethan Martin | 19:05 |
| Liam Hendriks* | MIN | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | CLE | Zach McAllister | 19:05 |
| Jeff Manship* | COL | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 10 | MIA | Jose Fernandez | 19:10 |
| Wily Peralta | MIL | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | CIN | Bronson Arroyo | 19:10 |
| CC Sabathia | NYA | 6 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | TB | David Price | 19:10 |
| Yu Darvish | TEX | 10 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | CHA | Hector Santiago | 19:10 |
| C-M Wang | TOR | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | HOU | Brad Peacock | 19:10 |
| J. Zimmermann | WAS | 8 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | KC | Wade Davis | 19:10 |
| Julio Teheran | ATL | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 9 | STL | Shelby Miller | 19:15 |
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | SD | Eric Stults | 20:40 |
| Francisco Liriano | PIT | 9 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | SF | Tim Lincecum | 21:05 |
| Jason Vargas | LAA | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | SEA | Erasmo Ramirez | 21:10 |
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.
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Is there a pitching WAR which adjusts for park/league
factors? Similar to wRC+ but for pitchers.
ERA-
not really…
WAR does that.
pitching WAR is based on FIP- which is FIP adjusted for run and park environments.
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