Daily Notes, Featuring a Daniel Straily Debut Event
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes.
1. The Briefest of Announcements
2. Featured Game: Toronto at Oakland, 22:05 ET ET
3. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
4. Today’s Complete Schedule
The Briefest of Announcements
The author will be attending the wedding of a good friend in Cambridge this weekend and then eating delicious seafood in Cape Cod after that. The mostly able Patrick Dubuque and Robert J. Baumann, both of NotGraphs, will cover the Notes on Saturday and Sunday (Dubuque) and then Tuesday and Wednesday (Baumann). Please treat them just as poorly as you would treat me.
Featured Game: Toronto at Oakland, 22:05 ET
Regarding This Game, What’s Notable About It
What’s notable about this game is how 23-year-old right-hander Daniel Straily is making his debut in it for Oakland.
Regarding Daniel Straily, Who That Is
Daniel Straily is a pitcher who posted a line very similar to this one at Double-A Midland this year: 85.1 IP, 11.39 K/9, 2.43 BB/9, 0.63 HR/9, 2.57 FIP. And a line almost precisely like this one at Triple-A Sacramento (also this year): 53.0 IP, 11.38 K/9, 2.38 BB/9, 0.51 HR/9, 2.20 FIP.
A Thing the Reader Might Enjoy About Daniel Straily
One thing the reader might enjoy about Daniel Straily is that, while he’s not particularly big (he’s listed at 6-foot-2), his heart is actually 10-feet tall.
A Thing About Daniel Straily That Might Concern the Reader
A thing about Daniel Straily that might concern the reader is how Straily’s heart is about four feet taller than he (i.e. Straily) is.
Some Questions the Reader Might Be Asking
The reader might be asking now something like, “What happens to that other four feet of heart that Straily’s got? Like, where does he keep it? Can you see it through his jersey or something when he’s pitching? Is he in danger just of dy-ying at any moment?”
A Response to the Reader
A logical response to the reader is that Straily’s unusual medical condition represents at least one reason to watch this game.
An Actually Helpful Thing Regarding Straily’s Repertoire
Straily recently spoke, and gave a very thorough description of his repertoire, to MLB.com Andrew Pentis. Click this hyperlinked text to read that piece.
An Actually Amusing Comment, Courtesy Daniel Straily
From the Twitter feed of MLB.com’s Jane Lee:
Straily: “I never got into the whole prospect thing because I never was one.”
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) August 2, 2012
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast
Per the results of our offseason crowdsourcing project, FanGraphs readers prefer Toronto Radio (link).
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Cleveland at Detroit | 19:05 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Anibal Sanchez (127.0 IP, 92 xFIP-, 2.2 WAR) makes his second start at a Tiger. How will he ultimately compare to other pitchers who were traded at the deadline? That’s an actual question you can answer by referencing our custom leaderboard of recently traded players.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Cleveland 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 4.7.
Note: the following Game Scores include the poorly conceived playoff-odds adjustment discussed in a recent edition of Daily Notes. Also note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Hand* | MIA | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | WAS | John Lannan* | 16:05 |
| Josh Johnson | MIA | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | WAS | Gio Gonzalez | TBD |
| Ian Kennedy | AZ | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | PHI | Joe Blanton | 19:05 |
| Justin Masterson | CLE | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | DET | Anibal Sanchez | 19:05 |
| Kevin Millwood | SEA | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | NYA | CC Sabathia | 19:05 |
| Tommy Hunter | BAL | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | TB | Matt Moore | 19:10 |
| Brian Duensing* | MIN | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | BOS | Felix Doubront | 19:10 |
| Wandy Rodriguez | PIT | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | CIN | Mat Latos | 19:10 |
| Arman. Galarraga* | HOU | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | ATL | Tim Hudson | 19:35 |
| Zack Greinke | LAA | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | CHA | Philip Humber | 20:10 |
| Matt Harrison | TEX | 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | KC | Jeremy Guthrie | 20:10 |
| Randy Wolf | MIL | 3 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 5 | STL | Joe Kelly | 20:15 |
| Ryan Vogelsong | SF | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | COL | Jonathan Sanchez | 20:40 |
| R.A. Dickey | NYN | 10 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | SD | Clayton Richard | 22:05 |
| Brett Cecil | TOR | 4 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 17 | OAK | Daniel Straily | 22:05 |
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 10 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | LAN | Chad Billingsley | 22:10 |
To learn more about Pitcher and Team NERD scores 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.
Actually, the Custom Leaderboard of Recently Traded Players will in no way help you to figure out how he (Sanchez) will ultimately compare to other pitchers who were traded at the deadline unless you are interested in his hitting skills. Which I assume you are not. If you inexplicably are, then you may be interested to know that he (still Sanchez)is a better hitter than (no relation, I think) Gaby Sanchez.
Even this information will be difficult to discern as he (still Sanchez (Anibel not Gaby)) is not on that particular list.
If you click on the Pitching tab up top, that should have numbers for pitchers.
Like here: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2012&month=0&season1=2012&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=4300,9018,4363,4759,517,4146,7882,6086,3970,8252,1095,2170,3361,6201,1677,3731,3711,11827,2830,4241,1702,8678,5498,3707,1191,3201,6153,4578,1555,3298,1943,5933,8001,813,9132,5653,2586.
That works. Thanks. I apologize for ever doubting you.
Does Dayn Perry crash weddings? I feel like Dayn Perry crashes weddings.
Have to think that there should be some recognition of this weekend’s Pittsburgh-Cincinnati series, since these two franchises who dominated the NL in the 1970s are playing their first really meaningful head-to-head series since, oh, when Vanilla Ice was on top of the music world.
“Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! GO GO GO GO!”
Giants offense vs Jonathan Sanchez. A quite stoppable force meets and quite movable object.
And what about the Monday notes? Idol-style commentariat audition?
Monday the entire staff of NotGraphs will be delivering the notes in the improvisational style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” I’ll be taking on the role of Colin Macharie.
And of course, I misspelled Colin Mochrie’s name so poorly that Google didn’t even bother to correct me.
Ryan Stiles: Dayn Perry
Wayne Brady: Summer Anne Burton
Brad Sherwood: Brad Woodrum
Drew Carey: Dave Cameron
If I’m not Wayne Brady, you’re all going down.
Monday is a civic holiday in Canada. So Fangraphs is taking the day off, natch.
What’s “Canada”?
Oh goodness Brazen Reader, your link.
Do we really treat you poorly, Cistulli?
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I’ve always proceeded with nothing but gratitude and affection for the excellent service you provide, a service not to my knowledge available anywhere else on the entire internets, not even for ready money.
So call it tough love, if you must. Because a) it is tough but b) it is a species of love nonetheless. Please harbor no doubt. And if upon your return your skills have atrophied, let our collective remonstrance serve as a mark of the esteem in which you are held.
I’m already missing you in advance. Mind the atrophy.
He’ll be fine as long as he continues to get his daily motivation from thecommonman.
You made Straily a 17?!
I love you so much right now.
Dojers dropped Bobby Abreu and added Shane Victorino, and a dissapointed NERD dropped them from One to Zero. Stated differently, the team of Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp, Hanley Ramirez, Kenley Jensen, Ronald Belisario, Juans Rivera and Uribe, Adam Kennedy, James Loney and Vin Scully is poorer viewing than every single team in Major League Baseball.
I rather watch Hee Haw than the Dodgers, but that zero seems peevish, like Ned Colletti slapped Dear Author thrice.
Min. 60 IP:
Johnathon Sanchez is 149th out of 149 in ERA
Ryan Vogelsong is 3rd
Why has no one +1’d this on Google+ yet?
I was about to until struck by micturition syncope.
Another stupid article by a stupid fart-face.
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