Daily Notes, Featuring the Big Todd Redmond Debut
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes.
1. Featured Game: Chicago (NL) at Cincinnati, 19:10 ET
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
Featured Game: Chicago (NL) at Cincinnati, 19:10 ET
Regarding This Game, Why It’s Notable
This game is notable on account of it features the major-league debut of Todd Redmond, who starts for the Reds.
Regarding Todd Redmond, Who That Even Is
Todd Redmond is a 27-year-old right-hander drafted originally by Pittsburgh in the 39th round of the 2004 draft out of St. Petersburg College. He was traded to Atlanta in 2008 and then again, about a month ago, to Cincinnati in exchange for Paul Janish.
Regarding Todd Redmond, His Numbers at Triple-A This Season
Here’s Todd Redmond’s Triple-A line at Triple-A this season: 134.2 IP, 8.4 K/9, 2.3 BB/9, 1.1 HR/9, 3.62 FIP.
Regarding Todd Redmond, What He Throws
As best as the author can ascertain from the internet, Todd Redmond throws a fastball at around 90 mph, a curveball, a slider, and a changeup.
Regarding Todd Redmond, What He Throws (Part II)
From a piece by David O’Brien this June:
“We always give him (grief) because he’s got the invisi-ball,” said Kris Medlen, who played with Redmond in Gwinnett this year and Double-A Mississippi in 2008. “He always goes seven or eight innings, but he throws these belt-high to belly button-high 90 mph (fastballs). If I threw them they’d get crushed but it doesn’t. Some things you can’t explain.”
Regarding “Some Things You Can’t Explain,” Other Examples
Here are three other things you can’t explain:
• The works — all of them — of French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
• What is a Lyman-alpha forest.
• The ladies! (Amirite, fellas?!? Yuk, yuk, yuk.)
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast
Per the results of our offseason crowdsourcing project, FanGraphs readers prefer Chicago Radio (link).
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Cleveland at Oakland | 21:05 ET
Through his first three career major-league starts, right-hander Corey Kluber, who pitches tonight for Cleveland, has thrown his fastball at an average of 93.5 mph, a figure that would place him eighth among all qualified starters (tied with Edinson Volquez) by that measurement.
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 4.4.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roy Oswalt | TEX | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | TOR | C. Villanueva | 13:07 |
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | CIN | Johnny Cueto | 13:10 |
| Jon Lester | BOS | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | NYA | David Phelps* | 16:05 |
| Erik Bedard | PIT | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 | STL | Lance Lynn | 16:05 |
| Patrick Corbin | AZ | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | HOU | Jordan Lyles | 19:05 |
| Zach Britton | BAL | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | DET | Rick Porcello | 19:05 |
| Jon Niese | NYN | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | WAS | Edwin Jackson | 19:05 |
| Jake Peavy | CHA | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | KC | Bruce Chen | 19:10 |
| Brooks Raley* | CHN | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | CIN | Todd Redmond* | 19:10 |
| Aaron Harang | LAN | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 | ATL | Ben Sheets | 19:10 |
| Cole Hamels | PHI | 9 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | MIL | Mike Fiers | 19:10 |
| Nathan Eovaldi | MIA | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | COL | Tyler Chatwood* | 20:10 |
| Barry Zito | SF | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | SD | Eric Stults | 20:35 |
| Corey Kluber* | CLE | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | OAK | Bartolo Colon | 21:05 |
| Alex Cobb | TB | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | LAA | C.J. Wilson | 21:05 |
| Scott Diamond | MIN | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | SEA | Jason Vargas | 21:10 |
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.
How big is Todd’s head?
I wish I had know the Yankee/Red Sox game today was of average watchability before I paid above average prices on stubhub for a ticket.
Yes, that’s distressing. I’d say you had some hope, except for that the NERD scores are so clearly infallible.
You have to adjust for area. New England and New York, it’s a 10, or if you work for ESPN/MLB. Everywhere else, not so much.
Intergalactic hydrogen absorbs light at certain discrete frequencies, one of which is called the Lyman alpha frequency–referred to as a “line” because it appears as a dark line amid a spectrum of colors.
At long distances, light becomes redshifted–growing redder and redder the further it travels. Hence, the absorption line tends toward redder and redder with distance, and sources from several distances show a “forest” of lines instead of one.
Looking forward to Redmond’s debut. He never even really got a chance in Atlanta between all the other starters ahead of him.
Regarding the Headline, as Visible from the Home Page
The headline, as visible from the website’s homepage, concludes in this wise: “Featuring the Big Todd Redmond”.
Regarding How This Commenter Interpreted Said Headline
This commenter interpreted said headline as a nickname for the Daily Notes’ writer’s male genitalia.
The Aforementioned Usage, Deployed in an All-American Sentence
“Good day, beauteous Wisconsiner lass; would you like to make acquaintance with my Todd Redmond?”
Potential NotGraphs poll: which current major leaguer’s name would make the most effective euphemism for male genitalia?
Chase Headly
Grady Sizemore?
And sadly, you mentioned male specifically, so I can’t effectively make use of the name Rusty Kuntz. How about Wily Mo Pena for being the most masculine ballplayer of all time?
J.J. Hardy, RA Dickey, Chien-Ming Wang, Reed Johnson, Drew Stubbs
This just makes me sad Randy Johnson isn’t in baseball anymore.
There’s Reed Johnson, but that probably conveys the wrong impression.
I tried to explain Derrida once. It did not go well. There’s like, no outside, man. That’s about as far as I got.
When asked what Derrida (i.e his theories) was, I replied, “What isn’t Derrida?”
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