Daily Notes: Featuring the League Leader in Pitcher WAR

Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.

1. Featured Game: Detroit at Washington, 19:05 ET
2. Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Featured Game: Detroit at Washington, 19:05 ET
Regarding This Game, Who’s Starting It for Detroit
Starting this game for Detroit is the league leader in pitcher WAR as of Monday, right-hander Anibal Sanchez.

Regarding This Game, Who’s Not Starting It
Not starting this game for Detroit is other league leader in pitcher WAR as of Monday, different right-hander Justin Verlander.

Regarding Those WAR Figures, A Question the Reader Might Have
A question the reader might have with regard to how only Monday (and not Tuesday) WAR figures are cited above is, “Why is that the case?”

Regarding the Reader’s Question, An Answer to It
The answer to the reader’s question in re Monday, as opposed to Tuesday, WAR figures being cited is this: “Because the author writes the majority of these Notes on the night before the morning after.”

Regarding the Author, Why He Does That
Because he worships at the altar of Leisure, is why, and dedicates the largest part of his morning to Unfettered Repose.

Regarding the Reader, What He or She Is Invited to Do
The reader is invited to remove all the fetters from his or her repose, as well — provided circumstances allow. Or, if not all the fetters, maybe just like a half or quarter of them — provided circumstances continue to allow.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast
Per the results of our crowdsourcing project from the 2011-2012 offseason, FanGraphs readers prefer Washington Radio (link).

Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
Kansas City at Baltimore | 19:05 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Ervin Santana starts for the Royals. On account of his most recent start was postponed after four innings, all of the author’s comments regarding him (i.e. Santana) from last Thursday remain entirely relevant.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Baltimore Radio.

Chicago AL at New York NL | 19:10 ET
Apart from the fact that this game features Matt Harvey‘s menacing fastball and menacing slider and menacing changeup, it also gives home audiences the opportunity to view Hector Santiago’s screwball on what is very likely the best slow-motion replay camera (SportsNet New York’s) in baseball.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: New York NL Television.

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 5.2.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Anibal Sanchez	DET	10	7	8	3	7	WAS	Jor. Zimmermann	19:05
Ervin Santana	KC	8	6	5	7	1	BAL	Wei-Yin Chen	19:05
Tommy Milone	OAK	7	7	6	10	4	CLE	Zach McAllister	19:05
Aaron Harang*	SEA	4	4	3	8	0	PIT	James McDonald	19:05
Kris Medlen	ATL	4	8	6	3	9	CIN	Homer Bailey	19:10
Hector Santiago*	CHA	6	1	7	8	10	NYN	Matt Harvey	19:10
Scott Diamond	MIN	5	3	6	9	7	BOS	Ryan Dempster	19:10
J.A. Happ	TOR	0	4	4	7	7	TB	Rob. Hernandez	19:10
Lance Lynn	STL	6	2	5	5	4	CHN	Travis Wood	20:05
C.J. Wilson	LAA	2	3	4	5	6	HOU	Jordan Lyles*	20:10
Justin Grimm	TEX	6	4	6	7	6	MIL	Wily Peralta	20:10
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	5	6	5	7	3	COL	Jorge de la Rosa	20:40
Brandon McCarthy	AZ	6	5	5	2	6	LAN	Josh Beckett	22:10
Alex Sanabia	MIA	2	0	3	4	4	SD	Eric Stults	22:10
Kyle Kendrick	PHI	4	1	5	5	6	SF	Tim Lincecum	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.