Daily Notes, Ft. a Summary of Jeurys Familia’s Debut

October 2, 2012

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

1. Brief Summary: Jeurys Familia’s First MLB Start
2. Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Brief Summary: Jeurys Familia’s First MLB Start
What Happened Last Night
Last night, Mets right-hander and noted prospect Jeurys Familia made his first major-league start (after seven relief appearances) — and did so in front of the excellent and straight-on Marlins center-field camera.

Familia’s Line
Here was Familia’s line from the same start (box): 4.0 IP, 17 TBF, 3 K, 6 BB, 3 GB on 8 batted-balls (37.5% GB), 7.94 xFIP.

Jeurys Familia’s Best Fastball
This is what Jeurys Familia’s best fastball looks like (to Carlos Lee in the second):

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Jeurys Familia’s Best Slider
This is what Jeurys Familia’s best slider looks like (to Giancarlo Stanton in the third):

Jeurys Familia’s Other Pitches
Unfortunately, this is what most of Jeurys Familia’s other pitches looked like on Monday:

Today’s Notable Games
New York NL at Miami | 19:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
America’s most tender lover R.A. Dickey (222.2 IP, 84 xFIP-, 4.7 WAR) makes his final start of the season.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: New York Television (although, it might not feature Miami’s straight-on center-fielder camera).

Texas at Oakland | 22:05 ET
In Woody Allen’s 1975 comedy Love and Death, the Russian general gathers his soldiers and delivers a speech very much like this: “Men… Next week, we leave for the front. The object will be to kill as many Frenchmen as possible. Naturally, they are going to try and kill as many Russians as possible. If we kill more Frenchmen, we win. If they kill more Russians, they win.” I don’t think I need to tell you, reader, how relevant those words are to this game.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Texas 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 3.1.

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
Tommy Hanson	ATL	4	6	2	4	3	PIT	Kevin Correia	19:05
Jon Lester	BOS	7	4	4	7	5	NYA	David Phelps	19:05
Jake Peavy	CHA	5	4	2	2	5	CLE	Justin Masterson	19:05
Undecided	PHI	5	6	4	7	8	WAS	Gio Gonzalez	19:05
Anthony Swarzak*	MIN	4	4	2	4	5	TOR	Chad Jenkins*	19:07
Miguel Gonzalez	BAL	3	3	3	7	8	TB	James Shields	19:10
R.A. Dickey	NYN	10	2	5	4	6	MIA	Jacob Turner	19:10
Bud Norris	HOU	6	4	2	2	2	CHN	Chris Volstad	20:05
Doug Fister	DET	7	4	3	6	2	KC	Jeremy Guthrie	20:10
Anthony Bass	SD	6	7	5	9	7	MIL	Tyler Thornburg*	20:10
Mat Latos	CIN	8	4	5	9	7	STL	Chris Carpenter*	20:15
Jhoulys Chacin	COL	1	6	3	7	8	AZ	Patrick Corbin	21:40
Matt Harrison	TEX	5	6	3	7	4	OAK	Travis Blackley	22:05
Dan Haren	LAA	5	7	3	3	6	SEA	Hisashi Iwakuma	22:10
Barry Zito	SF	1	4	1	1	6	LAN	Chris Capuano	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.

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Marty

13 years ago

Yeah that’s a terrible line, but that 96 mph fastball looks like it has an obscene amount of downward movement and arm-side run. That looks like it could be a simply ridiculous pitch.

Carson CistulliMember

Reply to Marty

I know. I kept being like, “Oh, just throw that pitch again, Familia — or, like, throw it every time.”

And Jeurys Familia, he entirely ignores me.

Well-Beered Englishman

Reply to Carson Cistulli

Seriously, he should throw it every time. Ross Detwiler is getting by throwing 75% fastballs (I think), but the Familia pitch – I thought “good god, that’s a fastball!? Or is it a 96mph curve?”

J.P. Widely

Here is an American general watching Familia pitch.