Daily Notes: Ft. Corey Kluber, AKA Mr. Appointment Television

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

1. Featured Game: Cleveland at New York AL, 13:05 ET
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Featured Game: Cleveland at New York AL, 13:05 ET
Regarding This Post, Its Purpose
The purpose of this internet post is to alert the public to how right-hander Corey Kluber, a top-10 pitcher in May by strikeout rate and park-adjusted xFIP and SIERA, starts today for Cleveland against the New York Americans.

Regarding This Post, Another of Its Purposes
Another of this post’s urgent objectives is to announce — or, at least, state without ambiguity — that, so far as Corey Kluber is concerned, that it’s also entirely reasonable to address him by his gentleman’s sobriquet, Mr. Appointment Television.

Regarding That Sobriquet, Its Aptness
What makes total sense about referring to Corey Kluber as Mr. Appointment Television is that people are always, quite literally, making appointments to watch his starts. People will be like, “Look, Corey Kluber is starting at 1pm on Wednesday. I should make note of that in my [calendar/agenda of choice].”

Regarding That Claim, The Reader’s Possible Response to It
To the author’s suggestion that everyone is making appointments to watch Corey Kluber, it’s possible that the reader will respond by demanding evidence of some sort. He or she might be like, “Hey, how about some evidence, guy?”

Evidence
Here is the evidence requested of late by the hypothetical reader, from the author’s own personal electronic internet calendar (click to embiggen, naturally):

In Conclusion
In conclusion, here’s slow-motion footage of Corey Kluber from his most recent and rain-shortened start throwing a curveball to Kelly Johnson for a swinging strike and with a scoreboard materializing in front of him:

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

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Pittsburgh at Atlanta | 12:10 ET
Wandy Rodriguez (62.1 IP, 105 xFIP-, 0.3 WAR) faces Julio Teheran (63.0 IP, 103 xFIP-, 0.5 WAR). The latter recorded the best start of his brief career — in terms of defense-independent marks, at least — in his most recent appearance, against Washington this past Friday (box). His line: 6.2 IP, 27 TBF, 9 K, 1 BB, 7 GB on 16 batted-balls, 1.89 xFIP.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Atlanta 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 5.2.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Wandy Rodriguez	PIT	4	6	6	9	6	ATL	Julio Teheran	12:10
Corey Kluber	CLE	10	8	8	5	7	NYA	CC Sabathia	13:05
Jacob Turner*	MIA	6	0	5	3	7	PHI	Cole Hamels	13:05
Bartolo Colon	OAK	6	6	5	4	4	MIL	Yovani Gallardo	14:10
Dylan Axelrod	CHA	2	0	4	5	7	SEA	Hisashi Iwakuma	15:40
R.A. Dickey	TOR	9	6	5	4	1	SF	Barry Zito	15:45
Matt Garza*	CHN	6	5	4	5	2	LAA	Jason Vargas	19:05
Dillon Gee	NYN	5	6	5	2	5	WAS	Dan Haren	19:05
Alex Cobb	TB	8	7	7	7	7	DET	Doug Fister	19:08
Jon Garland	COL	1	8	5	5	8	CIN	Johnny Cueto	19:10
Alexi Ogando	TEX	3	4	5	9	7	BOS	John Lackey	19:10
Freddy Garcia	BAL	3	9	5	3	5	HOU	Dallas Keuchel	20:10
P.J. Walters*	MIN	4	3	4	5	3	KC	Jeremy Guthrie	20:10
Wade Miley	AZ	5	3	5	2	6	STL	Joe Kelly*	20:15
Jason Marquis	SD	0	7	5	3	9	LAN	Clayton Kershaw	22:10

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.