Daily Notes, Including Actual News on Bard and Bauer
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes.
1. Actual News: Daniel Bard and Trevor Bauer at Triple-A
2. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
Actual News: Daniel Bard and Trevor Bauer at Triple-A
Regarding Trevor Bauer
Right-handed Arizona pitching prospect Trevor Bauer made his fifth start for Triple-A Reno on Friday following his mid-May promotion to same. Here’s his line from that start: 7.0 IP, 27 TBF, 11 K, 2 BB, 0 HR. And now here’s his line at Triple-A: 32.0 IP, 11.8 K/9, 3.9 BB/9, 0.3 HR/9.
What That Is in Terms of FIP
That brings Bauer’s Triple-A FIP to about 2.30. The PCL league average, according to Minor League Central, is 4.13.
Regarding Daniel Bard
Bard made his debut for Triple-A Pawtucket on Friday after his recent demotion to same. His line (against Pittsburgh affiliate Indianapolis): 1.0 IP, 7 TBF, 2 K, 0 BB, 2 HBP.
When He’ll Next Pitch
Bard will next pitch for Pawtucket on Monday — likely two or three innings, according to Paul Kenyon of the Providence Journal.
Video from That Same Pawtucket Game
Here’s video from that same Pawtucket game in which Bard pitched.
First, of the real, live Mark Prior striking out Indy catcher Tony Sanchez on a curveball:
And also of the still real and still live Mark Prior striking out the next batter, Anderson Hernandez, also on a curveball:
Prior’s Line at Pawtucket, Currently
Here’s Mark Prior’s line with Pawtucket that you were wondering about: 4.2 IP, 19 TBF, 10 K, 2 BB, 0 HR.
Today’s Notable Games
Washington at Boston | 16:05 ET
Returning from Tommy John surgery, Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka makes his first major-league appearance since last May. His line in six rehab starts at Triple-A Pawtucket: 28.1 IP, 6.35 K/9, 2.22 BB/9, 1.59 HR/9, 5.14 FIP.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Boston Radio.
Detroit at Cincinnati | 16:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Justin Verlander, who has the second-best WAR among all pitchers, faces Joey Votto, who actually has the highest WAR among all batters.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Detroit Radio.
San Diego at Milwaukee | 16:10 ET
Very hard-throwing right-hander Andrew Cashner begins his transition to the starting rotation tonight — although, is only expected to throw three innings.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Milwaukee 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 5.5.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 10 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | MIN | Scott Diamond | 14:10 |
| Vance Worley | PHI | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | BAL | Tommy Hunter | 16:05 |
| Scott Feldman* | TEX | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | SF | Ryan Vogelsong | 16:05 |
| Drew Hutchison | TOR | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | ATL | Tommy Hanson | 16:05 |
| Gio Gonzalez | WAS | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | BOS | D. Matsuzaka* | 16:05 |
| Dan Haren | LAA | 6 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | COL | Jeff Francis* | 16:10 |
| Justin Verlander | DET | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | CIN | Bronson Arroyo | 16:10 |
| Jordan Lyles | HOU | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | CHA | Chris Sale | 16:10 |
| Andrew Cashner* | SD | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | MIL | Michael Fiers* | 16:10 |
| Justin Masterson | CLE | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | STL | Kyle Lohse | 19:15 |
| Vin Mazzaro* | KC | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | PIT | James McDonald | 19:15 |
| Clayton Kershaw | LAN | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | SEA | Jason Vargas | 19:15 |
| Dillon Gee | NYN | 9 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | NYA | Phil Hughes | 19:15 |
| Matt Moore | TB | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | MIA | Carlos Zambrano | 19:15 |
| Jarrod Parker | OAK | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | AZ | Trevor Cahill | 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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Do you think Prior will start game 1 of the playoffs, or will they wait to pitch him at home in game 3?
Any word on what Prior’s velocity looks like in Pawtucket?
Looks like he’s sitting at about 91 mph now, peaking at 93.
Link http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/pawsox/content/pawsox-prior-comeback-060712_06-07-12_6VVNDM9_v2.2073841.html.
In that article it says he used to throw 97, but according to the info available here he averaged between 92-93 mph. If he used to throw 92-93 and is throwing 91 now, that’s a lot different than if he used to throw 97 and is throwing 91 now. Do you know what the case really is?
Now he’s coming out of the ‘pen so increased av velo is less of a difference than max velo. He used to sit low-mid 90’s and touch upper 90’s. Now he’s more 90-93 out of the pen.
I bet they were citing 97 as his max velocity
This post seems to have a lot of focus on unreliable Red Sox pitchers.
Not a word, not an article, about the Mariners no hitter? Really?
I would love to see an article about Dexter Fowler and what kind of player we should expect him to be going forward. Did anyone else realize he has a .925 OPS?
http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/can-dexter-fowler-really-keep-this-up/