Daily Notes: Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society, Again

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

1. Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society, Again
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society, Again
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to announce another meeting — in this case, at 1:05pm ET today (Sunday) — of the Corey Kluber Society.

About the Corey Kluber Society
The Corey Kluber Society (CKS) — founded either last week or at the dawn of the Holocene epoch, depending — is composed of individuals all bound by their singular fascination with Cleveland right-hander Corey Kluber. The Society’s constitution, were it ever written, would very likely note that said individuals are dedicated to promoting awareness of Kluber’s talents despite what fascist metrics like “win-loss record” and “ERA” might otherwise suggest.

Minutes from Most Recent Meeting
Minutes from the most recent meeting of the Society — which include discussion of Kluber’s very able June 11th start, for example, and also that asshole Steve who always shows up late — are available here.

Corey Kluber Awareness
With regard to Corey Kluber, both members and non-members would do well to note that — as of Saturday night, at least — Kluber was fourth among 111 qualified pitchers by park-adjusted xFIP and third by strikeout rate over the course of the last month.

Announcement
Before we begin, it should be noted that there’s an Oldsmobile in the parking lot with its lights on. Appears to be an burgundy Oldsmobile of some sort. Probably a 2001 or -02 or -03 Aurora. Definitely a burgundy Aurora of some sort.

Inspirational Text: Corey Kluber’s Curveball
Here’s slow-motion and inspirational footage of Kluber’s curveball from his most recent start against Texas:

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Milwaukee at Cincinnati | 13:10 ET
Wily Peralta (74.2 IP, 111 xFIP-, 0.2 WAR) faces Johnny Cueto (37.1 IP, 82 xFIP, 0.7 WAR). The latter is making his first start in over two weeks due to either a lat or shoulder injury. As in previous seasons, his WAR as calculated with runs allowed (1.4) is considerably higher than his WAR as calculated with FIP (0.7).

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 5.6.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
St. Strasburg	WAS	10	1	9	7	10	CLE	Corey Kluber	13:05
Matt Garza	CHN	5	5	4	6	3	NYN	Jeremy Hefner	13:10
Wily Peralta	MIL	6	4	7	4	9	CIN	Johnny Cueto	13:10
Tyler Lyons	STL	7	3	5	0	4	MIA	Ricky Nolasco	13:01
Jon Lester	BOS	4	9	5	8	4	BAL	Miguel Gonzalez	13:35
Zack Greinke	LAN	3	3	6	6	9	PIT	Gerrit Cole*	13:35
Wade Davis	KC	5	4	6	9	7	TB	Rob. Hernandez	13:40
Hector Santiago	CHA	5	1	4	3	5	HOU	Dallas Keuchel	14:10
Doug Fister	DET	7	7	5	3	4	MIN	P.J. Walters	14:10
C-M Wang*	TOR	5	5	6	3	9	TEX	Derek Holland	15:05
CC Sabathia	NYA	7	4	5	6	2	LAA	Jered Weaver	15:35
Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA	8	4	6	7	5	OAK	Bartolo Colon	16:05
Ian Kennedy	AZ	3	3	3	8	2	SD	Clayton Richard	16:10
Cole Hamels	PHI	8	2	6	10	4	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	16:10
Tim Lincecum	SF	6	6	7	8	7	ATL	Julio Teheran	20:05

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.