Daily Notes: Most Basic Possible Guide to the Draft

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

1. Most Basic Possible Guide to the Draft
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Most Basic Possible Guide to the Draft
Introduction
Baseball’s amateur draft begins today and extends through Saturday. Below is a collection of the most basic possible information — like, totally elementary — concerning it.

Schedule
Only the first two rounds of the draft will be conducted on Thursday. Rounds 3-10 will continue on Friday, with the remaining 30 rounds taking place on Saturday.

Here’s some of that same information, except also with start times and in the form of a table:

Day	Rounds	Start (ET)
Thursday	01-02	19:00
Friday	03-10	12:30
Saturday	11-40	13:00

Broadcast Information
According to MLB.com, both that site (via video stream) and MLB Network will broadcast the first day of the draft. The second and third days (i.e. Friday and Saturday) will be available via MLB.com only, it seems. As of press time, no link to the MLB.com feed is available, although one assumes that pointing one’s browser to MLB.com around 7pm ET tonight, for example, would be some kind of start.

Draft Order
Here, very much courtesy Baseball America, is a table featuring the first-round draft order, with each pick’s assigned value per the terms of the current CBA:

Pick	Team	Value
1	Astros	$7,790,400
2	Cubs	$6,708,400
3	Rockies	$5,626,400
4	Twins	$4,544,400
5	Indians	$3,787,000
6	Marlins	$3,516,500
7	Red Sox	$3,246,000
8	Royals	$3,137,800
9	Pirates (for failure to sign Mark Appel)	$3,029,600
10	Blue Jays	$2,921,400
11	Mets	$2,840,300
12	Mariners	$2,759,100
13	Padres	$2,678,000
14	Pirates	$2,569,800
15	Diamondbacks	$2,434,500
16	Phillies	$2,299,300
17	White Sox	$2,164,000
18	Dodgers	$2,109,900
19	Cardinals	$2,055,800
20	Tigers	$2,001,700
21	Rays	$1,974,700
22	Orioles	$1,947,600
23	Rangers	$1,920,600
24	Athletics	$1,893,500
25	Giants	$1,866,500
26	Yankees	$1,839,400
27	Reds	$1,812,400
28	Cardinals (for loss of free agent Kyle Lohse)	$1,785,300
29	Rays (for loss of free agent B.J. Upton)	$1,758,300
30	Rangers (for loss of free agent Josh Hamilton)	$1,731,200
31	Braves (for loss of free agent Michael Bourn)	$1,704,200
32	Yankees (for loss of free agent Nick Swisher)	$1,677,100
33	Yankees (for loss of free agent Rafael Soriano)	$1,650,100

Various Mock Drafts
Here are links to various and notable mock drafts, with each mock draft’s first pick noted:

Baseball America: Jonathan Gray, RHP, Univ. of Oklahoma
Bullpen Banter*: Jonathan Gray, RHP, Univ. of Oklahoma
Keith Law: Colin Moran, 3B, Univ. of North Carolina
Kiley McDaniel: Mark Appel, RHP, Stanford
John Sickels: Mark Appel, RHP, Stanford

*Note: not a mock draft proper, but rather a collection of top-50 draft prospects.

A Rumor
Rumors abound — or, at least one rumor is presently abounding — that FanGraphs’ own Al Skorupa will assist in real-time coverage of the draft later today.

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Tampa Bay at Detroit | 13:08 ET
Roberto Hernandez (57.1 IP, 87 xFIP-, 0.2 WAR) faces Max Scherzer (76.1 IP, 69 xFIP-, 2.6 WAR). The latter is second only to Yu Darvish in terms of strikeout rate this season.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Detroit or Tampa Bay 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 5.1.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Rob. Hernandez	TB	6	7	8	7	10	DET	Max Scherzer	13:08
Mig. Gonzalez	BAL	3	9	3	3	2	HOU	Bud Norris	14:10
Shaun Marcum	NYN	5	6	5	2	6	WAS	Gio Gonzalez	19:05
Derek Holland	TEX	10	4	7	9	5	BOS	Jon Lester	19:10
Ian Kennedy	AZ	3	3	5	2	9	STL	Shelby Miller	19:15
Mike Pelfrey	MIN	0	3	3	5	5	KC	Wade Davis	20:10
Dan Straily	OAK	7	6	5	0	4	CHA	Jose Quintana	20:10
Tyler Cloyd	PHI	2	3	4	4	6	MIL	Wily Peralta	20:10
And. Cashner	SD	6	7	6	8	4	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	20:40
Tim Hudson	ATL	6	9	5	3	3	LAN	Zack Greinke	22:10
Phil Hughes	NYA	6	5	5	5	5	SEA	Aaron Harang	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.