Daily Notes: Much-Awaited Return of the Corey Kluber Society

September 7, 2013

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

1. Much-Awaited Return of the Corey Kluber Society
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Much-Awaited Return of the Corey Kluber Society
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to announce a meeting — in this case, at 6:05pm ET today (Saturday) — of the Corey Kluber Society.

About the Society
The Corey Kluber Society (or, frequently just “the Society”) is composed of individuals all bound by their singular enthusiasm for the works and days of very effective and frequently transcendent Cleveland right-hander Corey Kluber.

How to Attend a Meeting
To attend a meeting of the Society, one needs merely — ahead of any of Kluber’s starts — one needs merely to festoon one’s life with bunting, metaphorically.

Regarding Corey Kluber’s Absence of Late, A Misconception
A misconception has arisen among the people, it appears, that Corey Kluber’s absence for almost the entirety of August was due to some manner of finger injury. This wasn’t the case, at all, of course. In point of fact, Kluber, like anyone else with sophisticated and European tastes, was taking his holiday for the month at seaside resort on the Mediterranean coast. To state that, like those same sophisticated Europeans, he has referred — in multiple interviews and private conversations — has referred to his start today as a “Rentrée of sorts” would be to state the obvious.

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Regarding Corey Kluber, One Other Misconception
That his name comes from the Nahuatl language and means “feathered serpent.”

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Washington at Miami | 19:10 ET
Tanner Roark (22.2 IP, 82 xFIP-, 0.5 WAR) faces Nathan Eovaldi (84.2 IP, 111 xFIP-, 1.3 WAR). This game marks the former’s first start in the major leagues.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Washington 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.

Note that these NERD scores are calculated using the methodology introduced recently and designed to account for the influence of playoff odds on the watchability of games. ***Unlike in recent iterations of this table, the author has adjusted the day’s NERD Game Scores such that, combined, they average 5.0.*** This allows said table to resemble more closely the Game Scores that have appeared here over the preceding four months.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
John Lackey	BOS	7	0	4	2	3	NYA	David Huff*	13:05
Hector Santiago	CHA	3	0	3	2	3	BAL	Wei-Yin Chen	13:05
Zack Greinke	LAN	6	0	5	2	8	CIN	Mat Latos	13:05
Brett Oberholtzer	HOU	4	0	6	6	4	OAK	Dan Straily	16:05
John Hellweg*	MIL	3	0	1	0	1	CHN	Jake Arrieta	16:05
Jon Niese	NYN	5	0	8	7	10	CLE	Corey Kluber	18:05
Alex Wood	ATL	9	0	3	0	3	PHI	Kyle Kendrick	19:05
Justin Verlander	DET	6	0	4	0	8	KC	Danny Duffy*	19:10
J.A. Happ	TOR	0	0	0	0	2	MIN	Kevin Correia	19:10
Tanner Roark*	WAS	8	0	4	0	8	MIA	Nathan Eovaldi	19:10
Jeff Locke	PIT	3	9	10	6	9	STL	Adam Wainwright	19:15
Tyler Chatwood	COL	6	0	3	0	7	SD	Tyson Ross	20:40
Brandon McCarthy	AZ	5	0	4	0	10	SF	Matt Cain	21:05
Derek Holland	TEX	7	6	8	0	7	LAA	Garrett Richards	21:05
Chris Archer	TB	6	8	9	0	9	SEA	James Paxton*	21:10

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.