Daily Notes: Not for Nothing, Daniel Straily

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

1. Not for Nothing, Daniel Straily
2. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Not for Nothing, Daniel Straily
Regarding the Author, What He Did This Weekend
This weekend, the author went out to dinner twice to a pair of entirely satisfactory area restaurants, escorted his wife on a totally innocent and pleasant walk around the neighborhood, and watched (and enjoyed) Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for the first time.

Regarding the Author, What He Mostly Did This Weekend
What the author mostly did this weekend, however — probably way more than that other stuff — is think about Oakland minor-league right-hander and 23-year-old Daniel Straily.

Regarding Straily, His Line at Double-A This Year
Here’s Straily’s line at Double-A Midland this year: 85.1 IP, 11.39 K/9, 2.43 BB/9, 0.63 HR/9, 2.57 FIP.

Regarding Straily, His Line at Triple-A This Year
Here’s Straily’s line — following a promotion — his line at Triple-A Sacramento this year: 41.0 IP, 11.85 K/9, 2.85 BB/9, 0.44 HR/9, 2.15 FIP.

Regarding Straily, His Prospect Ranking This Past Preseason
Research reveals that Straily was ranked usually around infinity on most preseason prospect lists.

Regarding Straily, His Prospect Ranking Now, Probably
Straily’s ranking on most prospect lists is probably around one or less than one, now.

Straily’s Fastball, Video of It
Here’s video of Straily’s fastball, which sits at around 91-94 mph, according to the internet:

Straily’s Slider, Video of It
Here’s other video, this time of Straily’s slider:

Straily’s Changeup, Video of It
Here’s a third video — in this case, of Straily’s filthy, filthy changeup:

 

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Other Notable Games
Los Angeles NL at St. Louis | 20:15 ET
Of note: the Cardinals are second among all major-league teams by wRC+ (112); first overall by batting-cum-fielding WAR; and have the third-highest WAR winning percentage in the majors. That they remain 5.0 games out in the NL Central suggests that sometimes baseball is the sort of thing about which one might have problems formulating predictions.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: St. Louis Radio.

Colorado at Arizona | 21:40 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
As of Sunday, these two clubs are among the top five (along with Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Boston) in terms of differential between WAR wins and actual wins. For example, Colorado’s actual record (as of Sunday): 36-57. And their WAR record: 40.9-52.1. And Arizona’s actual record on Sunday: 46-48. But their WAR record, though: 51.4-42.6.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Arizona 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 4.2.

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
Tommy Hunter	BAL	4	1	3	4	4	CLE	Justin Masterson	19:05
Jeff Samardzija	CHN	10	0	4	5	4	PIT	Erik Bedard	19:05
Randy Wolf	MIL	3	6	4	5	8	PHI	Roy Halladay	19:05
Mike Minor	ATL	3	8	5	3	7	MIA	Josh Johnson	19:10
Jor. Zimmermann	WAS	8	7	3	3	0	NYN	Chris Young	19:10
Felix Doubront	BOS	7	5	6	8	4	TEX	Scott Feldman	20:05
Mat Latos	CIN	8	4	4	4	5	HOU	Wandy Rodriguez	20:05
Francisco Liriano	MIN	7	3	5	4	5	CHA	Gavin Floyd	20:10
Chad Billingsley	LAN	7	1	7	9	5	STL	Joe Kelly	20:15
Jonathan Sanchez	COL	0	9	3	7	6	AZ	Ian Kennedy	21:40
Bruce Chen	KC	4	6	4	5	4	LAA	C.J. Wilson	22:05
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	5	6	3	4	3	SEA	Kevin Millwood	22:10
Clayton Richard	SD	4	6	3	4	3	SF	Ryan Vogelsong	22:15

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.