Daily Notes: Rest-of-Season Leaderboards for Hitters, Pitchers

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

1. Rest-of-Season Leaderboards for Hitters, Pitchers
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Rest-of-Season Leaderboards for Hitters, Pitchers
Introduction
While Italian people are famously always like “che sarà” this and “sarà” that, it would appear as though the baseballing public’s relationship with the future is considerably more fraught. With a view towards easing whatever such anxieties might exist among this site’s readership, the author has prepared the following — namely, hitting and pitching leaderboards for the rest of the season, created from the projections freely available at the site.

For each hitter below is included his projected rest-of-season plate appearances, wOBA, and WAR; for each pitcher, projected rest-of-season innings, ERA, and WAR. Column headings preceded by an s denote Steamer projections; z, ZiPS projections; and c, a combination of the two.

A full list of both hitter and pitcher rest-of-season projections is available as a web page here.

Rest-of-Season Leaderboard: Hitters
Here are the top-10 batters by combined rest-of-season WAR from the Steamer and ZiPS projections systems:

Player	sPA	swOBA	sWAR	zPA	zwOBA	zWAR	cPA	cwOBA	cWAR
Mike Trout	240	.388	2.7	236	.388	2.7	238	.388	2.7
Miguel Cabrera	233	.424	2.6	227	.425	2.5	230	.425	2.6
Buster Posey	224	.384	2.6	198	.375	2.1	211	.380	2.4
Evan Longoria	196	.370	2.0	191	.361	1.9	194	.366	2.0
Andrew McCutchen	213	.378	2.0	220	.369	1.9	217	.374	2.0
Robinson Cano	227	.366	1.8	226	.373	1.9	227	.370	1.9
David Wright	205	.368	1.8	217	.364	1.8	211	.366	1.8
Joey Votto	197	.401	1.7	201	.408	1.8	199	.405	1.8
Troy Tulowitzki	178	.394	1.7	145	.395	1.6	162	.395	1.7
Jose Bautista	208	.386	1.7	182	.388	1.6	195	.387	1.7

Rest-of-Season Leaderboard: Pitchers
Here are the top-10 pitchers by combined rest-of-season WAR from the Steamer and ZiPS projections systems:

Player	sIP	sERA	sWAR	zIP	zERA	zWAR	cIP	cERA	cWAR
Felix Hernandez	63.0	3.19	1.5	76.0	2.97	1.9	69.5	3.08	1.7
Yu Darvish	62.0	3.09	1.7	62.0	3.43	1.5	62.0	3.26	1.6
Justin Verlander	65.0	3.56	1.2	75.0	3.29	1.8	70.0	3.43	1.5
Clayton Kershaw	67.0	3.11	1.2	76.0	2.51	1.7	71.5	2.81	1.5
Chris Sale	65.0	3.34	1.5	64.0	3.27	1.4	64.5	3.31	1.5
Adam Wainwright	64.0	3.18	1.3	66.0	3.13	1.4	65.0	3.16	1.4
Max Scherzer	59.0	3.18	1.3	65.0	3.77	1.4	62.0	3.48	1.4
Cliff Lee	63.0	3.26	1.2	66.0	3.25	1.4	64.5	3.26	1.3
CC Sabathia	61.0	3.64	1.2	70.0	3.99	1.2	65.5	3.82	1.2
David Price	63.0	3.45	1.2	62.0	3.23	1.1	62.5	3.34	1.2

Notes
• A rest-of-season ZiPS projection appears to be absent from Dodger wunderkind Yasiel Puig’s player page. His Steamer rest-of-season WAR projection (1.4) places him about 20th among hitters.

• Recent Colorado debutant, right-hander Chad Bettis, would appear to be the best pitcher for whom there’s not both a Steamer and ZiPS projection. Steamer projects him to record a 4.07 FIP and 0.3 WAR in 24.0 innings.

• Texas outfielder Craig Gentry has the highest WAR projection per 600 plate appearances of any player who lacks a starting role.

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Washington at Milwaukee | 14:10 ET
Taylor Jordan (35.1 IP, 95 xFIP-, 0.6 WAR) faces Kyle Lohse (134.1 IP, 104 xFIP-, 1.1 WAR). The former has been quite effective, actually, after a difficult late-June debut — largely on the strength of a 3.4% walk and 57.6% ground-ball rate.

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 4.9.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Andre Rienzo*	CHA	6	1	6	8	8	DET	Rick Porcello	13:08
Scott Kazmir	CLE	6	7	5	1	5	MIA	Nathan Eovaldi	13:10
Ervin Santana	KC	7	6	6	7	4	NYN	Zack Wheeler	13:10
Lance Lynn	STL	6	3	5	3	5	CIN	Mike Leake	13:10
Bran. McCarthy	AZ	6	2	5	8	4	BOS	Felix Doubront	13:35
Juan Nicasio	COL	4	8	6	7	8	PIT	A.J. Burnett	13:35
Joe Saunders	SEA	3	5	4	8	3	BAL	Wei-Yin Chen	13:35
G. Moscoso*	SF	2	5	5	10	6	TB	R. Hernandez	13:40
Brad Peacock	HOU	0	4	1	2	1	MIN	Mike Pelfrey	14:10
Taylor Jordan	WAS	7	2	5	5	5	MIL	Kyle Lohse	14:10
Zack Greinke	LAN	5	3	4	5	3	CHN	C. Villanueva	14:20
Mark Buehrle	TOR	4	7	5	7	4	LAA	C.J. Wilson	15:35
Derek Holland	TEX	8	3	6	6	5	OAK	A.J. Griffin	16:05
Phil Hughes	NYA	5	2	4	6	4	SD	Ian Kennedy	16:10
Alex Wood*	ATL	8	7	7	1	9	PHI	Cliff Lee	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.