Daily Notes: The Corey Kluber Society Remains Undaunted
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. The Corey Kluber Society Remains Undaunted
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
The Corey Kluber Society Remains Undaunted
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to announce both (a) a meeting tonight (Tuesday) of the Corey Kluber Society, at 8:10pm ET, and also (b) that the members of the aforementioned Society remain undaunted by Kluber’s last two starts, despite how he’s allowed 10 runs in 10.1 innings.
First of All, Regarding the Corey Kluber Society
The Corey Kluber Society (CKS) — established during time present and time past and time future, simultaneously — is composed of individuals all bound by their singular enthusiasm for the works and days of Cleveland right-hander Corey Kluber.
How to Attend the Meeting
To attend tonight’s meeting, one needs merely to (a) situate himself in front of a broadcast of the Cleveland-Kansas City game and (b) make sure the internet connection upon which the (in this case) MLB.TV broadcast depends doesn’t cease to exist (as it did for the author recently) after, like, two innings, and then (c) expose himself* to Corey Kluber.
*Spiritually, that is. Expose himself spiritually.
Second of All, Regarding Corey Kluber’s Last Two Starts
It is entirely the case that Corey Kluber has conceded 10 runs and recorded a 7.84 ERA over his two most recent starts. It’s also entirely the case that Kluber has recorded an 8:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio and slightly above-average 47.5% ground-ball rate and decidedly above-average 2.91 xFIP over those same 10.1 innings (and 51 batters faced). It’s finally the case that runs allowed are conspicuously fascist.
A Potentially Relevant Excerpt from Emerson’s “Uses of Great Men”
Here’s an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Uses of Great Men” that is likely relevant to Corey Kluber:
The race goes with us on their credit. The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens. But enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting, like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas,- the more, the worse.
Regarding That Excerpt Above, What One Learns from It
That Corey Kluber invented the railroad.
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Arizona at New York NL | 19:10 ET
Patrick Corbin (109.2 IP, 97 xFIP-, 2.3 WAR) faces Jeremy Hefner (87.0 IP, 107 xFIP-, 0.5 WAR). But which of the two is prepared to face himself?
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: New York NL Television.
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 5.5.
Note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wily Peralta | MIL | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 10 | WAS | St. Strasburg | 19:05 |
| Jon. Pettibone | PHI | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | PIT | Jeanmar Gomez | 19:05 |
| Doug Fister | DET | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | TOR | C-M Wang | 19:07 |
| Patrick Corbin | AZ | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | NYN | Jeremy Hefner | 19:10 |
| Tom Koehler | MIA | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 | ATL | Kris Medlen | 19:10 |
| Robbie Erlin* | SD | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | BOS | John Lackey | 19:10 |
| Tim Lincecum | SF | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 10 | CIN | Homer Bailey | 19:10 |
| Joe Saunders | SEA | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | TEX | Justin Grimm | 20:05 |
| Jason Hammel | BAL | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 7 | CHA | John Danks | 20:10 |
| Corey Kluber | CLE | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | KC | Luis Mendoza | 20:10 |
| Phil Hughes | NYA | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | MIN | Samuel Deduno | 20:10 |
| David Price | TB | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | HOU | Erik Bedard | 20:10 |
| Clayton Kershaw | LAN | 9 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 9 | COL | Roy Oswalt* | 20:40 |
| Scott Feldman | CHN | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | OAK | A.J. Griffin | 22:05 |
| Lance Lynn | STL | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | LAA | Jered Weaver | 22:05 |
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.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
If you can find a Cleveland/Baltimore game on TV or anywhere else tonight, more power to you.
Bah. Duly edited. Thanks.
Hey it’s good news for the CKS. Much better to face the Royals than the O’s anyway.
‘She said – Can you get my friends in the Klub?
I said – Can you get my Benz in Da Klub?!’
Any idea when we can expect T.S. Eliot to be called up from Gwinette, Carson? He’s showing good plate discipline and his power has surprised but I hear the Braves are worried about his anti-semitism.
He grows old, he grows old… but he does rock the knee-high socks with his trousers rolled up. Old-school all the way, that guy.
I hear he has a sibling called George Elliot, but he throws like a girl (and is therefore limited to first base).
Not Gomez tonight for the Bucs. Possibly Brandon Cumpton. Certainly not Jeff Locke, who was the original probable. Does this at all affect NERD for PHI-PIT?
I blame the KGB’s deletion of the Corey Kluber Society from Wikipedia for the most recent results.
Is it permissible to join the meeting of the CKS via gamecast?
Sincerely,
Desirous Potential CKS Member Who Lacks a MLB.TV Subscription
*An* MLB.tv subscription
If you come knocking on the Don’s door for a favor, you best know the password.
password1. not case sensitive.
I decline to address case.
I’m a card carrying mamber of the CKS, but actually I’ve been quite daunted by his last couple starts. He was a bit wild against the O’s and got squared up a lot. Hopefully tonight’s exposure is more spiritual and less exposed.
https://www.facebook.com/TheCoreyKluberSociety
Join it
got tshirts?
I’m early! Oh, and I picked up Steve…
After consulting the Oracles, I have learned that one Mr. Feldman won’t be throwing a baseball tonight in Oakland.
C-Train is not easily derailed
Looking forward to tonight’s soiree. I shall try my best to be punctual.
–Not Steve
I, too, am on the bandwagon. You convinced me to pick up CK in my league’s supplemental draft. Am wondering if I do not qualify for CKS as I have no access to Cleveland games to convene in front of.
Also wondering if I’m considered shrewd for being wary of last two match ups and leaving CK on the bench – or heretical for being faithless in the One who brings us together?
Corey Kluber is not hitting 96 on the KC radar gun because the gun is juiced. Corey merely brings out the best of the radar gun.
Cleveland announcer: Mark Reynolds said he recently went golfing with Corey Kluber, and during that outing Kluber got a hole in one. Reynolds said it was one of the only times he’d seen Corey Kluber show emotion. He smiled.
Glad that his excellence isn’t confined to only one sport.
i am feeling daunted.
The Gordon slam did it for me. I hereby rescind my membership to the Corey Kluber Society. Cistulli, you can expect an invoice for my fantasy entry fee if this clown costs me the title.
Next start is DET. I think I want off this ride.
I think he panicked after the back to back singles. Maybe he’s a bit of a head case. If he can keep calm under pressure then I think he’ll reach his xFIP, but if he continues to stake himself to 3-0 counts when the bases are loaded then his LOB% will never normalize.
I’m still a believer because of those first four innings, but it sure is frustrating.
Still riding this bandwagon. One regrettable inning. I’m sticking to the club just because of the enormity of bad luck he’s having.
How long do you chalk it up to “bad luck” before considering that it’s actual player performance?
This Kluber fetishism and how daily notes is being written nowadays is really starting to grind my gears.
Apparently, too many fangraphs readers are easily amused or not especially well read and think Cistulli is doing something original or interesting with his empty pseudo-archaism. It’s a great way to fill a column without having to do any real thinking, though, so as long as nobody stands up to say “Hey, bud, we’ve read David Foster Wallace, too. Get the hell on with it,” I guess he’ll keep it up.