Daily Notes: Three Types of Chart Regarding Kevin Gausman

May 24, 2013

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

1. Three Types of Chart Regarding Kevin Gausman
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Three Types of Chart Regarding Kevin Gausman
Introduction
Much praised Baltimore right-hander Kevin Gausman made his major-league debut on Thursday, during which he demonstrated considerable promise but also ultimately conceded four runs in five innings (box). Below are three charts and/or graphs relevant to that debut.

Lightly Annotated PITCHf/x Chart
Here’s a lightly annotated PITCHf/x chart of Gausman’s debut, which chart reveals that Gausman most likely threw three different pitches on Thursday: a fastball at 94-98 mph, a changeup at 82-86 mph, and a slider at 82-84 mph.

Poorly Designed Fastball Velocity Chart
This is a poorly designed chart (or perhaps graph, actually) of Gausman’s velocity from his debut by nth fastball thrown — which chart (or perhaps graph, actually) reveals both that (a) Gausman was able to retain his fastball velocity as his pitch count increased and also (b) that the author doesn’t understand how to set the starting interval at 0, such that subsequent labeled intervals would be marked 10, 20, etc.

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Hastily Made Pleasure Bar Graph
This is a hastily made bar graph of the pleasure provided to the author by each of Gausman’s three different pitches, wherein pleasure is measured on a scaled of 0-10, obviously — which bar graph reveals that Gausman’s changeup provided distinctly the most pleasure to the author during his (i.e. Gausman’s) debut.

Action Footage: Gausman’s Changeup
Here’s footage of Gausman’s changeup, thrown to Colby Rasmus in the fourth inning for a swinging strike.

Action Footage: Gausman’s Changeup, Still
Here’s more footage of Gausman’s changeup, from that same at-bat to Colby Rasmus, also for a swinging strike.

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Miami at Chicago AL | 20:10 ET
Tom Koehler (22.1 IP, 101 xFIP-, 0.1 WAR) faces John Danks (N/A). The latter makes his first major-league start since last May — this after demonstrating control problems, however, during his minor-league rehab (13 walks, 97 batters). The former was impressive in his most recent appearance, sitting at 91-95 mph with his fastball while recording lowest single-game xFIP among all starters last Saturday.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Miami Radio, It Would Seem.

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 5.4.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Kyle Kendrick	PHI	4	1	5	2	9	WAS	J. Zimmermann	19:05
Chris Tillman	BAL	3	8	7	4	11	TOR	Sean Nolin*	19:07
Samuel Deduno*	MIN	6	3	7	8	10	DET	Anibal Sanchez	19:08
Kris Medlen	ATL	3	8	4	7	2	NYN	Jeremy Hefner	19:10
Scott Feldman	CHN	2	5	4	5	5	CIN	Bronson Arroyo	19:10
Justin Masterson	CLE	7	9	7	8	7	BOS	John Lackey	19:10
David Phelps	NYA	5	6	6	7	7	TB	Rob. Hernandez	19:10
Jason Vargas	LAA	3	4	4	7	4	KC	Luis Mendoza	20:10
Tom Koehler*	MIA	7	0	5	1	5	CHA	John Danks*	20:10
Tommy Milone	OAK	5	6	4	4	2	HOU	Erik Bedard	20:10
A.J. Burnett	PIT	9	7	7	5	5	MIL	Marco Estrada	20:10
Eric Stults	SD	3	6	5	4	6	AZ	Bran. McCarthy	21:40
Lance Lynn	STL	6	2	5	2	6	LAN	Chris Capuano*	22:10
Justin Grimm	TEX	5	4	4	6	1	SEA	Joe Saunders	22:10
Tyler Chatwood*	COL	6	8	7	5	7	SF	Tim Lincecum	22:15

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.

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Blockhead

12 years ago

The author of this comment believes the pleasurability factor of Gausman’s fastball is being severely underrated by the author of this article.

suicide squeezeMember since 2016

Reply to Blockhead

This comment reads as something that the lovechild of Carson and Perd Hapley would have said.