Daily Notes, With a Completely Stirring Hyperlink

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

1. Stirring Hyperlink: BA’s Midseason Top-50 Prospects
2. Notable MLB Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Stirring Hyperlink: BA’s Midseason Top-50 Prospects
Regarding What Happened Yesterday
The thing that happened yesterday is, is Baseball America made available to Navigators of the Internet its midseason top-50 prospect list.

The Reader’s Likely Reaction to That
Rendered in video form, here’s how the reader is likely reacting to that sort of information:

In Terms of Navigating to the Aforementioned Prospect List
In terms of navigating to BA’s midseason prospect list, it’s necessary to follow this hyperlink.

Regarding Whether It’s Dangerous to Do So
Very, one assumes.

Regarding Whether It Requires Courage
Of course, is the only possible answer.

What the Reader Is Likely to Find There
The reader will find, among other things, the following players ranked one through ten (accompanied, in this case, by preseason top-100 ranks):

Rank	Name	Pos	Team	Prev
1	Dylan Bundy	rhp	Orioles	10
2	Jurickson Profar	ss	Rangers	7
3	Wil Myers	of	Royals	28
4	Taijuan Walker	rhp	Mariners	20
5	Danny Hultzen	lhp	Mariners	21
6	Gerrit Cole	rhp	Pirates	12
7	Tyler Skaggs	lhp	Diamondbacks	13
8	Jose Fernandez	rhp	Marlins	N/A
9	Manny Machado	ss	Orioles	11
10	Zack Wheeler	rhp	Mets	35

Idle Observation
The author actually saw the previously unranked Fernandez pitch this spring in Jupiter, even capturing very poor video of the right-hander in game action on the backfields.

Notable MLB Games
Minnesota at Texas | 20:05 ET
Rangers left-hander Martin Perez, 21, with (a) what is widely considered an advanced repertoire and (b) decidedly underwhelming minor-league numbers. Thus it was with some anticipation that the Baseballing Public awaited his start, which, on the whole, was a success. To wit: 5.1 IP, 23 TBF, 5 K, 1 BB, 7 GB on 17 batted-balls (41.2%), 3.13 xFIP. Here’s what Perez threw, according to Texas Leaguers’ PITCHf/x data (usage and velocity in parentheses): two-seam fastball (35.0%, 92.3), changeup (27.2%, 81.8), four-seam fastball (24.3%, 92.7), curve (12.6%, 75.1).

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Texas Radio.

Miami at St. Louis | 20:15 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
The Cardinals continue to have the highest WAR winning percentage (.570) in the their division by kinda a lot (the Reds are next, at .526) and continue not to be in first place in said division (currently 2.5 games behind NL Central-leading Pittsburgh).

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: St. Louis 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 4.7.

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
Tim Hudson	ATL	6	8	5	5	2	PHI	Kyle Kendrick	19:05
Drew Pomeranz	COL	2	10	5	6	10	WAS	Stephen Strasburg	19:05
Jonathan Sanchez	KC	0	5	3	4	6	DET	Drew Smyly	19:05
Barry Zito	SF	0	4	3	4	4	PIT	Erik Bedard	19:05
Alex Cobb	TB	7	4	7	5	5	CLE	Justin Masterson	19:05
Travis Wood	CHN	3	1	3	2	6	NYN	Johan Santana	19:10
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	5	6	6	5	6	BOS	Josh Beckett	19:10
Yovani Gallardo	MIL	5	7	4	5	5	HOU	J.A. Happ	20:05
Francisco Liriano	MIN	5	4	8	10	15	TEX	Martin Perez*	20:05
Aaron Laffey*	TOR	5	7	6	6	6	CHA	Jake Peavy	20:10
Ricky Nolasco	MIA	4	3	5	10	6	STL	Jake Westbrook	20:15
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	9	2	7	6	7	AZ	Josh Collmenter	21:40
Undecided	BAL	5	2	4	5	3	LAA	C.J. Wilson	22:05
Bronson Arroyo	CIN	4	3	3	5	3	SD	Kip Wells*	22:05
Kevin Millwood	SEA	3	3	3	4	5	OAK	Tommy Milone	22:05

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.