Daily Notes, With a List of First-Round Signees So Far

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

1. First-Round Draft Signees So Far
2. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

First-Round Draft Signees So Far
So far as I can tell — and I’ll admit to not having searched with what one might call “utmost vigor” — there’s no readily available and free resource with information both on which first-round draftees have signed so far and for how much. The following table does include that information — along with the corresponding suggested slot value of each pick.

Note: both Baseball America’s draft results page and the internet, generally speaking, were helpful in the creation of the following table.

Of note: all of the above have signed either for or below the prescribed slot value.

Today’s Notable Games
Tampa Bay at Miami | 13:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Regarding why Florida is called that, from Wikipedia:

It is Spanish custom to name a place after the nearest Roman Catholic feast. [Ponce de León] arrived on the east coast during the Spanish Easter feast, Pascua Florida, April 7. He named the land La Pascua de la Florida, or “Passion of the Flowers,” or “Passion of the Christ”

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Tampa Bay Radio.

Philadelphia at Baltimore | 13:35 ET
Cliff Lee (64.2 IP, 67 xFIP-, 1.7 WAR) faces the surprising Jason Hammel (66.2 IP, 80 xFIP-, 1.5 WAR) and the also very surprising Baltimore Orioles (1.0 games behind Tampa Bay in AL East, with a WAR record to suggests it’s not entirely a fluke).

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Philadelphia Radio (Although, note that the Baltimore center-field camera, which is quite good, might not be available on the Philadelphia side).

Toronto at Atlanta | 13:35 ET
Highly rated right-handed pitching prospect Julio Teheran, 21, makes his season debut for Atlanta today. His (not particularly impressive, turns out) line so far at Triple-A Gwinnett: 54.1 IP, 7.12 K/9, 3.48 BB/9, 1.33 HR/9, 4.97 FIP.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Toronto or Atlanta 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 5.5.

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
Jonathon Niese	NYN	7	1	7	6	9	NYA	Andy Pettitte	13:05
James Shields	TB	9	5	7	3	8	MIA	Anibal Sanchez	13:10
Bruce Chen	KC	3	5	5	2	8	PIT	A.J. Burnett	13:35
Cliff Lee	PHI	10	5	8	4	8	BAL	Jason Hammel	13:35
Ricky Romero	TOR	3	6	7	7	8	ATL	Julio Teheran*	13:35
Jord. Zimmermann	WAS	8	4	7	5	6	BOS	Jon Lester	13:35
Ryan Dempster	CHN	6	3	3	3	5	MIN	Francisco Liriano	14;10
Lucas Harrell	HOU	4	5	3	5	3	CHA	Philip Humber	14:10
Anthony Bass	SD	7	6	5	6	5	MIL	Yovani Gallardo	14:10
Ubaldo Jimenez	CLE	0	4	5	10	7	STL	Joe Kelly*	14:15
Ervin Santana	LAA	3	3	6	8	9	COL	Christian Friedrich	15:10
Alexi Ogando	TEX	8	10	7	4	6	SF	Tim Lincecum	16:05
Chad Billingsley	LAN	5	5	4	5	3	SEA	Blake Beavan	16:10
Travis Blackley*	OAK	5	3	4	5	2	AZ	Joe Saunders	16:10
Drew Smyly	DET	6	5	5	4	5	CIN	Homer Bailey	20:00

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.