Daily Notes: With a Panoply of Facts Regarding Cleveland

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

1. Featured Game: Philadelphia at Cleveland, 19:05 ET
2. Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Featured Game: Philadelphia at Cleveland, 19:05 ET
A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The Baseball Team
After their 14-2 victory over Philadelphia on Tuesday (box), Cleveland now leads the majors in park-adjusted batting by a substantial margin, with a 120 wRC+.

A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The City
In Cleveland, all love is unrequited love.

A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The Baseball Team
In no small part due to the seven home runs they hit collectively on Tuesday, Cleveland now also leads the majors in park-adjusted home-run rate (4.0%) — at least by the author’s own hasty calculations.

A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The City
Moses Cleaveland famously declared, upon founding the city which now bears his name, “I guess this’ll do!”

A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The Baseball Team
Despite exhibiting decided command issues in his only major-league start this season, Trevor Bauer (who pitches for Cleveland) has been excellent at Triple-A this season, posting a 24:6 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 18.0 innings over three starts there.

A Fact Regarding Cleveland, The City
While Brooklyn is famously “motherless,” Cleveland met neither of its birth parents and, in fact, has been smoking filterless cigarettes since its sixth birthday.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast
Per the results of our crowdsourcing project from the 2011-2012 offseason, FanGraphs readers prefer Cleveland Radio (link).

Other Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
Cincinnati at St. Louis | 13:45 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Right-hander Homer Bailey pitches for the Reds. He’s been excellent thus far. To wit: 5 GS, 32.0 IP, 25.4% K, 7.1% BB, 56.3% GB, 3.16 SIERA, 78 xFIP-, 0.7 WAR. “Is he doing something different?” one wonders. Perhaps throwing a bit harder, indicates his PITCHf/x data.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: St. Louis Radio.

Houston at New York AL | 20:10 ET
David Phelps makes his first start of the season, in place of an injured Ivan Nova. Phelps has been totally able in relief so far (17.0 IP, 85 xFIP-). Also of note with regard to this game: the certain knowledge that MVPs of the Heart, both Robbie Grossman and Corban Joseph, could appear at any moment.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Houston 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 4.9.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Dillon Gee	NYN	2	8	3	0	2	MIA	Wade LeBlanc	12:40
Scott Diamond*	MIN	5	2	6	5	9	DET	Anibal Sanchez	13:08
Jeanmar Gomez*	PIT	2	7	4	6	3	MIL	Hiram Burgos*	13:10
Homer Bailey	CIN	9	4	6	2	6	STL	Lance Lynn	13:45
C.J. Wilson	LAA	3	3	4	7	5	OAK	Tommy Milone	15:35
Erik Bedard*	HOU	5	7	6	6	6	NYA	David Phelps*	19:05
Cliff Lee	PHI	6	2	7	10	8	CLE	Trevor Bauer*	19:05
Clay Buchholz	BOS	7	8	5	3	3	TOR	Mark Buehrle	19:07
Jord. Zimmermann	WAS	6	3	6	9	5	ATL	Paul Maholm	19:10
Chris Sale	CHA	7	2	6	4	6	TEX	Nick Tepesch	20:05
Andrew Cashner*	SD	8	4	4	5	0	CHN	Scott Feldman	20:05
Jeremy Hellickson	TB	6	7	5	7	3	KC	Luis Mendoza*	20:10
Tim Lincecum	SF	5	5	5	4	6	AZ	Brandon McCarthy	21:40
Wei-Yin Chen	BAL	1	7	3	4	4	SEA	Aaron Harang*	22:10
Juan Nicasio	COL	2	7	4	2	6	LAN	Josh Beckett	22:10

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.