Daily Notes, With Adam Wainwright’s Virile Curveball

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

1. Featured Game: Atlanta at St. Louis, 19:15 ET (Free Game)
2. Video: Adam Wainwright’s Virile Curveball
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Featured Game: Atlanta at St. Louis, 19:15 ET
Regarding Who’s Starting Tonight for St. Louis
In terms of who’s starting tonight for St. Louis, it’s handsome and able right-hander Adam Wainwright.

Regarding Adam Wainwright, His Line So Far
In terms of Adam Wainwright and his line so far (through six starts, now), this is it: 33.2 IP, 24.3% K, 5.0% BB, 55.8% GB, 2.70 SIERA, 73 xFIP-, 0.1 WAR.

Regarding That Line Relative to Wainwright’s Career Numbers
Every number in Wainwright’s current line — with the exception of the WAR mark — would constitute a career best.

Regarding What One Guy Somewhere Is Probably Saying About That
One guy somewhere is probably saying — with regard to that comment about how Wainwright is posting career-best numbers — a guy somewhere is probably saying, “Um, sample size much?”

Regarding How I’ll Treat That Aforementioned Guy
In terms of that fictional guy who made the “sample size” comment, I’ll regard him with love and respect because he’s my fellow traveler in our respective slow marches to icy cold death.

Regarding How I’ll Also Treat Him
Maybe pants him if he gets really annoying.

Regarding All the Other Things That Deserve Attention
In terms of this game and the other things that deserve attention about it, here’s one: the Cardinals offense, which currently leads the majors with a 132 wRC+ and consists of six players who’ve already posted better than a 1.0 WAR.

Watching This Game, How Much That Costs
Watching this game is totally gratis if you have access to MLB.TV, on account of it’s that service’s Free Game of the Day or whatever.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast
Per the results of our offseason crowdsourcing project, FanGraphs readers prefer neither television broadcast, really (link).

Video: Adam Wainwright’s Virile Curveball
Watch Adam Wainwright’s virile curveball (at 0:11 and 1:05) and get all impregnanted with wonder.

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.

Regard, a magnificent and sortable table:

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Jerome Williams	LAA	5	2	6	10	6	TEX	Matt Harrison	13:05
Chris Volstad	CHN	4	2	4	6	5	MIL	Shaun Marcum	13:05
R.A. Dickey	NYN	10	2	6	4	4	MIA	Ricky Nolasco	13:05
Hector Noesi	SEA	2	4	4	7	5	NYA	Phil Hughes	16:05
J.A. Happ	HOU	5	6	5	1	6	PIT	Charlie Morton	19:05
Edinson Volquez	SD	5	5	5	3	6	PHI	Roy Halladay	19:05
Matt Moore	TB	4	7	4	6	1	BAL	Brian Matusz	19:05
Josh Tomlin	CLE	7	4	6	5	6	BOS	Felix Doubront	19:10
Luke Hochevar	KC	3	8	6	5	8	CHA	Chris Sale	19:10
Drew Hutchison	TOR	7	6	5	3	4	MIN	P.J. Walters*	19:10
Jordan Zimmermann	WAS	7	1	6	4	6	CIN	Mat Latos	19:10
Brandon Beachy	ATL	5	8	8	10	9	STL	Adam Wainwright	19:15
Doug Fister*	DET	8	2	5	4	3	OAK	Brandon McCarthy	20:05
Matt Cain	SF	7	4	6	6	5	AZ	Trevor Cahill	20:10
Juan Nicasio	COL	5	8	5	6	4	LAN	Aaron Harang	21:10

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.