Daily Notes, With News About News About News

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

1. News About News About News
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

News About News About News
At Daily Notes, we don’t make the news — we copy and paste the news from other sources and then change maybe, like, every tenth word or whatever.

Oakland Prospect Choice Out for Season
Oakland outfield prospect Michael Choice was placed on the disabled list on Tuesday, and will miss the remainder of the 2012 season after suffering a broken hand from a hit-by-pitch on Saturday night, reports MLB.com John Parker. Choice, who was ranked second among Oakland prospects before the season by our Marc Hulet, produced one of the more impressive offensive performances of the Arizona Fall League, per a stat made up by the author. He was slashing .287/.356/.423 (.352 BABIP) in 402 plate appearances at Double-A Midland at the time of the injury.

White Sox Prospect Mitchell Promoted Tuesday
Former first-round pick and current Chicago White Sox outfield prospect Jared Mitchell — notable both for his (a) raw athleticism and (b) difficulties with making contact — was promoted by the club from Double-A Birmingham to Triple-A Charlotte on Tuesday, reports Toni Ginnetti of the Chicago Sun-Times. After missing all of 2010 with an ankle injury and posting decidedly underwhelming numbers in 2011 at High-A Winston-Salem, Mitchell (now 23) was slashing .240/.368/.440 (.350 BABIP) in Birmingham, with a 15.2% walk and 30.9% strikeout rate.

Hernandez (né Carmona) to Make First Appearance Since You-Know-What
According to MLB.com’s Justin Albers, the Cleveland Indians announced Tuesday that right-hander Roberto Hernandez (whom the reader will know as Fausto Carmona) will make his first appearance — a start for Low-A affiliate Lake County on Thursday night — since You-Know-What happened. “He hasn’t pitched in an affiliated game since that thing we all know about happened,” Indians manager Manny Acta didn’t actually say. Nor did he continue: “When things like that one thing that happened happen — well, who knows what happens next.”

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Minnesota at Chicago AL | 14:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Only barely related, but something the author just saw at Dunn’s player page: in 2009, then-National Adam Dunn posted a 142 wRC+ over 668 plate appearances and yet managed just a 1.1 WAR.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Minnesota 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 4.5.

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
Stephe. Strasburg	WAS	10	7	6	3	6	NYN	Jeremy Hefner	12:10
Ryan Dempster	CHN	6	0	2	5	2	PIT	Kevin Correia	12:35
Tommy Hanson	ATL	4	8	4	3	4	MIA	Ricky Nolasco	12:40
Marco Estrada	MIL	9	7	5	6	6	PHI	Vance Worley	13:05
Nick Blackburn	MIN	1	3	3	4	6	CHA	Jake Peavy	14:10
Luke Hochevar	KC	5	7	4	6	4	LAA	Jered Weaver	15:35
Ivan Nova	NYA	7	7	4	3	4	SEA	Hisashi Iwakuma	15:40
Jason Marquis	SD	3	5	4	4	7	SF	Tim Lincecum	15:45
Max Scherzer	DET	10	4	5	4	1	CLE	Derek Lowe	19:05
David Price	TB	9	5	6	1	7	BAL	Miguel Gonzalez	19:05
A.J. Griffin	OAK	5	4	5	7	2	TOR	Ricky Romero	19:07
Josh Beckett	BOS	6	5	5	8	5	TEX	Derek Holland	20:05
Homer Bailey	CIN	6	4	4	4	6	HOU	Bud Norris	20:05
Aaron Harang	LAN	2	1	5	9	4	STL	Kyle Lohse	20:15
Jeff Francis	COL	5	9	5	8	5	AZ	Trevor Cahill	21:40

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.