One Night Only: Game Previews for August 12th

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August 12, 2011


Poorly conceived, poorly executed.

Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (5) at Toronto (6) | 19:07 ET
• On the one hand, David Price (10) and CC Sabathia (10) face each other in New York tonight.
• On the other hand, that game is largely meaningless as regards playoff implications.
• Meanwhile, the Angels are just two games behind the Rangers.
• And Brandon Morrow (10, as well) is pitching excellently this season.
• Like, the type of excellent where he has the seventh-best SIERA (3.02) among qualified pitchers — i.e. better (if only slightly) than both Price and Sabathia.

Audio Feed: Blue Jays Radio.

Also Playing
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.

The following Game Scores include the new and improved playoff-odds adjustment, which you can learn about in your brain by clicking here.

Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
Brad Penny DET 1 2 4 2 6 BAL Alfredo Simon 19:05
Carl Pavano MIN 4 0 6 6 7 CLE Justin Masterson 19:05
David Price TB 10 6 8 10 10 NYA CC Sabathia 19:05
Livan Hernandez WAS 3 4 4 3 10 PHI Cole Hamels 19:05
Ervin Santana LAA 7 5 9 6 10 TOR Brandon Morrow 19:07
Mat Latos SD 8 6 5 5 4 CIN Bronson Arroyo 19:10
Matt Cain SF 6 3 7 9 7 FL Ricky Nolasco 19:10
Carlos Zambrano CHN 3 2 4 4 7 ATL Mike Minor 19:35
Bruce Chen KC 2 10 4 1 4 CHA Zach Stewart 20:10
Paul Maholm PIT 3 5 6 7 10 MIL Zack Greinke 20:10
Aaron Cook COL 2 6 5 3 3 STL Kyle Lohse 20:15
Dillon Gee NYN 3 6 6 9 7 AZ Ian Kennedy 21:40
C.J. Wilson TEX 6 8 6 1 7 OAK Brandon McCarthy 22:05
John Lackey BOS 4 10 3 0 4 SEA Blake Beavan 22:10
Bud Norris HOU 7 3 6 4 10 LAN Nathan Eovaldi* 22:10

NERD represents an attempt to anticipate the watchability of a game for the baseballing enthusiast.
To learn more about Pitcher NERD, click here and scroll down a little.
To learn more about latest Team NERD, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.





 

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steve
12 years ago

let’s not forget the rain of boos vernon wells will receive, to both hilarious and shameful results

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SC2GG
12 years ago
Reply to  steve

There is a campaign underway to not boo Wells.
See: http://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2011/8/8/2352539/please-do-not-boo-vernon-wells

Highlight quote:
Twitter and agree that VW deserves applause, send out thwips using the #dontbooVW tag over the next few days.

While the sentiment is admirable, good luck with that. Personally, I hope for no boos, it isn’t as if Wells is bad guy at all. He’s more like a guy who won the lottery, except in order for him to actually collect his winnings he has to still go to work every day and act like he’s retired instead of being actually retired like everyone else in his situation would be.

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steve
12 years ago
Reply to  SC2GG

the really sad thing is the jays paid vernon like 60M for a decade of his services. people complained about his contract and the jays arent even the ones who ultimately paid for much of it at all. it was severely backloaded

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VB
12 years ago
Reply to  SC2GG

I agree 100% with Steve.

Using a simple $5MM of worth per WAR, his excess value over what we paid him, is something like $61.75MM over the past 10 years (including this years $5MM, and Juan Rivera’s $5.25MM).

How someone like that gets boo’ed boggles my mind.

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siggian
12 years ago
Reply to  steve

Why boo Wells? It’s not like he demanded a trade or deliberately sucked to force a trade. He’s a guy who always ran out grounders and popups when many others wouldn’t. He often played when perhaps he shouldn’t have because of injuries.

Finally, he is highly recognized for his philanthropy, both elsewhere and in Toronto. He won the MLB award for his contributions.

If you are booing him because of his contract, note that the Jays actually haven’t paid that much for it. LAA is on the hook for it, not the Jays. Also, if your boss came to you and offered to triple your salary, would you refuse?

Cheer for a good former player who had problems reaching his potential but always played hard. If you can’t bring yourself to cheer, then sit on your hands. Don’t boo one of the genuine good guys in baseball.

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