Table of ContentsHeres the table of contents for todays edition from the Daily Notes. 1.
Dylan Thompson Jersey Featured Game: Baltimore at Washington, 19:05pm ET2. Todays MLB.TV Free Game3. Todays Complete Schedule Featured Game: Baltimore at Washington, 19:05pm ETRegarding the Purpose of These NotesThis edition of the Daily Notes, broadly speaking, is designed to amuse and/or inform the FanGraphs readership, which readership is usually made up of individuals worried about thoughtful baseball analysis. Regarding Another Reason for These NotesThis edition of the Daily Notes, more particularly, is supposed to alert the readership to some mostly compelling debut scheduled to occur Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. namely, the debut of Nationals right-handed pitching prospect Nate Karns. Regarding Nate Karns, Five Salient PointsWith regard to Karns and just what about his debut is mostly compelling, listed here are five relevant facts: Throws fastball in about 92-95 mph range, according to internet sources. Throws curve to which Keith Law, for example, has addre sed a brief love poem. Has posted a 55:18 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 45.0 innings in Double-A Eastern League this year. Posted 148:47 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 116.0 innings last season between Cla s-A and High-A. Before that, mi sed all 2010 contributing to half of 2011 to labrum surgery and subsequent rehab. Prospect StatusHeres where Karns was ranked among Nationals prospects on various preseason organizational lists: Baseball America: 5th.Baseball Prospectus: 5th.
Todd Gurley II Jersey Bullpen Banter: N/A (of 15).FanGraphs: 13th.Keith Law: 5th.John Sickels: 6th. Mediocre Footage: Karns FastballHeres footage from a decidedly off-center camera angle of Karns throwing his fastball at 93 mph past Mike Baxter in spring training: Mediocre Footage: Karns CurveballHeres footage from that very same bet on Karns curveball at 84 mph in this case, to strike out Mets catching prospect Travis DArnaud: Non-Extant Footage: Karns ChangeupReports suggest that Karns throws a changeup; however, the writer who, to be clear, was employing minimal effort was not able to find any footage of Karns throwing it during the spring-training game from above. Also Worthy of NoteAlso worthy of note regarding farmville is when very young right-hander Kevin Gausman is beginning it for Baltimore. Gausman made his debut last Thursday,
Aaron Green Jersey during which he demonstrated considerable promise but also ultimately conceded four runs to Toronto in five innings (box). Important Video: Kevin Gausmans Swinging Strikes Set to Van HalenFor no immediately discernible reason(s), the author produced the following video a week ago, which video depicts all Kevin Gausmans swinging strikes from his debut and it is set, for some reason, to a 14-year-old French girls rendition of the solo from Van Halens Eruption. Readers Preferred BroadcastPer the outcomes in our crowdsourcing project from the 2011-2012 offseason, FanGraphs readers prefer Washington Radio, probably (link). Todays MLB.TV Free GameSan Francisco at Oakland | 22:05 ETMike Kickham (54.0 IP, 9.0 K/9, 3.7 BB/9 at Triple-A) faces Jarrod Parker (54.2 IP, 119 xFIP-, -0.4 WAR). The previous makes his major-league debut. Originally a
Nick Foles Jersey sixth-round pick by Bay area from Mi souri State this year, the left-handed Kickham was ranked sixth among Giants prospects entering the growing season by our Marc Hulet. Readers Preferred Broadcast: Bay area Radio or Television. Todays Complete ScheduleHeres the entire schedule for
Rodger Saffold Jersey all of todays 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 5.7. Note: the next table is entirely sortable. Away SPTm.Gm.Tm.SPHomeTimePaul MaholmATL58553TORBran. Morrow12:37Jorge en RosaCOL37556HOUJordan Lyles14:10Kevin Gausman*BAL109929WASNate Karns*19:05Jeanmar GomezPIT37688DETRick Porcello19:08Zach McAllisterCLE49657CINMat Latos19:10Kevin SloweyMIA40475TBJer. Hellickson19:10Hiroki KurodaNYA467710NYNMatt Harvey19:10Cliff LeePHI61676BOSRyan Dempster19:10Edwin JacksonCHN647010CHAChris Sale20:10Scott DiamondMIN33558MILAlfredo Figaro*20:10Tyler Lyons*STL72667KCErvin Santana20:10Mike Kickham*SF75563OAKJarrod Parker22:05Joe BlantonLAA54526LANHyun-Jin Ryu22:10Edinson VolquezSD27464SEABrandon Maurer22:10To find out how Pitcher and Team NERD Scores are calculated, click here.To find out how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.
