2008
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By Chris Quick on December 31, 2008
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Posted in Giants, Popular | Tagged 2009 team, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, noah lowry, projections, randy johnson, sergio romo, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 30, 2008
Today, I’ll be starting my 2009 Wins Above Replacement projection for the Giants. I’ve done some WAR-related stuff on this website before, but if you’re new to the idea, check out this link. It’s a good place to get started. Also, FanGraphs just posted a two-part article on Win Values. It’s also a very good [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, fred lewis, hitting, pablo sandoval, position players, projections, randy winn, travis ishikawa, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 29, 2008
The Giants have signed Randy Johnson to a 1-year, $8M contract. What a nice surprise to find waiting for me and other Giants fans after coming back from the holiday weekend. In 2008, the 44-year-old Johnson (he’ll be 45-years-old in ’09) showed the world that he had plenty of gas left in the tank. Last [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged free agent acquisition, pitchf/x, pitching, randy johnson
By Chris Quick on December 23, 2008
I wanted to do a quick Wins Above Replacement post on Joe Crede and Pablo Sandoval. I’ve been pro Crede this offseason for a couple of reasons. He’s essentially a league average hitter with plus-defense that’s battled injuries over the past two seasons. Because he’s been stuck in the trainers room so much lately, he [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged fat dudes, joe crede, pablo sandoval, Third Base
By Chris Quick on December 22, 2008
I thought I’d mention that I’ve joined the staff off Beyond the Boxscore to occasionally post on baseball. BTB is a member of the SportsBlog Nation network. They do really good work and they’ve got some great people writing for BTB. I’m thrilled to be a part of the team. And it’ll be a good [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged eliezer alfonzo, links
By Chris Quick on December 19, 2008
I’m a pretty big fan of baseball uniforms. The variation, the re-designs, the failures and successes, each is interesting in it’s own way. Today, I wanted to post some of my favorite Giants uniforms. It’s a departure from the usual stat-work but I think we can all agree that the uniforms are a huge part [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged history, stirrups, uniforms
By Chris Quick on December 17, 2008
A quick post this morning on the defense from 2002-2008. Thanks to FanGraphs for making bUZR publicly available. I’ve really had a lot of fun looking through the data. I decided to use bUZR from the years 2002-2008 to find the best and worst defender on each Giants team in each year. My criteria was [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, barry bonds, bUZR, dave roberts, defense, deivi cruz, marquis grissom, omar vizquel, Pedro Feliz, randy winn, UZR
By Chris Quick on December 16, 2008
This past week the Houston Astros decided to non-tender Ty Wigginton rather than extend a contract to him and increase his salary through arbitration. The Chron article that I just linked to suggests that after arbitration, Wigginton would have been looking at a salary around $6M. He made $4.35M last year. Because the Astros did [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged defense, free agents, Third Base, ty wigginton
By Chris Quick on December 15, 2008
Quick Update: You may have seen this post sometime last week but I had to take it down after some of my numbers didn’t jive. I’d like to thank McCovey Chronicles for helping me correct some of the finer points of the data and getting it back online. We are going to look at Giants [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, brian wilson, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, pitching, sergio romo, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on December 12, 2008
You should probably like them a good bit more now: The Royals are closing in on a two-year deal to sign right-hander Kyle Farnsworth as a setup reliever, MLB.com has learned. Also, the Royals announced on Thursday they signed right-hander Doug Waechter as a middle reliever and left-hander Horacio Ramirez as a starter, both to [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged bob howry, bullpen, jeremy affeldt, Kyle Farnsworth, WAR
