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For a more detailed post on WAR, check out Tom Tango’s excellent blog here. He runs through the idea of Wins Above Replacement and lays out some of the math behind the concept. Big thanks to Colin Wyers for his WAR spreadsheet, making this whole process much, much easier.
Things to Remember:
~ Defense is [...]

The Giants’ season is over.
Whew.
I think we’ll all look back at the ‘08 Giants as a team in transition. We were bad, but we weren’t that bad. Well, not 100-loss-bad like many of us expected. The Giants finished the year in 4th place in the National League West with a record of 72-90. That’s not [...]

Balloons! Cotton Candy! JT Snow?
From the Chronicle:
The team signed Snow to a one-day contract so he can wear No. 6 a final time and retire as a Giant, providing the closure that eluded him as his career ended quietly with Boston in 2006. Snow hesitated before signing the contract at a news conference Wednesday, saying, [...]

Tim Lincecum has had a wonderful season and last nights blip doesn’t change that. His W/L and ERA record might look a little different after his loss to the Rockies, but Lincecum has thrown better this year than anyone could have ever dreamed . Mixing a unique delivery with an arsenal of power pitches that [...]

I’ve been a fan of Sergio Romo since his breakout season in the California League last year. His numbers from that year are, as the kids say: video game numbers. He struck out 104 hitters in 65.2 innings pitched. It was an impressive season. But, Romo never got much pub from prospect hounds because his [...]

Sometimes I think the Giants could be the perfect Greek tragedy. The performance would be full of strikeouts, bad hitting, and a comedy of errors and at the end of the night we would learn a very important life lesson; don’t start defensive liabilities in the outfield.
Last night was exceptionally tragic. Lincecum was throwing well [...]

“You big dummy!”
Hot off the Baggs Press:
The Giants held a summit and decided Tim Lincecum will make two more starts instead of one after tonight’s outing against Arizona’s Randy Johnson.

That plan wouldn’t change even if Lincecum fails to win No. 18 tonight, which would end any chance of being the Giants’ first 20-game winner since [...]

From big daddy Baggs:
I don’t recall exactly when it happened, but a Giants hitter fouled a ball into the dugout in the early part of the game. It took a bounce off the concrete and hit Rowand between his temple and his left eye.

“I was stretching and was turned to the side, so I never [...]

Looking at Lincecum’s 138-pitch CG through the scope of PFX data.

No new content today because I’m in the middle of finishing a PITCHf/x analysis of Tim Lincecum’s 138-pitch complete game on Saturday against the Padres.
Sneak peak early analysis: Dem’s alotta pitches he threw
Any how, stay tuned for the PFX article, it might go up tonight or sometime by early-ish tomorrow. I probably would have had [...]