I’m getting back online after a week hiatus from blogging. Sometimes real life takes over and the fun stuff (Giants baseball and blogging) has to take a back seat. But, have no fear, I’m back and you should be seeing updates with more regularity heading into the future. In today’s post, I wanted to look at Giants pitching in terms… Read more →
Yesterday an interesting article came online via the Mercury News and Giants beat writer, Andrew Baggarly. The article centered around Noah Lowry and his latest health issue. The once changeup-tossing lefty went under the knife yesterday for yet another surgery. Lowry was battling pain in his shoulder and neck, and the surgery (which will remove a rib on his left… Read more →
Tim Lincecum’s fastball velocity plot 2007-2009. Courtesy of FanGraphs. Also, note that FanGraph’s PFX velocity plot includes both home and away starts. When plotting velocity, you really only want to look at home starts because it will remove some of the stadium bias that often pops up in PFX data — ie: some stadiums read slower than others or some… Read more →
This is what a .830 WPA hit looks like. Suck it, Joe Beimel. — UPDATE: Also, I forgot to mention this, but the Giants have made another roster move. The Giants have sent down Osiris Matos and called up Pat Misch. “Really, the way we are right now, we need a fresh arm,” Bochy said. “We have been using [Justin]… Read more →
With the 11-7 win against the Washington Nationals last night, Randy Johnson moved one more win closer to the fabled 300 win plateu. Johnson continued his good start, bad start, good start routine with 5 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, and 9 SO. It wasn’t the worst start in the world but it wasn’t great either…. Read more →
I wanted to post this before I forgot about it. Here is a plot from Pablo Sandoval’s 7th inning at-bat against the Rockies yesterday. He was facing Matt Belisle (with the bases loaded) and after fouling the first pitch off and swinging and missing at the next, he fouled off 7 straight pitches, took a ball, fouled off another, and… Read more →
We’ve barely entered the month of May for Giants baseball and I’m finding that more and more my gaze is turning towards minor league boxscores. I’m still enjoying the MLB team with Pablo Sandoval, Tim Lincecum, (good) Randy Johnson, and some others but with the Dodgers hot start and the Giants offense still looking like something from the 1910′s, it’s… Read more →
Prepare for a bold statement: The Giants’ offense isn’t very good. I hope you were sitting down but it’s true, the Giants offense has done more sputtering this season than anything else. A graph and then a bunch of words. This basic graph shows how many runs the Giants have scored thus far in their first 25 games. On the… Read more →
In yesterday’s game, a wet and rain-soaked affair, the Giants were shut down by a complete game Jason Marquis start. Marquis has never been a dominant starter, but over the past few years he’s been above replacement level and occasionally a useful rotation piece. Since 2004 he’s posted win values of: 1.9, 0.7, -0.6, 1.7, and 1.6 wins. He’ll give… Read more →