A quick graph. I’m trying something new — let me know if it’s helpful or not. What you’re looking at is Tim Lincecum’s fastball velocity by inning. The game data is from his first start — and victory — of the year against the Houston Astros. Each red dashed-line indicates the end of an inning. So, you’ve got 7 dashed-lines… Read more →
I’ll be posting some Lincecum thoughts later today but I wanted to give a quick update on Bay City Ball. You’ll notice a new nav-bar at the top of this website. I’ve been asked by Rob Neyer of ESPN to join the ‘SweetSpot Network’ — a collection of baseball bloggers covering, eventually, every team in baseball. You can read Rob’s… Read more →
The 2009 Giants probably surprised a few people when they finished the year at 88 wins vs. 74 loses. Their winning percentage of .543 marked the first time since 2004 that the Giants posted a better than .500 winning percentage. The years from 2005-2008 were dark times. Over that span, the Giants posted winning percentages of .463, .472, .438, and… Read more →
I rarely respond, via the blog, to articles posted online. But I couldn’t let this one slide. Henry Schulman, Giants beat-writer and seemingly all around nice guy, let’s all of us SABR nerds have it in his latest post on the topic of Fred Lewis and sabermetrics. Hank sets up his post with the following blurb: This is going to… Read more →