All stats are from the period between December 23 and January 1. Happy New Year, all! Thanks for sticking with us for another year. I delayed the final major Winter Leagues Digest past the new year because the final day of the Puerto Rican and Venezuelan leagues landed on Monday plus I figured you’d all have something better to do… Read more →
All stats are from the period between December 17 to 22. It’s the final weeks of the winter leagues. The Dominican League ended Saturday, so all the notes from the DR will have the players’ final statistical lines. The Venezuelan and Puerto Rican leagues end December 30. Here is the final Dominican Leagues report for 2012. Name Position League Team… Read more →
All stats are from the period between December 9 and 16. The Giants signed a few minor league free agents in the last month or so and a few of them have turned up in the winter leagues. Also, I found Gregor Blanco playing in the Venezuelan league so he’s been added to the updates. Let’s get started with the… Read more →
Playoff baseball is really awesome until it doesn’t go your way. Feel free to steal that one. After the first loss of the NLDS, I could honestly shrug my shoulders and say, “Welp. That’s baseball.” Because the loss that ensued after Game One was an easy loss to digest. You take away a hanging Cain curveball and maybe add a… Read more →
Hooray, playoff baseball is here! The Giants are set to play Game One of the NLDS tomorrow night against the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The only thing I know about the Reds is that 1) Cincinnati is impossible to spell right and 2) Mr. Red is a cheap, horrible, freakishly scary knockoff of Mr. Met. (Oh good lord.) Thankfully for you,… Read more →
Earlier today, ESPN turned over the keys to the SweetSpot blog to me. My topic: Giants starters seem to throw a lot of nonfastballs to start hitters off. In short: I found that, after running some numbers, three of the top 10 starting pitchers in baseball that start batters off with nonfastballs were Giants starters — Cain, Vogelsong, and Bumgarner… Read more →
Entering today, the Giants are 64-54, one-half game out of first place in the NL West and trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers. Losing Melky Cabrera, according to Dan Syzmborski, will most likely cost the Giants around one win in the standings. Friend of the blog, and fellow Giants fan, Wendy Thurm, recently posted a very thorough break-down on the Giants… Read more →
Tweet Small sample size. It’s the phrase that’s often beaten to death in the statistical community. This being a statistical-leaning blog, I thought it would be a good idea to briefly touch on the topic. “SSS,” in its simplest form, merely means that we need more data before we can draw a conclusion. How much data you need can vary… Read more →
Share the links, share the love. McCovey Chronicles – Matt Cain Throws The First Perfect Game In Giants History The first perfect game in Giants history. One-hundred-and-twenty-nine-plus seasons and 19,781 games without a perfect game. It had to be Matt Cain. He could have retired to fight crime yesterday, and he still would have been one of the most legendary… Read more →
We’re back with the breakdown of the Giants picks from Rounds 11-20 of the 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft. This list combines the rest of Day 2 and the first rounds from Day 3. Rounds 21-30 are coming at you on Saturday and we wrap it up with rounds 31-40 on Sunday. Here’s the table for the picks covered… Read more →