By Chris Quick on September 2, 2010
There’s been no question that it’s been a tough month for Tim Lincecum. Over his past 8 starts the right-hander has put up a line of: 45 innings, 56 hits, 31 earned runs, 19 walks, and 43 strikeouts. Over that period of time, Lincecum’s BABIP was particularly elevated (.366 compared to .308 career) and hitters [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged andres torres, darren ford, losing streak, tim lincecum, xbh
By Chris Quick on September 1, 2010
The idea behind Chernoff Faces it that you can take data and map it to facial features in order to visually present differences in the numbers. The theory is that humans easily recognize facial features and can notice changes fairly quickly. There’s a lot of debate as to how useful Chernoff Faces are, but they’re [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged chernoff faces, mlb, teams, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on August 27, 2010
(Click to enlarge) Continuing with the heatmap theme, here is a graph using the same concept but with the more advanced statistics. All numbers are pulled from Fangraphs as of 8/28/10. I cheated and used Excel for this particular graph. Aubrey Huff: Still pretty darned good.
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged graphs, heatmap, labwork, offense
By Chris Quick on August 27, 2010
A little bit of visual labwork on this Friday. I’ve been playing around with R lately and I’ve been working on ‘heatmaps’. Each square has a number value and that value is ranked within each column by color — ie: all HR’s are compared against other HR totals for that column. White (higher value) -> [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged basic stats, graphs, heatmap, heatmaps, offense, Plots, R fiddlin'
By Chris Quick on August 22, 2010
Well, that’s how these things go sometimes. After going 20-8 and in the month of July, the Giants have struggled in August. The team’s current W/L record in August of 9-10 actually downplays just how bad things have looked in the last few series. Errors, poor pitching, and vintage bad hitting have all combined to [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged beatings, cody ross, ngghhh, waiver claim, wild card
By Chris Quick on August 16, 2010
From MLBTR: The Giants agreed to sign first-round pick Gary Brown for about $1.3MM, according to Yahoo’s Kendall Rogers (on Twitter). I didn’t say much about the Brown draft pick when it went down, but I’m not a huge fan of Brown’s hitting approach. In his last year at Cal State Fullerton Brown hit .438/.468/.695. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 1st round, draft, draft picks, gary brown, what is plate discipline
By Chris Quick on August 13, 2010
Oh, that Giants. Ken Rosethal tweets: Rival executive says Guillen to #SFGiants is “done,” confirming ESPNDeportes report. #Royals #MLB You can scroll down for my take on Guillen or read it right here. It hasn’t changed. * Jose Guillen, OF – I love the idea of picking up an outfielder and moving Huff back to [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged jose guillen, Trades, what
By Chris Quick on August 13, 2010
Your Wednesday graph comes a little late this week. This week’s graph is the seasonal percentage of Lincecum’s pitch-types — and their usage — and his whiff% on said pitch-types. I’ll note here that I didn’t include Tim’s slider into this discussion. It’s definitely the 4th pitch in his arsenal and something that he’s only [...]
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By Chris Quick on August 11, 2010
There’s nothing like the old switcheroo trade. Mike Fontenot started today as a Chicago Cub, but he’ll end it as a Giant. The Giants have traded A-ball outfield prospect, Evan Crawford, to the Cubs in exchange for 2B Mike Fontenot. Fontenot describes the weirdness of changing sidelines and changing teams before a game. “It’s been [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged evan crawford, mike fontenot, second base
By Chris Quick on August 8, 2010
Well, that sucked. 1. The offense, while chocked full of league averageness, is still going to be an issue most days. I know that’s going to come as a shock to you, but the offense is going to fluctuate between just enough to get the job done and terrible. Which one will show up today’s [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged andres torres, pablo sandoval, the offense, todd wellemeyer
