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 4, 2010
Sanchez has been solid on defense this year, but the Giants are going to need a little more oomph out of his bat. His current .302 wOBA — using the original Tango formula and not the FanGraphs’ version — leaves much to be desired. In our graph I’ve also included the league average for wOBA. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged freddy sanchez, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on July 29, 2010
*From 1901-2010 I’m in love with the new Baseball-Reference WAR data. WAR, or Wins Above Replacement, is the uber-stat that attempts to encompass the total value of what makes a player, erm, valuable. With the development of FanGraphs and other saber-slanted websites, WAR has become a pretty well known statistic. If you’re new to the [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged bobby bonds, bobby murcer, defense, Dick Dietz, graphs, Plots, total zone
By Chris Quick on July 14, 2010
Click for mega-size In 2009, Pablo Sandoval emerged as an offensive force for the Giants. For a team that sorely lacked any kind of hitter that you could qualify as ‘good’ or ‘non-terrible’ Sandoval’s wOBA in ’09 of .396 was one of the best things about the year. He hit for power, walked at a [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged pablo sandoval, power, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on June 27, 2010
Your ‘Wednesday Graph’ is coming early this week. I decided to make a gigantic team plate approach graph — using the 9 players on the team with the most plate appearances. Red circles are swings, green circles are non-swings. (Click to view the extra-large version. Large version is a little clearer.) Players are listed in [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, pablo sandoval, plate approach, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on June 23, 2010
Andres Torres, career minor league journeyman reborn in 2010, has been a major part of the Giants offense — and defense — this season. One of the reasons that Torres has been so valuable to the G’s this year has been his plate approach. Torres has an excellent BB% of 13.9% at the moment — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged andres torres, PFX, Plots
By Chris Quick on June 7, 2010
As Pablo Sandoval continues to struggle this season — currently hitting a wOBA of .326 — it seems that everyone is in search for an answer. Two major things stick out to me: (1) His power, as determined by ISO — which remember, league average is around .150 — has plummeted. Pablo’s 2010 ISO of [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged labwork, pablo sandoval, pitchf/x, Plots
