I think it was around 2005, or so, when I started to get back into Giants baseball. As a younger person growing up, I always loved baseball. I especially loved the statistics, the numbers, the never ending columns of data that baseball seemed to create. I can recall spending countless wasted hours on games like Sierra’s Front Page Sports Baseball… Read more →
This year marks the third year that we’ve put together a site prospect ranking. (You can find the previous rankings here: 2011 – 2012.) The way it works is that we each come up with a ranking, share lists, and then hash out a final ranking. Chris Martinez and I composed this year’s list. Today’s ranking focuses on the #15… Read more →
After the World Series, the Giants’ game-plan for 2013 could essentially be boiled down to: bring back key free agent players (Scutaro and Pagan), agree to a one-year deal with Hunter Pence, and sign bullpen pitcher, Santiago Casilla, to a three-year, $15M deal. “Keeping the band together” is often bandied about as a common pitfall of championship teams, and despite… Read more →
Jon Heyman’s twitter: Personally, I’m kind of glad the Giants didn’t go the multi-year route with Pence. He’s coming off a pretty disappointing half-season with the Giants — as a Giant he batted .219/.287/.384 — and while his defense is adequate in RF, he’s certainly not a plus-defender there. And he’ll turn 30 this April. I’m not sure I want… Read more →
(After a brief break from posting, I’m back and with more Sergio Romo slider porn.) One of my favorite pastimes is talking about Sergio Romo. I’m constantly amazed by the slider; the command; the everything. He’s easily one of my favorite Giants and when I sat down today to run though some numbers, I was a little surprised at what… Read more →
Hello, baseball. I see you over there. Hiding behind the clothes dryer. Making little whooping noises. The Giants have recently — over the past month or so — made a bunch of little itty-bitty moves that I’ve yet to comment on. This being the slowest time of the year for baseball news, I figured that I would round up a… Read more →
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 →
The good news — when Casilla is pitching well, he looks like a dominant reliever, throwing mid-90 MPH heat with filthy breaking stuff. GIF example of said filthy breaking stuff. That’s from April 26th this past season when Casilla struck out the side in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. In this particular game, Casilla was burying 95-MPH two-seam fastballs… 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 →