By Chris Quick on November 15, 2009
Hi. It’s me, the offense from last season. All hitters on the Giants with at least 100 plate appearances. The vertical dashed-line indicates a league average .330 wOBA hitter. It’s still not a pretty sight to look at/think about. I’m going to be really ticked when the Giants eventually release Fred Lewis. Other free thoughts, [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, offense
By Chris Quick on October 5, 2009
Sitting in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains this weekend a fleeting thought struck me. I wonder how the Giants are doing right now? It was a brief, inconsequential thought about the team as they played their last few days of regular season baseball. Over the past weekend I celebrated my first wedding anniversary with [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 1954 Giants, 2009 team, catchers, pitchers, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on July 22, 2009
This probably isn’t the way the Giants imagined they would start their 2nd half of baseball. After winning 49 games in the 1st half of the season, the Giants have started the post-All-Star break with a record of 1-4. The problems are still the same: the offense stinks. In the first 5 combined games since [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, batting runs, offense
By Chris Quick on April 3, 2009
This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Round up some of my favorite Giants bloggers and discuss a few questions that I think will be important to the team this season. The Giants are still in a period of transition and this season should be exciting on a few different levels. Each blogger [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, answers, Brian Sabean, bruce bochy, defense, offense, questions
By Chris Quick on February 25, 2009
A quick post today furthering some of the projections that we looked at yesterday. We’ll be looking at the distribution of wins above replacement for each team’s starting rotation and bullpen. San Francisco Giants The Giants are getting huge chunks of production from Lincecum, Cain, and Johnson. Sanchez isn’t too shabby either, he’s going to [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, CHONE, Diamondbacks, dodgers, Padres, pitching projection, Rockies, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on February 24, 2009
(Warning: Long post) (Edit: I’ve updated my data a little, instead of using my Giants projections from my 2009 Team WAR post, I decided to just run CHONE across the board for every team. Overall, this didn’t really change the rankings but I thought it would be fairer to do it this way.) Today we’ll [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, brian wilson, bullpen, Diamondbacks, dodgers, NL West, Padres, projections, Rockies
By Chris Quick on February 19, 2009
Yesterday we talked a little bit about Edger Renteria. Mostly in the context of some batted ball data over the last three years. But, today, we’ll be using one of my player value graphs to examine Renteria from 2002-08. The following graph examines both offense and defense to determine the overall value of a player. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, Edgar Renteria, player value graphs, Plots, shortstop
By Chris Quick on February 18, 2009
In 2008, despite Omar Vizquel’s fantastic defensive play at shortstop, the position was a major challenge for the Giants. Vizquel started the year late because of a knee surgery and the Giants rotated in several infielders to play the position. Brian Bocock, Ivan Ochoa, and Emmanuel Burriss all spent time at short but none of [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, Edgar Renteria, shortsthop
By Chris Quick on February 2, 2009
It’s no news to any observer that this year’s free agent market is down for players not named C.C. Sabathia or Mark Teixeira. A perfect example is Bobby Abreu. In 2008, Abreu hit: .296/.371/.471 with 20 HRs and 39 2Bs for the New York Yankees. Abreu wasn’t the same hitter he was with the Phillies [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, bobby abreu, CHONE, fred lewis, left field, manny ramirez
By Chris Quick on January 12, 2009
I’ve been playing around with EditGrid this morning and I made a few graphs relating to the 2009 Giants WAR projections. There really isn’t any new information presented in these graphs, but they might help some to see just where the wins are actually coming from. I like this pie chart because it shows — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, Edgar Renteria, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, projections, randy johnson, randy winn, tim lincecum, wins above replacement
