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By Chris Quick on July 11, 2010
Hi Blog, I just got back watching a couple of Giants games in the District. We were in D.C. for the Saturday and Sunday games and it marked the first time that I’ve seen baseball in D.C. — and in the new Nats’ stadium. A few quick observations from my vantage point and a few [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, buster posey, frank howard, photos, travelogue, washington d.c.
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 May 26, 2010
Below you’ll see this week’s Wednesday Graph — a new feature I’m going to be doing here on BCB. Every Wednesday I’ll be posting a Giants-related graph. Please, hold back your excitement. This week’s graph focuses on Aaron Rowand has his BB% and K% rates. (Last data pulled from 5/23/10. BB% = BB/PA, K% = [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on April 13, 2010
I’m a big fan of Dave Allen and his work with PitchF/X. Dave has put out some really cool — and informative — graphs by using PFX data. His post today on FanGraphs and Jason Heyward’s struggles against breaking pitches down in the zone got me thinking — how is Aaron Rowand looking so far [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, plate approach, sliders
By Chris Quick on March 9, 2010
A quick graph post tonight before I turn in. I’m trying to come up with a graph that shows the ups and downs of a player’s progress over the course of a season. I know that the praiseworthy FanGraphs has been doing similar graphs for awhile, but I wanted to try my hand at my [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, graphs, hitting, pablo sandoval
By Chris Quick on February 18, 2010
Hooray, baseball is back. Well, sorta back. Here’s my annual don’t-worry-too-much-about-Spring-Training post. Yesterday Giants pitchers and catchers (and a few position players, too) found their way down to Arizona for the start of Spring Training. Today is first the official day when pitchers and catchers start working out. On February 23rd the rest of the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 5th starter, aaron rowand, freddy sanchez, madison bumgarner, spring training, todd wellemeyer
By Chris Quick on February 7, 2010
It’s time for my annual Giants WAR projection post. You can find the link to the 2009 projection, here. It explains a few things in general and it’s not a bad place to start if you’ve never seen a WAR projection. But, the basics are that: a team totally devised of ‘replacement level talent’ — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, aaron rowand, hitting, john bowker, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, pitching, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on October 14, 2009
How many times this past season did Aaron Rowand swing at a slider and miss completely? Thanks to the magic (and nerdery) of PitchF/X we can answer that question. In 2009, Rowand swung at, and missed, the slider 63 separate times. Seems more than that, doesn’t it? For most of the season, the slider seemed [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, pitchf/x, Plots, sliders
By Chris Quick on August 2, 2009
Tim Lincecum pitched another extraordinary game last night against the Phillies. Against a packed lineup that seems to have a solid hitter at each position in the batting order, Lincecum tossed 8 innings of shutout baseball. He struck out 8 hitters, walked 1, and wiggled out of a few jams in the mid-innings of the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, joe martinez, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on June 19, 2009
It’s Friday. The Giants are playing tonight. I’m fully caffeinated. The weekend is almost here. Here’s some random Giants-related thoughts: Did you know that Pablo Sandoval has the 16th highest wOBA in the National League right now? His wOBA of .386 ranks him ahead of such players like Ryan Zimmerman, Matt Kemp, Carlos Lee, and [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, justin miller, pablo sandoval
