Here’s your latest update on tracking the ‘best shapes’ for the 2011 Giants team. If you missed the original post, you can find it here. The goal, in a nutshell, is this: We’re keeping track of all players on the Giants that are in the ‘best shape’ of their career in some way. That includes fitness regiments, learning a new… Read more →
It’s become common spring baseball jargon to say that Player X is ‘in the best shape of his life’, but how often does it turn out to be true? And how often does it really improve that player’s performance in the upcoming season? I thought it would be a fun and interesting exercise to track all of the Giants’ players… Read more →
My god what an ugly loss that was. Did the corpse of Darin Erstad really hit a 3-run home run to tie the game? Erstad hasn’t been a good hitter in almost 7 years now and he knocks a 3-run shot to knot the game? The Fangraph for this game was particularly horrific. Click with caution. Erstad’s OPS+ from 2001-2007… Read more →