When Giants fans see Cody Ross, they see a bald, smiling saint that crushes home runs off of Roy Halladay. Luckily, though, not all Giants fans are created equal. You see, about half of today’s Giants fans were yesterday’s casual baseball fan – or maybe last August’s casual baseball fan. Certainly, half is probably an exaggeration, but you get the… Read more →
February is a pretty useless month, sports-wise. One of its few highlights is the annual release of PECOTA , Baseball Prospectus’s projection system. A lot of projection systems just tell you that a player’s future will look like his past, with some age adjustment and regression toward league average thrown in there. While PECOTA has plenty of that thrown in… Read more →
In mid-December, I wrote a quick blurb on the Giants’ age for the upcoming season among their position players, entitled ‘Are the Giants Geezers Again?‘. I decided to dig a little deeper to see how Sabean has done during his tenure with the Giants by age group and WAR. What I’ve done is to take every player that’s accrued at… Read more →
Jon Morosi of Fox Sports is reporting that the Giants have re-signed Aubrey Huff to a 2-year, $22M deal with an option for 2013. Huff receives $10 million in each of the next two seasons under the deal, and the Giants have a $10 million club option for 2013 with a $2 million buyout. With the new deal, Huff receives… Read more →
For today’s post I’ve taken free agents at the positions in which the Giants need help — 1B/SS/OF — and ranked them by a simple 5/4/3 weighted Wins Above Replacement. Or, in other words, we’ll give look at the mean WARs for certain players, but we’ll give more weight to their more recent performances than past performances. I’m going on… Read more →
Egads. The common phrase used to describe the Giants particular style of play this year has been ‘torture’. After tonight’s 3-2 win, the phrase is entirely appropriate. Quick Thoughts: Jonathan Sanchez pitched maybe the game of his life — 7.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 SO. The slider was filthy and the fastball was difficult… Read more →
Way back before this season started, I did my annual wins above replacement (WAR) projection post for the 2010 team. I came away with a projected 83-84 wins for the 2010 Giants. Not a bad projection at all, and it’s possible that if we’re talking about true talent this team might be closer to the mid-80′s, but the Giants excelled… Read more →
One of the fun things about keeping a blog is that it allows you to look back and check in on your feelings from days, months, and years past. One of the most surprising topics this year when it comes to the Giants has been Aubrey Huff’s blistering start. Back in January when the Giants signed Huff, I summed up… Read more →
(H/T to rotorueter of McC for this bit of information) According to a tweet from MASN’s Ben Gosseling, the Nats have released Elijah Dukes and, shockingly, it has nothing to with off-the-field issues. Dukes was expected to start the season as the right fielder for the D.C. club but now he’ll look for a new team. Dukes’ story is pretty… Read more →
So, your favorite team just signed Aubrey Huff for 1-year, $3M to play first base. What happens next? #diamondbacks deal with adam laroche will pay him between $4 mil and $5 mil, sources tell si.com. good job by dejan getting scoop on AZ. Oh, right. A division rival will sign a much better player to a better deal. Reports surfaced… Read more →