Giants Baseball With a Side of STATS
Warning: This post turned out much longer than I expected.
Playing around with BB-Ref’s great Play Index Tool (PIT) this morning got me thinking about Barry Bonds and his last season in 2007 where he hit: .276/.480/.565 at 42-years-old. Yes, that’s a four-eighty OBP.
/sigh
Bond’s last season in the majors was memorable. He broke the home run [...]
Before this season started, I quipped the following when the Giants signed Juan Uribe:
If Juan Uribe makes the team, speculation is that he’ll earn about $1M for his services. That contract is paying him like he’s a .25 WAR player, which is about right. I don’t like Juan Uribe as a player but I don’t [...]
Two games into a four game series, the Giants have already won two against the St. Louis Pujolses. I mean the Cardinals. Calling them the St. Louis Pujolses isn’t meant to be an insult, but being a Cardinals fan and getting to watch Albert Pujols for an entire season has got to be a lot [...]
After working on the Fred Lewis post some, I got to thinking about how the Giants ranked over the last 10 years as a team in BB%. BB% is simply BB/PA or how many times per plate appearance a batter draws a walk. League average for hitters has tended to be between 8-9% in recent [...]
I’m borrowing (stealing) an idea from my fellow blogmate Sky Kalkman over at Beyond the Boxscore. Attached below is a line graph showing the career production, in terms of WAR, for Barry Bonds, Wilie Mays, and Willie McCovey.
(Historical WAR numbers gleaned from BaseballProjection.com)
Note: Since the win values only go back to 1955, Willie Mays is [...]
A quick post today on Giants baserunning from 2007-2008 using Baseball Prospectus’s Baserunning Report tool. We’ll be using EqBRR or Equivalent Base Running runs. It’s the sum of five different baserunning skills translated into runs.
Here’s BP’s definition:
Equivalent Base Running Runs. Measures the number of runs contributed by a player’s advancement on the bases, above what [...]
You’ll often hear a baseball player referred to as a “Three True Outcomes” hitter. Players like Rob Deer, Adam Dunn, and Russell Branyan are a few classic examples of TTO hitters. Each one of these players are either going to strike out, walk, or hit a home run in the majority of their at-bats. Thus, [...]
A quick post this morning on the defense from 2002-2008. Thanks to FanGraphs for making bUZR publicly available. I’ve really had a lot of fun looking through the data.
I decided to use bUZR from the years 2002-2008 to find the best and worst defender on each Giants team in each year. My criteria was fielders [...]
Not much to say, other than Barry Bonds has been indicted today on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. I might write more on it later but to be honest, I’ve been watching way too much ESPN today and I already feel burnt out on the topic. Regardless of my opinion of Barry, I [...]
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