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By Chris Quick on May 2, 2010
Apologies to the blog for my recent absence. Work has been a meat grinder lately and I haven’t had any time to read, watch, or write about baseball. Bummer. But sometimes life gets in the way. This week should be better. I’ve got some things on the back burner, so keep coming back. A few [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, Mark DeRosa, starting rotation
By Chris Quick on April 20, 2010
Looking through the scope of small sample sizes. Things I’ve learned thus far in the season: ~ Tim Lincecum is still really, really, really good. In 20 innings pitched to start the season Tim has quickly put to rest any concerns over his ST performances. A brief check of some of his stats — 10.80 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, bullpen, SSS, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on August 25, 2009
There are few things in baseball that I like less than playing the Rockies in Coors Field. You hit 4 home runs, they hit 6. You score 10 runs, they score 15. You battle, claw, scratch, fight, and try your hardest to get back into a game, and you still lose. This game was truly [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, justin miller, merkin valdez, Rockies
By Chris Quick on July 24, 2009
And win a game. Barry Zito hurled 7 innings of 3-hit, 1-run baseball for the Giants while striking out 6 batters and walking 5. The bottom of the 4th inning was particularly weird when Zito did the following: Martin Prado walks. None out. Chipper Jones called out on strikes. One out. Yunel Escobar walks. Martin [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, madison bumgarner, starting pitching, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on May 29, 2009
I’m getting back online after a week hiatus from blogging. Sometimes real life takes over and the fun stuff (Giants baseball and blogging) has to take a back seat. But, have no fear, I’m back and you should be seeing updates with more regularity heading into the future. In today’s post, I wanted to look [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, brian wilson, bullpen, matt cain, ra/9, randy johnson, starting pitching, tim lincecum, tra
By Chris Quick on April 24, 2009
A couple of random thoughts before the Giants kick off their series with Arizona tonight. For those keeping track at home, the Giants are currently winless (0-6) on the road this year. With Tim Lincecum moving up for the start tonight, maybe the Giants can bring home the first road W this season. My first [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, starting pitching, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on April 22, 2009
The Giants haven’t scored many runs, but their pitching has looked quite good at times. Excluding last night’s 8-run outburst, since April 16th the Giants have scored a total of 7 runs — or 1.4 runs per game. The Giants have the 2nd lowest team wOBA in the baseball at the moment. Their score of [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, bengie molina, jeremy affeldt
By Chris Quick on March 20, 2009
*I hope I’m not scaring away potential readers. Because OGC asked nicely in the comments section of the Zito FX post, here’s two velocity plots for Zito’s 2008 season with the Giants. The first is his overall average fastball velocity — as identified by PFX — month-by-month. The second plot is his velocity by home [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged a reason for tiny hope?, barry zito, enough with the zito posts, pitchf/x, pitching analysis
By Chris Quick on March 20, 2009
All PFX data is from 2008. Unlike in the Randy Johnson FX post, I cleaned up some of the pitch-types for Zito this time around. The first plot is the familiar movement plot that you’ll often see with PFX data. The second plot is movement based on velocity. It’s very crude — I broke everything [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged analysis, barry zito, labwork, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on January 26, 2009
I like the sound of that.
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, good news, most expensive 4th starter EVER.
