Giants Baseball With a Side of STATS
I don’t think I like this.
Off-the-cuff-thoughts:
I’m not sure how much the 2010 team has improved. Sanchez will be better than the group of second basemen that the Giants ran out in 2009, but he’s an injury risk in a playergroup that’s tended to age poorly.
Mark DeRosa in LF nets the Giants zero wins over playing [...]
There’s not much left for Buster Posey to prove in the minor leagues. In 2009, the young catcher put up a .433 wOBA in San Jose in 80 games, was promoted to Fresno, and put up a .390 wOBA in 35 games. If a slash-line is more your thing, Buster has a career .327/.421/.538 minor [...]
I’m not even going to mention the 10-3 loss last night to the Dodgers. It’s salt in an open wound. Sand in your eye. With the Giants’ odds of winning the Wild Card dwindling all the way down to a 2.7% chance, it seems rather silly to worry about wins and losses right now. It [...]
Tim Lincecum is good. It’s almost like he should get some sort of award. Something like: “Award for Guy Who Throws Good” or something. Nah, it’ll never happen. Watching Lincecum throw another CG against the A’s last night was just what the doctor ordered after watching Sanchez struggle against a largely punchless hitting A’s team.
Some [...]
Prepare for a bold statement: The Giants’ offense isn’t very good.
I hope you were sitting down but it’s true, the Giants offense has done more sputtering this season than anything else. A graph and then a bunch of words.
This basic graph shows how many runs the Giants have scored thus far in their first 25 [...]
In yesterday’s game, a wet and rain-soaked affair, the Giants were shut down by a complete game Jason Marquis start. Marquis has never been a dominant starter, but over the past few years he’s been above replacement level and occasionally a useful rotation piece. Since 2004 he’s posted win values of: 1.9, 0.7, -0.6, 1.7, [...]
Two posts in one day, it’s your lucky day. A brief graph:
(Catchers from 1956-2008 ranked by age and OPS+ scores with a limit of at least 350 PAs per season and at least 50% of their games behind the plate. Click the graph to enlarge to full-size)
Bengie Molina will be 34-years-old (in baseball age, but [...]
In yesterday’s post we had a little fun with the TTO (Three True Outcomes) statistic. TTO% measures the chances a hitters AB will end in a home run, strikeout, or walk. Or, to put it another way, it celebrates hitters who do not put the ball in play.
In today’s 2nd half post on TTO, we’ll [...]