Sometimes when I watch Ryan Vogelsong pitch, I’m reminded of this video. I imagine that Ryan Vogelsong is wearing a kilt in some wooded area, surrounded by major league hitters, and he’s running around throwing ping-pong balls, chanting “two-seamer, two-seamer, two-seamer, changeup at your knees, two-seamer.” Also, Matt Holliday has a foam sword and he’s crying. Tonight, the Giants scored… Read more →
Tweet (I hate trade posts. Most of them fall into Bleacher Report-styled musings, so I’m sorry for doing this to you.) The Giants find themselves at 53-42 and 1.5 games up in the National League West. The team, coming off a pretty successful road trip, has gone 7-3 in their last 10 games and looks to continue to build upon… Read more →
Everything is Brandon Belt. The trees, the air, your cat, your new TV, your video game console … they’re all Brandon Belt. I thought about starting this post by just writing Brandon Belt? Brandon Belt. Brandon Belt? Brandon Belt! I recently joked on Twitter that Brandon Belt might be the most interesting Giant I can recall in recent memory. For… Read more →
Tweet The Giants ended their first half with a resounding thud. The team, riding high after a dominating sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers, performed less than admirably against, at the moment, contending teams in the National League. The Giants split a series against the Reds, were swept by a rising Washington ballclub, and were lucky to limp out of Pittsburgh… Read more →
I’ll be honest, I can’t stop talking about Brandon Belt. Two graphs this morning for your Sunday enjoyment. The first is a graph of Brandon Belt’s batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage by game and the second is a graph of Belt’s strikeout and walk percentages by game. There’s a lot of impressive things going on in each graph,… Read more →
As of late, the Giants’ lineup looks suprisngly … competent? Here’s the current lineup sorted by adjusted on-base plus slugging (OPS+): Rk Pos PA AB OPS+ 1 LF Melky Cabrera 289 269 165 2 3B Pablo Sandoval 141 129 136 3 C Buster Posey 244 217 131 4 1B Brandon Belt 169 138 130 5 CF Angel Pagan 279 258… Read more →
This will be your weekly Brandon Belt post. Also, I’m writing under the influence of cold medicine, so this could be interesting. Well, well, would you look at that? It’s a mistake to read too much into small samples (and a three game series against the Astros is definitely in the realm of SSS), but I’m going to push that… Read more →
(This will be your mandatory Brandon Belt post for the week.) Have you heard about Brandon Belt’s hitting mechanics? It’s all the kids can talk about these days. No, really. This being the Internet, your opinion of Belt’s mechanics probably ranges from “he’s awful” to “I think he’s probably acceptable.” Sometime, a few years back, it seemed that a lot… Read more →
I’ve seen this game a few times. Nay, I’ve seen this game a few hundred times. Matt Cain pitches great and yet somehow comes away without the “W”. If you went to Matt Cain University, and you took the class “Matt Cain 101,” today’s game would probably be on your syllabus for week two. This wasn’t your standard “Cain pitches… Read more →
If you’re a pessimist you’ll probably say … Tim Lincecum didn’t look at all that great. In Lincecum’s first start of the year he struck out seven batters while walking just one over 5.1 innings. Lincecum, at times, looked a little rusty, as his command wasn’t exceptionally sharp for most of the night. According to Brooks Baseball Lincecum’s velocity topped… Read more →