When it comes to evaluating prospects or looking at roster make-up, I’ve always been a little biased against relievers. It’s not that I think all relievers are replaceable, but in the short-term of baseball history, what teams have paid for and what they’ve gotten has been grossly out of proportion when it comes to relief [...]
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Giants Agree With Wilson; Add Two Pitchers
Mark one more case off the arbitration list — the Giants have agreed to a 1-year deal worth $4,437,500 with closer Brian Wilson. The near $4.5M that Wilson agreed to is the midpoint between the Giants offer of $4M and the $4,875,000 that Wilson filed for. Wilson’s salary for 2010 represents a $4M raise over [...]
Sunday Jumble
In today’s post, I’m catching up to a few random thoughts that I’ve had over the past week, but haven’t had the time to get to.
Brad Penny’s Velocity
Before the Giants signed Brad Penny, one of the positive indicators that he had going for him was that his velocity was still regularly in the mid-90’s. Penny [...]
Congrats, Randy.
In a rain-soaked affair, Randy Johnson defeated the Nationals last night to secure his 300th win. The Giants managed to score 5 runs for Johnson — the majority of them came in the 9th after he left the game — and thanks to some tight-rope bullpen work from Brian Wilson, the night ended in victory.
Johnson’s [...]
The Anatomy of a Blown Save
Not a very pretty game for the Giants. With the team leading 4-1 and heading into the bottom of the 9th inning, Brian Wilson just couldn’t close the game out. Even though he didn’t walk anyone, you can see from the pitch location graph above that he wasn’t pounding the zone either. The start of [...]
WAR: ‘09 NL West Pitching Projections (Updated)
(Warning: Long post)
(Edit: I’ve updated my data a little, instead of using my Giants projections from my 2009 Team WAR post, I decided to just run CHONE across the board for every team. Overall, this didn’t really change the rankings but I thought it would be fairer to do it this way.)
Today we’ll be examining [...]