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By Chris Quick on May 16, 2010
Here’s a graph for the bases-loaded 9th inning showdown between Brian Wilson and Kaz Matsui. The graph represents each pitch in the at-bat and the result: foul, strike, ball, and in-play. It took Wilson 15 pitches to eventually put Matsui away on a flyball to LF Andres Torres. From the graph, you can that from [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged brian wilson, Drama, Kaz Matsui, Saves
By Chris Quick on May 4, 2010
Outside of on-field performance, there’s a few things that will always endear me to a pitcher. Stirrups, check. Weird facial hair, check. Funky pitching motions, double-check. As a fan of the Giants and their farm system, sometime around 2007 Sergio Romo caught my eye when he completely devastated the California League. If you ever read [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged brian wilson, graphs, pitchf/x, Plots, sergio romo, slider
By Chris Quick on February 27, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged brad lidge, brian wilson, bruce bochy, luis perdomo, managers, relievers
By Chris Quick on February 2, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, brian wilson, byung-hyun kim, horacio ramirez
By Chris Quick on September 6, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brad penny, brian wilson, dan runzler
By Chris Quick on June 5, 2009
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. [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged 300, 300 win, brian wilson, randy johnson
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 26, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brian wilson, fail
By Chris Quick on February 24, 2009
(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 [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, brian wilson, bullpen, Diamondbacks, dodgers, NL West, Padres, projections, Rockies
By Chris Quick on January 12, 2009
I’ve been playing around with EditGrid this morning and I made a few graphs relating to the 2009 Giants WAR projections. There really isn’t any new information presented in these graphs, but they might help some to see just where the wins are actually coming from. I like this pie chart because it shows — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, Edgar Renteria, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, projections, randy johnson, randy winn, tim lincecum, wins above replacement
