I remember earlier in the year when Buster Posey was slumping. After 15 games into the season, Posey was hitting a meager .224/.328/.347, and looking back on it, that’s not really a terrible slash-line; he was still walking, the hits weren’t falling, but after 15 games — or a nanosecond in a full season of baseball — Posey clearly wasn’t… Read more →
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Andrew Baggarly: The Giants have agree to terms on a nine year contract with Buster Posey. (8 year extension). — Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) March 29, 2013 Baggarly then went on to tweet some of the finer details of Posey’s new nine-year deal. Starting in 2014, he’ll earn: 12.5M, 16.5M, 20M, and then 21.4M over the remaining five years. There’s also… Read more →
Earlier this morning, David Schoenfield, ESPN’s Sweetspot blog overlord, handed out grades on the Giants’ offseason. Dave looked at two areas — position players and pitchers — graded both, and then assigned a final overall grade. You can read the full post here, but the takeaway is this: Overall Grade – B+ If Lincecum bounces back from his subpar 2012,… Read more →
In baseball, player salaries are determined by a salary arbitration system. In short, players that meet a certain criteria — length of time on the active roster, generally more than three years less than six — are eligible for arbitration. Once a player becomes arbitration eligible, the player and team submit a yearly contract figure. If the player and team… Read more →
I honestly did not know that the BBWAA had a Twitter account. Posey can now add the MVP Award to his impressive collection of two World Series Rings. In my short lifetime of baseball fandom, Posey’s season this year goes down as one of the best seasons from a catcher in the past 30 years. WAR isn’t an infallible stat,… Read more →
I like to keep notes when I watch the Giants. I’ll make a note here about something interesting, I’ll make a note there. It’s a good way for me to keep track of the game and to recap things that I’d like to talk about later. I’ve got a whole bunch of notes scrawled down from tonight’s game and I’m… Read more →
I’m going to ask you to remember way back in the middle of August and September. Way back to when Ryan Vogelsong was struggling. Before August 13, Vogelsong’s league leading ERA sat at 2.27. Seven games later, Vogelsong’s ERA sat at 3.65. Panic ensued among the fan base. Was Vogelsong finished? He was giving up a jillion hits per start…. Read more →
Whew. And just like that, the Giants are in the NLCS. Most of what you’ll read about today’s game will focus on Buster Posey’s grand slam in the fifth inning. And, to be honest, it was a huge hit for the Giants, pushing the lead to 6-0, and reminding us that Buster Posey is the truth and the light. Hitting… Read more →
1. The advanced metrics love him: Posey ranks 5th in all of baseball in fWAR (7.1), wRC+ (159), and wOBA (.403). It’s easy to turn this into a numbers humpfest – which let me tell you, I love a good numbers humpfest – but what Posey has done this year – is doing – is simply amazing/great/stupendous/other adjectives. 2. He’s… Read more →