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By Chris Quick on May 23, 2010
The Giants drafted Brandon Crawford out of the 2008 First Year Player Draft from UCLA. The talented college shortstop was projected as a first round talent but he fell to the 4th round when he struggled in his final college year. The book on Crawford was as follows: terrific defender at SS but he swings-and-misses [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2011 team, brandon crawford, defense, Edgar Renteria, J.J. Hardy, juan uribe, shortstop, WAR
By Chris Quick on April 21, 2010
Question: Are the Giants the only team in baseball that can lose a game in which their starter goes 7 innings, strikes out 10 batters, and only allows 1 hit — a non-HR hit, too. I guess it’s supposed to be a rhetorical question. One I would rather not spend any more time thinking about. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, eli whiteside, jonathan sanchez, Padres
By Chris Quick on April 10, 2010
As fans of baseball, we sometimes like to place a huge (or at least disproportionate) amount of importance on the outcomes of April baseball. If a player is hitting the ball around the field with ease — he’s going to have a great year or he’s completely healed from an injury. If a player is [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged billy wagner, Edgar Renteria, small samples
By Chris Quick on January 5, 2010
Henry Schulman has tweeted that Juan Uribe’s 1-year deal does not include an option. I’m a little surprised that Uribe couldn’t do better than a 1-year deal without an option. Also, I’m a little surprised that he chose to come back to the Giants with Mark DeRosa on the roster. Dollars still have not been [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, juan uribe, shortstop, ss
By Chris Quick on April 23, 2009
In baseball statistics, you’ll often hear the phrase: “small sample size” thrown around early in the season. Most teams in baseball have played about 15 games so far — give or take a game. 15 played games results in 9.2% of your total baseball season. At this point, if you’re a full-time position player you’ve [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged early season stuff, Edgar Renteria, eugenio velez, small samples
By Chris Quick on March 16, 2009
Good morning on a Monday. I hope everyone had a nice weekend and is strapping in for another work week. Something I had forgotten about Spring Training — it’s really long. The games have been going on for a couple of weeks now and yet, we’re still about 20+ days away from Opening Day. Trust [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, Edgar Renteria, links, willie mays
By Chris Quick on February 19, 2009
Yesterday we talked a little bit about Edger Renteria. Mostly in the context of some batted ball data over the last three years. But, today, we’ll be using one of my player value graphs to examine Renteria from 2002-08. The following graph examines both offense and defense to determine the overall value of a player. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, Edgar Renteria, player value graphs, Plots, shortstop
By Chris Quick on February 18, 2009
In 2008, despite Omar Vizquel’s fantastic defensive play at shortstop, the position was a major challenge for the Giants. Vizquel started the year late because of a knee surgery and the Giants rotated in several infielders to play the position. Brian Bocock, Ivan Ochoa, and Emmanuel Burriss all spent time at short but none of [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, Edgar Renteria, shortsthop
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
By Chris Quick on December 8, 2008
Exciting news this weekend, FanGraphs is now providing UZR data — Ultimate Zone Rating — on it’s website. UZR for those who don’t know, is one of the more heralded defensive systems out there. Consider UZR another handy tool to stick in your tool belt when it comes to player analysis. UZR splits the field [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, defense, Edgar Renteria, eugenio velez, fred lewis, omar vizquel, randy winn, rich aurilia, UZR
