By Chris Quick on April 13, 2010
I’m a big fan of Dave Allen and his work with PitchF/X. Dave has put out some really cool — and informative — graphs by using PFX data. His post today on FanGraphs and Jason Heyward’s struggles against breaking pitches down in the zone got me thinking — how is Aaron Rowand looking so far [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, plate approach, sliders
By Chris Quick on March 9, 2010
A quick graph post tonight before I turn in. I’m trying to come up with a graph that shows the ups and downs of a player’s progress over the course of a season. I know that the praiseworthy FanGraphs has been doing similar graphs for awhile, but I wanted to try my hand at my [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, graphs, hitting, pablo sandoval
By Chris Quick on February 7, 2010
It’s time for my annual Giants WAR projection post. You can find the link to the 2009 projection, here. It explains a few things in general and it’s not a bad place to start if you’ve never seen a WAR projection. But, the basics are that: a team totally devised of ‘replacement level talent’ — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, aaron rowand, hitting, john bowker, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, pitching, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on October 14, 2009
How many times this past season did Aaron Rowand swing at a slider and miss completely? Thanks to the magic (and nerdery) of PitchF/X we can answer that question. In 2009, Rowand swung at, and missed, the slider 63 separate times. Seems more than that, doesn’t it? For most of the season, the slider seemed [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, pitchf/x, Plots, sliders
By Chris Quick on August 18, 2009
Updates have been a little slow lately but watching tonight’s game against the Reds made me think. It seems that teams have really started to pitch Pablo pretty hard inside. Currently, it’s the bottom of the 8th and the game is tied 5-5, but I wanted to share my quick observation with a PitchF/X graph. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged hitting, pablo sandoval, PFX
By Chris Quick on May 5, 2009
Prepare for a bold statement: The Giants’ offense isn’t very good. I hope you were sitting down but it’s true, the Giants offense has done more sputtering this season than anything else. A graph and then a bunch of words. This basic graph shows how many runs the Giants have scored thus far in their [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, bengie molina, Emmanuel Burriss, fred lewis, hitting, offense, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on December 30, 2008
Today, I’ll be starting my 2009 Wins Above Replacement projection for the Giants. I’ve done some WAR-related stuff on this website before, but if you’re new to the idea, check out this link. It’s a good place to get started. Also, FanGraphs just posted a two-part article on Win Values. It’s also a very good [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, fred lewis, hitting, pablo sandoval, position players, projections, randy winn, travis ishikawa, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 10, 2008
Today’s post is similar to yesterday’s post, I’m using the same plot format but instead of using 2008 data, I thought I would plot some projections for 2009. I’m a big fan of ZiPS — a free projection system from BBTF — and I think it’s one of the better systems out there. Again, we’ll [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged Edger Renteria, Emmanuel Burriss, hitting, john bowker, josh phelps, travis ishikawa, ZiPS
By Chris Quick on December 9, 2008
I’ve got a quick plot I wanted to share today. I’m in between a few things on the site but, if you’re a reader of this site you know I love visual aids. I’ve been thinking about how several of our hitters did last year and decided to plot them out in regards to ISO [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged hitting, ISO, OBP, Renteria
By Chris Quick on August 7, 2008
If you’ve seen one game this year of Giants baseball you know that this team doesn’t hit for power. Not hitting for power means not hitting for home runs. El Lefty Malo recently touched on this conundrum. The Giants, as a team, aren’t projected to eclipse the century mark for home runs this year. They [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged christy mathewson, conor gillapsie, history, hitting, pitching, tim lincecum
