Giants Baseball With a Side of STATS
Playing around with some PFX tonight. I wanted to plot a graph of fastball height location vs. frequency thrown. I selected Matt Cain and Jeremey Affeldt as comparisons.
Big thanks to Joe Lefkowitz’s Pitch F/X Tool for providing the data. My deskstop is still packaged away, and with it my database. All numbers from the 2009 [...]
You should probably like them a good bit more now:
The Royals are closing in on a two-year deal to sign right-hander Kyle Farnsworth as a setup reliever, MLB.com has learned.
Also, the Royals announced on Thursday they signed right-hander Doug Waechter as a middle reliever and left-hander Horacio Ramirez as a starter, both to one-year contracts. [...]
The Giants kicked off the free agent market this offseason by inking lefty reliever Jeremy Affeldt to a 2-year, $8M contract. The team, in sore need of bullpen help, made the first step among many in an effort to fix their battered bullpen. Affeldt definitely improves the bullpen but for fans that haven’t seen Affeldt [...]
Extra Baggs is reporting that the Giants have signed LHP Jeremy Affeldt to a 2-year deal. Terms of the deal have no yet been disclosed but Affeldt made $3M with the Cincinnati Reds last year. Affeldt had a break out year with the Reds in 2008 when he compiled a pitching line of: 78.1 IP, [...]