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By Chris Quick on August 2, 2010
I’m a bit late on responding to the Giants deadline deals, but I wanted to briefly write a few words about the two relievers the Giants picked up. Giants Lose: OF John Bowker, RHP Joe Martinez Giants Get: LHP Javier Lopez I guess this means the quest for the LOOGY is over. I’ll state up [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bullpen, javier lopez, joe martinez, john bowker, ramon ramirez, relievers, Trades
By Chris Quick on June 4, 2010
Go gently, my sweet prince. According to CSN Bay Area, the Giants have sent OF John Bowker to AAA Fresno. The Giants, as usual, don’t seem to have the patience to let young hitters just play for an extended period of time. After being proclaimed the starting right fielder, John Bowker played for most of [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged john bowker, pat burrell, Veterans!
By Chris Quick on May 14, 2010
I know it’s tacky to quote yourself, but I never claimed to be non-tacky. I got the opportunity to write a guest post for Rob Neyer’s SweetSpot blog this week and I took the chance to talk a little about the Giants situation with Mark DeRosa. It seems that the Giants are hoping that some [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged hurt, john bowker, left field, Mark DeRosa, wrist
By Chris Quick on April 7, 2010
You might think that fresh off a sweep of the Houston Astros I’m thinking about Matt Cain’s first start of the year? Or maybe, Edgar Renteria’s first 5 hit game since 1910. Nope. Instead, I was amazed by the lineup that the Astros used for most of the series. And not in a good way. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged carlos lee, houston astros, john bowker, offense
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 June 25, 2009
In 2008, Bowkermania hit the Giants like a hurricane. A hurricane with little stubby arms that sprayed line drives and dingers all around the ballpark. And then, poof, it was gone in the blink of an eye and 326 at-bats. Of course, I’m talking about John Bowker. Bowker entered baseball with a bang — blasting [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged john bowker, Outfield, walking
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 September 5, 2008
I meant to do this earlier when the call-ups were first announced, but I got sidetracked. If you’re wondering how some of our minor league player’s performances might translate to the majors, this post is for you. Note: Translations are NOT a guarantee of performance nor are they a prediction of what a player will [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged brad hennessey, Geno Espineli, john bowker, MLE, nate schierholtz, pat misch, scott mcclain, September call-ups, steve holm
By Chris Quick on August 13, 2008
Good lord, what a terrible game last night. In the 0.5 seconds it took for Brad Ausmus’ — hereby referred to as the evil one — line drive to reach Lincecum’s knee, every tragic career ending scenario flashed through my head. Watching Lincecum limp badly off the field as he leaned against our head trainer, [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged first base, john bowker, tim lincecum, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on July 18, 2008
You know what I’m talkin’ about. (10 points to whomever gets the movie reference) After writing a little yesterday on Fred Lewis and his patient approach at the dish, BCB commenter Delorean reminded me of the great plate discipline data you can pull from FanGraphs. I’ve briefly touched on these stats here at BCB but [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bengie molina, fred lewis, hitting, john bowker, omar vizquel, plate discipline
