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2010 Giants WAR Projection

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’ — [...]

Let Me Show You This Bowker

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 a [...]

Diabolical Plotting (with ZiPS!)

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 [...]

zMLE’s for September Call-Ups

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 do, [...]

Wednesday Morning Update: Sore Knee Edition

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, [...]

If Things Go Well, I Might Be Showing Her My O-Swing

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 nothing serious. [...]

Heads Rolling in the MLB

Ouch, bad day yesterday to be involved in running a major league team.
Seattle Mariners GM, Bill Bavasi, was “relieved of duties” and shown the door. I’ve always enjoyed the Mariners on a basic level. I think everyone grew up a fan of Ken Griffey Jr. but the Mariners also had players like Edgar Martinez and [...]

Is John Bowker Unlucky?

After watching the Nationals game on Sunday and watching Bowker hit the ball hard into some outs, I wondered, is John Bowker unlucky?
To figure this out I checked John Bowker’s FanGraphs stats page and noticed something, he’s hitting a bunch of line drives. In 154 PA’s this year, Bowker’s LD% is at 26.4% which is [...]

Draft Day Two and the Weekend in Washingon

You can find all the draft picks that the Giants made on day two of this years draft with the MLB Draft Tracker, a very handy tool to track and see some light scouting reports on all the picks.
The Giants drafted 44 additional players on the second day of the draft. I won’t go through [...]

So, What’d I Miss?

Operation ‘Move All My Junk’ was successful.
The move went amazingly well, no boxes were lost, or items shattered into a million pieces. I’ve got all my fingers left and just a few things are left to move, but the bulk of the work is done. I can’t thank my friends enough who volunteered their Saturday [...]