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, so to keep his balance,… Read more →
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. Today, we’ll examine… Read more →
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 Jay Buhner that I… Read more →
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 very solid. Check out… Read more →
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 all of them because… Read more →
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 to help us move…. Read more →
The Giants’ offense was supposed to be punch-less this year and for the most part is has been. Let’s take a quick look at how the offense has performed so far, courtesy of The Hardball Times team statistics page. R/G OPS GB% LD% BABIP SF 3.15 .655 47% 20% .286 League 4.53 .739 45% 19% .289 The average team in… Read more →
Ladies and gentleman, John Bowker. It’s tough to overshadow a dominant Tim Lincecum start — 11 punch outs over 6, we’ll go into more detail later — but John Bowker has made quite a name for himself in just two games. The Chronicle noted this morning that Bowker has done something that Giants’ legends — Bobby Bonds, McCovey, Cepeda, Clark,… Read more →