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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’ — [...]

Blech.

I can sorta-kinda-maybe deal with losing 2 of 3 games to the Reds. But, losing to the Dodgers just stinks. Once again, the Giants offense looked pretty flat. Freddy Sanchez went 0-4 and had a couple of at-bats that looked like he was swinging with his eyes closed. The Giants did score their two runs [...]

PFX’ing Sanchez’s No-Hitter

Wow, what a great game to come back to the blog with. If you didn’t know, last night Jonathan Sanchez pitched the first no-hitter of 2009 and the first Giants no-hitter since John Montefusco did it to the Braves in 1976. You’ll often hear sports fans and announcers say: ‘This game had it all’ but [...]

Sadowski FX

This is the post you’ve all been waiting for. Please, hold your excitement because I’m about to use PFX to look at Ryan Sadowski’s first major league start. Madison Bumgarner and Tim Alderson he’s not, but let’s check out what the 26-year-old was throwing in his first major league win.
The Stuff

Pitch
#
mph
pfx_x
pfx_z
spin_dir

FA (Fastball)
41
88.94
-6.62
6.05
225.68

SL (Slider)
24
87.05
1.12
2.48
155.48

CU (Curve)
20
77.5
5.93
-5.12
56.2

Sadowski appears [...]

Ryan Sadowski Called Up

From Chris Haft’s MLBlog:
The move cements Jonathan Sanchez’s demotion to the bullpen. Sanchez, 2-8 with a 5.54 ERA, has lost four consecutive games and, in the minds of Giants officials, simply wasn’t demonstrating much improvement.
I would be surprised if Sadowski makes more than 1-2 starts with the Giants. The 26-year-old right-hander has had a pretty [...]

Sanchez Grindy; Talking More Draftees

The Giants were unable to break out their orange and black colored brooms and sweep the struggling Arizona Diamondbacks in yesterday’s 2-1 loss. Sanchez made one of his “longer” starts of the year by going 5.2 innings against Arizona. But, Sanchez’s #1 problem in ‘09 came back to bite him — that problem being control [...]

Moving Jonathan

There’s been a good bit of talk regarding Jonathan Sanchez floating around lately on the Internet and other various Giants fansites. The common thread seems to be split into two parts. First, is it time that the Giants gave up on Jonathan Sanchez as a starting pitcher. Second, why not move him back into the [...]

Random Thoughts, Random Graphs

A couple of random thoughts before the Giants kick off their series with Arizona tonight. For those keeping track at home, the Giants are currently winless (0-6) on the road this year. With Tim Lincecum moving up for the start tonight, maybe the Giants can bring home the first road W this season.
My first random [...]

Wednesday Potpourri

Getting back online after a week hiatus, so we won’t be doing any heavy lifting today. Instead, I’ll be posting a few Giants-related links. Let’s check them out.
~ The Giants avoided arbitration with LHP Jack Taschner with a 1-year deal worth $835K. Here’s something you might not know, Taschner will be 31-years-old next season. He [...]

Underperformers vs. Overperformers (Reposted)

Quick Update: You may have seen this post sometime last week but I had to take it down after some of my numbers didn’t jive. I’d like to thank McCovey Chronicles for helping me correct some of the finer points of the data and getting it back online.
We are going to look at Giants [...]