By Chris Quick on October 14, 2008
Dear Blog, Jamaica was hot. The weather was nice and I did my best to soak up some Jamaican culture while I was there; read: I drank my fair share of Red Stripes. We stayed at one of those ‘all inclusive’ styled resorts and the best way I can describe the experience was like going [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged bill neukom, brad hennessey, kevin correia, travis denker, tyler walker
By Chris Quick on September 25, 2008
Balloons! Cotton Candy! JT Snow? From the Chronicle: The team signed Snow to a one-day contract so he can wear No. 6 a final time and retire as a Giant, providing the closure that eluded him as his career ended quietly with Boston in 2006. Snow hesitated before signing the contract at a news conference [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged jt snow, kevin correia, lame?, noah lowry, non-tender, promotions
By Chris Quick on August 12, 2008
A quick post today on Wins Above Replacement and our starting rotation. Tango has a nice post on how to calculate it and some other concepts associated with WAR. WAR is wins above replacement. Replacement is defined very specifically for my purposes: it’s the talent level for which you would pay the minimum salary on [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, kevin correia, matt cain, money, starting pitching, tim lincecum, WAR
By Chris Quick on July 29, 2008
Expert Analysis: Kevin Correia, he’s pretty good until that one inning where he’s not. Here’s the pitch count by inning for Correia in last nights 7-6 win over the Dodgers. See if you can find where the trouble started. Inning PC# 1 12 2 11 3 10 4 14 5 36 6* 7 * Didn’t [...]
Posted in Giants, Trades | Tagged bengie molina, infield defense, jack taschner, jose castillo, kevin correia, Trades
By Chris Quick on July 24, 2008
Thoughts after last night’s 6-4 win over the Washington Nationals ~ Washington might have one of the ugliest lineups in the National League. If you thought the Giants were punchless, have you seen the Nats? Injuries have decimated Washington, transforming their lineup into a graveyard of bad hitters. Willie Harris, Paul Lo Duca, and Ryan [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged defense, kevin correia, steve kline, washington nationals
By Chris Quick on May 1, 2008
We’ve officially played a month of baseball and the Giants have done surprisingly well. Their current record of 13-16 puts them at 3rd place in the National League West. A traditionally strong NL West has looked slightly weaker this year than previous years. The Rockies and Padres have both gotten off to slow starts and [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, kevin correia, matt cain, pitching, starting rotation, tim lincecum
