It’s sort of funny, you know. I thought the Giants ought to go after a first baseman that had been highly productive in the past after winning the World Series in 2010, rather than re-signing Aubrey Huff, who was likely to decline and cost more. You know, someone like Carlos Pena. Or Lance Berkman. Someone that would fit in nicely… Read more →
It turns out, that after checking some of my numbers from the previous post, I had an error in my Excel sheet that was mucking things up. Here’s the revised numbers which — hopefully! — are correct now. Feel free to go over my math in the comments if something looks wrong to you. wWAR = weighted WAR based on… Read more →
For today’s post I’ve taken free agents at the positions in which the Giants need help — 1B/SS/OF — and ranked them by a simple 5/4/3 weighted Wins Above Replacement. Or, in other words, we’ll give look at the mean WARs for certain players, but we’ll give more weight to their more recent performances than past performances. I’m going on… Read more →