By Chris Quick on July 15, 2010
While we wait for the Giants to start the 2nd half of the season tonight against the Mets, let’s check out some links from around the Giants blogscape. * Triples Alley has an excellent piece up on AT&T Park and it’s affect on hitters. Go read it, now. It dispels some of the myths of [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged att park, links, second half
By Chris Quick on March 19, 2010
Honest question, does anyone really care about baseball right now? I love that Spring Training marks the return of baseball, but I’ve got NCAA basketball fever. If I’m not obsessively checking my bracket every 5 minutes, I’m having heart palpitations over my picks. Hey, Villanova, stop scaring me like that. So, at the moment: NCAA [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged fred lewis, links
By Chris Quick on January 25, 2010
Good morning, Giants fans. I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend. Mine was filled with videogames (Wario’s Smooth Moves for the Wii is a lot of fun), reading (reading through another short story collection of PKD’s works — love him), and trying some new scotch (a buddy of mine hooked me up with a bottle [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged buster posey is a catcher dammit, freddy sanchez, links
By Chris Quick on July 21, 2009
There’s nothing like 2 weeks of work-related training to sweep you away from baseball. Things I missed: The All-Star Game, most of the Pittsburgh series (this wasn’t a bad thing), and a few other odds-and-ends news items. While I’ve been away, I’ve been jotting things down here and there. Here’s a few quick thoughts: Looking [...]
Posted in General Baseball | Tagged blurbs, links
By Chris Quick on March 17, 2009
I’m still tied up in a couple of different projects right now, so I fear it’s going to be another link post today on BCB. But, fear not, I’ve got a couple of cool things lined up for the future and there’s a few interesting things happening right now in Giantsland. Let’s check them out. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bullpen, links, randy johnson
By Chris Quick on March 16, 2009
Good morning on a Monday. I hope everyone had a nice weekend and is strapping in for another work week. Something I had forgotten about Spring Training — it’s really long. The games have been going on for a couple of weeks now and yet, we’re still about 20+ days away from Opening Day. Trust [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, Edgar Renteria, links, willie mays
By Chris Quick on March 10, 2009
I’m in between a couple of STAT-y posts, so I’m going to go the easy route today and just share some Giants related news. Hot out of the oven! ~ A couple of pieces of information on SFGiants.com. First, the Giants have trimmed their ST roster by five players. Pat Misch, Ronnie Ray, Todd Jennings, [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged links
By Chris Quick on March 3, 2009
This might be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in baseball analysis in awhile. Chone Smith — developer of the CHONE projection system and BaseballProjection.com — has put together Wins Above Replacement Data for every player — position players for now, pitchers to be added soon — going back to 1954. This is seriously [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged CHONE, links, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on March 2, 2009
/shameless plug alert This morning for Beyond the Boxscore I wrote an article detailing the results of the 2000 NL MVP race along with some observations on the Kent vs. Bonds debate that usually pops up among Giants fans. I ranked the Top-5 Finishers by total runs, here’s the results in graph format: (Click to [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged links, Plots
By Chris Quick on January 29, 2009
Bear with me, it’s another sloooooow Thursday afternoon. Thankfully, we’re just 16 days away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training. Mid-to-late January is probably the worst time of the year for baseball, the offseason is still trudging along, but you can almost see baseball in the distance. Just a few more weeks and [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged joe crede, links, prospects, will clark
