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, Ramon Ortiz, and Josh Phelps… Read more →
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 cool. Want to know how… Read more →
/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 enlarge) You can read the… Read more →
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 we’ll be even closer. Despite… Read more →
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 made his debut in… Read more →
I thought I’d mention that I’ve joined the staff off Beyond the Boxscore to occasionally post on baseball. BTB is a member of the SportsBlog Nation network. They do really good work and they’ve got some great people writing for BTB. I’m thrilled to be a part of the team. And it’ll be a good excuse for me to write… Read more →
Some various Giants-related links this morning that might catch your eye: ~ Dan Szymborksi of BBTF has released his 2009 ZiPS projections for the Giants — do yourself a favor and avert your eyes from the Burriss projection. ZiPS is one of my favorite projection systems so I’ll definitely be going back over them later this week. I’m thinking of… Read more →
No new content today because I’m in the middle of finishing a PITCHf/x analysis of Tim Lincecum’s 138-pitch complete game on Saturday against the Padres. Sneak peak early analysis: Dem’s alotta pitches he threw Any how, stay tuned for the PFX article, it might go up tonight or sometime by early-ish tomorrow. I probably would have had it finished sooner… Read more →
The Giants will be kicking off their series against the dreaded blue ones tonight at Mays Field in a 3-game series. The pitching match-ups for the games are as follows: Friday August 8th – RHP Brad Penny (5-9, 5.88 ERA, 4.66 FIP) vs. LHP Barry Zito (6-13, 5.40 ERA, 4.89 FIP) Saturday August 9th – RHP Hiroki Kuroda (6-8, 4.21… Read more →
Time to share some recommended reading from around the Giants blogosphere.* *Is ‘blogosphere’ the stupidest word ever? I say yes. Leading off, the fine gentleman at Raising Matt Cain are giving Freddie-Loo some much deserved love. Not only is Freddie the best hitting Giant right now by EqA — a score of .321 — he’s also been playing some very… Read more →