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Dave Cameron wrote an interesting piece over at ESPN.com on the benefits that soft-tossing lefties like Barry Zito are enjoying in baseball’s new, less hitter-friendly era. Dave (Insider): Despite the fact that most of the focus has been on the downturn in home runs, however, that’s actually just a small part of the downturn in . . . → Read More: Matt Cain’s hot start The Giants escaped Sunday’s game with two wins: one for the day and one for the series. Didn’t come easy though. A poor route by Angel Pagan led to a run that tied the ballgame. The Giants did finally get that run back in the 11th on a clean Hector Sanchez single to the two-man . . . → Read More: We Call it Cain’d for a Reason I’ve seen this game a few times. Nay, I’ve seen this game a few hundred times. Matt Cain pitches great and yet somehow comes away without the “W”. If you went to Matt Cain University, and you took the class “Matt Cain 101,” today’s game would probably be on your syllabus for week two. This . . . → Read More: Matt Cain 101 Theory: now that Brian Wilson is out for the season, and the bullpen is in full “closer by committee” mode, Bruce Bochy is really going to lean on the starting pitching to get him deep into games. Playing arm chair manager is a time tested activity for the unwashed masses on the Internet, but in tonight’s . . . → Read More: My new Bruce Bochy theory We’ve played seven games. It’s still very early in the season. Here are some statistics: Angel Pagan’s wRC+ of two — two! — is pretty impressive. In 29 plate appearances, Pagan has just three hits — two doubles and a single. Both Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabrera have already accrued 0.5 fWAR. That rate, over . . . → Read More: “SSS” is for small sample sizes There are times when you know you’re watching a superb pitching performance. Much like when you turn on a classic movie, or put on a great record, you just know that you’re in for a treat. Today was one of those times. In the Giants home opener against the Pirates, Matt Cain threw one of . . . → Read More: Matt Cain throws one-hitter, dominates Pirates Here’s a new graphic — in its early stages — of something I’m calling Game Flow. The idea is that it’s a simple graph showing the progression of the game from the pitching side of things. I’m still looking for a way to incorporate things like runs, outs, strikeouts, and walks into the graph, . . . → Read More: Swept in Arizona, Giants drop series finale Some more thoughts on the five-year contract extension that Matt Cain signed today. * Per ESPN’s TruMedia, only four starting pitchers — Justin Verlander, Clayton Kershaw, Roy Halladay, and Cole Hammels — had lower wOBA against scores last year. Batters averaged a .262 wOBA against Matt Cain in 2011. That really is a remarkable number. . . . → Read More: Additional thoughts on Matt Cain #bbpBox_186892165736185856 a { text-decoration:none; color:#E54514; }#bbpBox_186892165736185856 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }The #SFGiants have signed Matt Cain to a 5 year extension through the 2017 season with a club/vesting player option for the 2018 season.April 2, 2012 3:05 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite@SFGiantsSan Francisco Giants — More to come later, but for now, yay! This means I won’t have to break out any of those dreadful ‘Matt Cain on the Yankees’ images that I created back in January. Over the weekend it was reported that the Giants and Matt Cain are still having, in what Larry Baer has described as, “back-and-forth conversations” in regards to a potential contract extension. The Matt Cain Contract Extension plotline has been, and will most likely continue to be, one of the more interesting threads of this year’s . . . → Read More: Matt Cain and fair value |
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