By Chris Quick on April 5, 2010
The 2009 Giants probably surprised a few people when they finished the year at 88 wins vs. 74 loses. Their winning percentage of .543 marked the first time since 2004 that the Giants posted a better than .500 winning percentage. The years from 2005-2008 were dark times. Over that span, the Giants posted winning percentages [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, matt cain, pablo sandoval, team preview, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on March 30, 2010
Away from the site for a few days and the Giants extend more players! The biggest news coming out of Giantsland is the Matt Cain extension — the team has re-signed Matt Cain to a new 3-year deal for 2010-2012. Matt’s new deal replaces his already under contract year of 2010 and his option year [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged contract, extension, matt cain, matt cain is good
By Chris Quick on February 11, 2010
Playing around with some PFX tonight. I wanted to plot a graph of fastball height location vs. frequency thrown. I selected Matt Cain and Jeremey Affeldt as comparisons. Big thanks to Joe Lefkowitz’s Pitch F/X Tool for providing the data. My deskstop is still packaged away, and with it my database. All numbers from the [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged groundballs, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, PFX, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on February 7, 2010
It’s time for my annual Giants WAR projection post. You can find the link to the 2009 projection, here. It explains a few things in general and it’s not a bad place to start if you’ve never seen a WAR projection. But, the basics are that: a team totally devised of ‘replacement level talent’ — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, aaron rowand, hitting, john bowker, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, pitching, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on August 26, 2009
After the last soul-crushing defeat, the Giants needed this game. Matt Cain chipped in 7 innings of 2 run baseball and Travis Ishikawa belted a 3-run HR in the 8th inning to break a 2-2 tie. Something that I’ve noticed about Cain this year is that his K/9 has dropped by almost 1 full strikeout [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged matt cain, travis ishikawa, walks
By Chris Quick on August 3, 2009
Yesterday we talked about Lincecum’s changeup being worth +2 wins by FanGraphs’ linear weights for pitch-types. I thought it would be helpful to show some of the other top pitches in the game by their pitch-type values. The following table illustrates the pitches, and the pitchers who throw them, that are worth at least 15 [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged david aardsma, matt cain, pitch-types, pitches, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on June 14, 2009
In today’s game against the A’s, Matt Cain pitched 9 innings of 1 run baseball with no walks and 9 strikeouts. Oddly enough, a major point with Cain this season has been that despite his newfound ability to win games — hint: sarcasm — some of his underlying peripherials have slipped slightly. Mostly his strikeouts [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged matt cain, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on May 29, 2009
I’m getting back online after a week hiatus from blogging. Sometimes real life takes over and the fun stuff (Giants baseball and blogging) has to take a back seat. But, have no fear, I’m back and you should be seeing updates with more regularity heading into the future. In today’s post, I wanted to look [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, brian wilson, bullpen, matt cain, ra/9, randy johnson, starting pitching, tim lincecum, tra
By Chris Quick on April 24, 2009
A couple of random thoughts before the Giants kick off their series with Arizona tonight. For those keeping track at home, the Giants are currently winless (0-6) on the road this year. With Tim Lincecum moving up for the start tonight, maybe the Giants can bring home the first road W this season. My first [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, starting pitching, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on April 10, 2009
MATT CAIN CAN’T WIN GAMEZ!!! Did you know there’s this weird section of the Giants fan base that believes that Matt Cain just-can’t-win-games because he-just-deoesn’t-have-the-right-stuff or because he-always-finds-a-way-to-lose? It’s frightening. There aren’t many things that come out of Giants’ fans that truly bug me but the average fan’s estimation of how good — or bad [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged joe martinez, matt cain, pablo sandoval
