Final 2009 Giants WAR Projection
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Underperformers vs. Overperformers (Reposted)
Quick Update: You may have seen this post sometime last week but I had to take it down after some of my numbers didn’t jive. I’d like to thank McCovey Chronicles for helping me correct some of the finer points of the data and getting it back online. We are going to look at Giants pitching this morning by comparing… Read more →
Stop It.
I raised this question once before, but, is the “Trade Matt Cain” meme the worst thing ever? Select quotes from an article published yesterday on SFGiants.com: The discussion over whether the Giants should trade Matt Cain already is a lively one, conducted on radio talk shows and Internet fan sites and by baseball reporters nationwide. Does lively mean infuriating? And… Read more →
Release Points
Quick plot post this morning before I run off to a meeting. Release points for Matt Cain and Geno Espineli from last nights loss against the Padres. Cain’s release point looks pretty good. The pitches are grouped pretty closely together. Sometimes if a pitcher changes his arm angle to throw a breaking ball, hitters will be able to tell by… Read more →
Pull It, No Justice for Cain, and Blurbs
A brief post this morning on who’s pulling the ball the most on the Giants. Thanks go out to the new baseball statics website, StatCorner. StatCorner has some really interesting stats including batted ball information for pitchers and hitters, daily updated wOBA scores, and much more. I’ve added them to the ‘Essentials’ link section, should be a great resource. In… Read more →
Valuing The Rotation
A quick post today on Wins Above Replacement and our starting rotation. Tango has a nice post on how to calculate it and some other concepts associated with WAR. WAR is wins above replacement. Replacement is defined very specifically for my purposes: it’s the talent level for which you would pay the minimum salary on the open market, or for… Read more →
Cain’s Second Half Start
Quick post today, Matt Cain has historically been a better pitcher in the 2nd half of the season. It’s not surprising to see him do well in his first three starts since the 2nd half started — 4 GS, 28.2 IP, 24 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 10 BB, 23 SO, 1.57 ERA. Something I’ve noticed with Cain since the… Read more →
Starting Pitchers and Game Scores
After my post on WPA Plots — which you can find here — I had some interest in plotting Game Scores. Because I love visual aids, I decided to plot them for the Giants’ starters of Barry Zito, Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Jonathan Sanchez. I didn’t include Correia or Pat Misch because they’ve both shared 5th starter duties this… Read more →
Things I Learned While on Vacation
This reminds me of one of those “What did you do last summer” assignments that you used to get at the start of a new school year. 1. Matt Cain is pretty good. It’s easy to forget that he’s actually younger than Lincecum and already has two full seasons of pitching under his belt. He’s tended to bounce around between… Read more →
Bad luck, but in good company
In what felt like a snapshot from the 2007 season, the Giants wasted another solid pitching effort from Matt Cain. Cain pitched 7 innings of 3-run ball but got the loss when the Giants couldn’t get anything going offensively against Rich Harden. Cain’s final line on the night looks like this: 7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1… Read more →