I think it was around 2005, or so, when I started to get back into Giants baseball. As a younger person growing up, I always loved baseball. I especially loved the statistics, the numbers, the never ending columns of data that baseball seemed to create. I can recall spending countless wasted hours on games like Sierra’s Front Page Sports Baseball… Read more →
Yesterday an interesting article came online via the Mercury News and Giants beat writer, Andrew Baggarly. The article centered around Noah Lowry and his latest health issue. The once changeup-tossing lefty went under the knife yesterday for yet another surgery. Lowry was battling pain in his shoulder and neck, and the surgery (which will remove a rib on his left… Read more →
What’s this? My god, it’s a boxcore! Baseball is officially back. I can’t tell you how good it feels to be able to wake up, go online, and read an honest-to-goodness boxscore. Yes, ST stats don’t really mean anything, but, it’s great see the players on the field — even Eugenio Velez. The first ST game of the year for… Read more →
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Balloons! Cotton Candy! JT Snow? From the Chronicle: The team signed Snow to a one-day contract so he can wear No. 6 a final time and retire as a Giant, providing the closure that eluded him as his career ended quietly with Boston in 2006. Snow hesitated before signing the contract at a news conference Wednesday, saying, “I need to… Read more →
The Giants won another game in their last at-bat yesterday when Manny Burriss scampered home to score the winning run after Marlins closer, Kevin Gregg, uncorked a wild pitch in the dirt that got away from Paul Lo Duca John Baker — sweet, sweet, Schadenfreude. Who says you need to hit to win games? In the eyes and minds of… Read more →
Back to the blog after a short break. Fangraphs is one of my favorite baseball websites on the internet. It’s always been a great resource for people searching for more in depth baseball statistics. They’ve just recently added a feature where you can search by pitch type — type of pitch, speed, and percentage thrown — it’s another great tool… Read more →
With the news that Noah Lowry will miss some time to begin the year with what’s been diagnosed as ‘exertional compartmental syndrome’ in his forearm, his PITCHf/x article might seem a little late. The good news is that Lowry can point to an actual physical condition that hindered him in pitching a baseball. That might sound a little weird but… Read more →
As I sit in a Best Western somewhere in Virginia, I’m typing this post up while I watch the local Spanish channel. The show is muted, my ability to speak and understand Spanish is extremely rudimentary, but every actor is speaking with an intense furor. I don’t need the audio to see that. Everyone talks with huge exaggerated hand motions… Read more →