By Chris Quick on May 20, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged noah lowry
By Chris Quick on February 26, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged eugenio velez, jesse english, noah lowry, springtraining, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on December 31, 2008
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Posted in Giants, Popular | Tagged 2009 team, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, noah lowry, projections, randy johnson, sergio romo, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on September 25, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged jt snow, kevin correia, lame?, noah lowry, non-tender, promotions
By Chris Quick on August 22, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged blueprint, injury, matt palmer, noah lowry
By Chris Quick on March 22, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, fangraphs, matt cain, noah lowry, pitch analysis, starters, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on March 9, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged analysis, noah lowry, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on March 4, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged injury, loss of control, noah lowry, pitching
