By Chris Quick on August 27, 2010
(Click to enlarge) Continuing with the heatmap theme, here is a graph using the same concept but with the more advanced statistics. All numbers are pulled from Fangraphs as of 8/28/10. I cheated and used Excel for this particular graph. Aubrey Huff: Still pretty darned good.
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged graphs, heatmap, labwork, offense
By Chris Quick on August 27, 2010
A little bit of visual labwork on this Friday. I’ve been playing around with R lately and I’ve been working on ‘heatmaps’. Each square has a number value and that value is ranked within each column by color — ie: all HR’s are compared against other HR totals for that column. White (higher value) -> [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged basic stats, graphs, heatmap, heatmaps, offense, Plots, R fiddlin'
By Chris Quick on May 13, 2010
For a moment there, the offense looked like it was going to be OK. A couple of Aubrey Huff double plays later and I’m jaded again. At the moment, the Giants are 18-14 based on their hot start in April when the team went 13-9. During that April, the Giants scored roughly 4.5 runs per [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged freddy sanchez, offense, pablo sandoval
By Chris Quick on April 7, 2010
You might think that fresh off a sweep of the Houston Astros I’m thinking about Matt Cain’s first start of the year? Or maybe, Edgar Renteria’s first 5 hit game since 1910. Nope. Instead, I was amazed by the lineup that the Astros used for most of the series. And not in a good way. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged carlos lee, houston astros, john bowker, offense
By Chris Quick on November 15, 2009
Hi. It’s me, the offense from last season. All hitters on the Giants with at least 100 plate appearances. The vertical dashed-line indicates a league average .330 wOBA hitter. It’s still not a pretty sight to look at/think about. I’m going to be really ticked when the Giants eventually release Fred Lewis. Other free thoughts, [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, offense
By Chris Quick on July 22, 2009
This probably isn’t the way the Giants imagined they would start their 2nd half of baseball. After winning 49 games in the 1st half of the season, the Giants have started the post-All-Star break with a record of 1-4. The problems are still the same: the offense stinks. In the first 5 combined games since [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, batting runs, offense
By Chris Quick on May 7, 2009
We’ve barely entered the month of May for Giants baseball and I’m finding that more and more my gaze is turning towards minor league boxscores. I’m still enjoying the MLB team with Pablo Sandoval, Tim Lincecum, (good) Randy Johnson, and some others but with the Dodgers hot start and the Giants offense still looking like [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brandon crawford, farm system, madison bumgarner, offense, offense stinks, prospects, sergio romo, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on May 5, 2009
Prepare for a bold statement: The Giants’ offense isn’t very good. I hope you were sitting down but it’s true, the Giants offense has done more sputtering this season than anything else. A graph and then a bunch of words. This basic graph shows how many runs the Giants have scored thus far in their [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, bengie molina, Emmanuel Burriss, fred lewis, hitting, offense, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on April 3, 2009
This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Round up some of my favorite Giants bloggers and discuss a few questions that I think will be important to the team this season. The Giants are still in a period of transition and this season should be exciting on a few different levels. Each blogger [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, answers, Brian Sabean, bruce bochy, defense, offense, questions
By Chris Quick on August 6, 2008
Was there anything more predictable in the world than watching Mike Hampton throw 7 innings of 2-run ball to beat the Giants for his first win in almost 3 years? Right next to the law of inertia, the law of resultant force, and the law of reciprocal actions should be the fourth law of: “Injured, [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged hitting, home runs, offense, power
