Giants Baseball With a Side of STATS
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, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 first 25 [...]
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 [...]
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, ineffective, [...]