As of late, the Giants’ lineup looks suprisngly … competent? Here’s the current lineup sorted by adjusted on-base plus slugging (OPS+): Rk Pos PA AB OPS+ 1 LF Melky Cabrera 289 269 165 2 3B Pablo Sandoval 141 129 136 3 C Buster Posey 244 217 131 4 1B Brandon Belt 169 138 130 5 CF Angel Pagan 279 258… Read more →
Tim Lincecum is now 2-6 with a 5.82 ERA. His walk rate has spiked to over five per nine innings. Thus, despite his strong strikeout rate, his strikeout to walk ratio has crashed below two. The Giants are now 2-9 in his starts, having given up 63 runs while scoring just 41, and his poor performance certainly isn’t going unnoticed…. Read more →
If it ain’t broke, don’t fracture it. So, this happened – Pablo Sandoval hurt his other hamate bone and will now go on the disabled list for an extended period of time. It’s worth noting that he missed 41 games and six weeks of baseball last season recovering from a broken hamate bone on his right hand; this time it’s… Read more →
We’ve played seven games. It’s still very early in the season. Here are some statistics: Angel Pagan’s wRC+ of two — two! — is pretty impressive. In 29 plate appearances, Pagan has just three hits — two doubles and a single. Both Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabrera have already accrued 0.5 fWAR. That rate, over a full season, gives you… Read more →
Here’s a new graphic — in its early stages — of something I’m calling Game Flow. The idea is that it’s a simple graph showing the progression of the game from the pitching side of things. I’m still looking for a way to incorporate things like runs, outs, strikeouts, and walks into the graph, but for now this is a… Read more →
If you’re a pessimist you’ll probably say … Tim Lincecum didn’t look at all that great. In Lincecum’s first start of the year he struck out seven batters while walking just one over 5.1 innings. Lincecum, at times, looked a little rusty, as his command wasn’t exceptionally sharp for most of the night. According to Brooks Baseball Lincecum’s velocity topped… Read more →
The Giants have made quite a few deals today — Melky Cabrera, Nate Schierholtz, Santiago Casilla have all signed deals — as the team works it’s way through the arbitration process. The most exciting deal today, by far, is the three year deal that Pablo Sandoval has agreed to. From the Giants twitter feed: Per Andrew Baggarly, the contract breaks… Read more →
Before we get down to the nitty-gritty of this week’s post, I want to extend my best wishes to Wilson Ramos’ family and the Washington Nationals organization. I was so happy to hear he’d been found safe and has returned to his family. I hope all our players in winter leagues around the world stay safe. The playoff races are… Read more →
We have almost a full plate of winter league baseball at our disposal. Every league I have committed to covering here has begun, except for the Colombian League. Team Renteria updated the league page, saying that Play Ball! is scheduled for November 18. None of the rosters have been updated yet, but now we know when Opening Day is. I’ll… Read more →
I held off on doing an update in the middle of last week because two other leagues were starting up at the end of the week: the Nicaraguan League (NPBL) and the Colombian League. Turns out that nobody from the Giants is playing for either league right now. Oh well. Plus I waited for the big day of my entire… Read more →