By Chris Quick on April 21, 2010
Question: Are the Giants the only team in baseball that can lose a game in which their starter goes 7 innings, strikes out 10 batters, and only allows 1 hit — a non-HR hit, too. I guess it’s supposed to be a rhetorical question. One I would rather not spend any more time thinking about. [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, eli whiteside, jonathan sanchez, Padres
By Chris Quick on April 13, 2009
Kinda sucks. — You would figure that tossing Zito-Sanchez-Lincecum at the Padres for a 3-game series would net you at least one win. Instead, the Giants got steam-rolled by the Peavy-Young train and Shawn Hill (no, not that Shaun Hill) looked pretty decent, too. Barry Zito needed 39-pitches to escape a horrifying 1st inning. Jonathan [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged dallas mcpherson, getting swept, Padres
By Chris Quick on February 25, 2009
A quick post today furthering some of the projections that we looked at yesterday. We’ll be looking at the distribution of wins above replacement for each team’s starting rotation and bullpen. San Francisco Giants The Giants are getting huge chunks of production from Lincecum, Cain, and Johnson. Sanchez isn’t too shabby either, he’s going to [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, CHONE, Diamondbacks, dodgers, Padres, pitching projection, Rockies, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on February 24, 2009
(Warning: Long post) (Edit: I’ve updated my data a little, instead of using my Giants projections from my 2009 Team WAR post, I decided to just run CHONE across the board for every team. Overall, this didn’t really change the rankings but I thought it would be fairer to do it this way.) Today we’ll [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, brian wilson, bullpen, Diamondbacks, dodgers, NL West, Padres, projections, Rockies
