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Magic Happens, Giants Win NL West
It’s been a long, hard season. If this season was a candy bar, it would be dark chocolate with a creamy torturous filling. And peanuts, it would have peanuts for some reason. In handing the Padres a 3-0 defeat today, the Giants are your official 2010 champs on the National League West. It wasn’t always pretty but the Giants made… Read more →
State of the Giants – September Edition
(Apologies for the recent downtime. Sometimes Real Life ™ has a habit of sucking up all your time.) The Giants currently sit just 1 game out of first place in the National League West. Today the team will wrap up it’s 4 game series against the Padres, and if they can win, will be tied for 1st place in the… Read more →
I Did Not Enjoy That
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. The Giants dropped to 8-6… Read more →
Getting Swept by the Padres…
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 Sanchez was filthy until he… Read more →
More Projected Pitching Graphs
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 add nearly +2 wins to… Read more →
WAR: ’09 NL West Pitching Projections (Updated)
(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 be examining the National League… Read more →