By Chris Quick on June 23, 2010
Andres Torres, career minor league journeyman reborn in 2010, has been a major part of the Giants offense — and defense — this season. One of the reasons that Torres has been so valuable to the G’s this year has been his plate approach. Torres has an excellent BB% of 13.9% at the moment — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged andres torres, PFX, Plots
By Chris Quick on April 22, 2010
The Giants’ poor luck in San Diego continued yesterday when the Padres beat the Giants 5-2 for the series sweep. Jon Garland pitched 7 innings and was never really challenged at any point during the game. Todd Wellemeyer, on the other hand, didn’t fare as well, throwing 87 pitches in 4 innings while walking 4 [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 5th starters, PFX, todd wellemeyer
By Chris Quick on February 11, 2010
Playing around with some PFX tonight. I wanted to plot a graph of fastball height location vs. frequency thrown. I selected Matt Cain and Jeremey Affeldt as comparisons. Big thanks to Joe Lefkowitz’s Pitch F/X Tool for providing the data. My deskstop is still packaged away, and with it my database. All numbers from the [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged groundballs, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, PFX, pitchf/x, pitching
By Chris Quick on December 15, 2009
On the scale of exciting Hot Stove News, the Giants signing Tony Pena Jr. to a minor league deal probably ranks near the bottom of anyone’s list. Pena Jr., the son of former baseball player Tony Pena, has spent parts of 4 seasons in the majors as a shortstop. Unfortunately for Pena, his career as [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged PFX, pitching, toe the rubber, tony pena jr
By Chris Quick on August 18, 2009
Updates have been a little slow lately but watching tonight’s game against the Reds made me think. It seems that teams have really started to pitch Pablo pretty hard inside. Currently, it’s the bottom of the 8th and the game is tied 5-5, but I wanted to share my quick observation with a PitchF/X graph. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged hitting, pablo sandoval, PFX
By Chris Quick on July 11, 2009
Wow, what a great game to come back to the blog with. If you didn’t know, last night Jonathan Sanchez pitched the first no-hitter of 2009 and the first Giants no-hitter since John Montefusco did it to the Braves in 1976. You’ll often hear sports fans and announcers say: ‘This game had it all’ but [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged jonathan sanchez, no-hitter, PFX, pitchf/x, pitching
