Think of this post as a sort of addendum to Rory’s post, ‘The Giants’ thin margin‘. If I had to describe this season, besides using the word ‘injuries’, I would pick ‘tightrope-ish’. Rory talked about the thin margin for Giants’ victories this year — the team has often won games by one run. One run wins are often the product… Read more →
The first day of the 2011 First Year MLB Player Draft has completed and the Giants picked up two prospects with their #29 and #49th overall picks. I’m no draft guru, but the Panik pick feels like a bit of a reach – most pre-draft rankings had him in the 60’s. I’m always a little concerned when the first thing… Read more →
The Giants and Athletics are set to square off tonight in the first of a three game series in San Francisco. If you haven’t been paying attention, the A’s pitching staff is one of the best in baseball right now. If you examine things by fWAR, A’s starters have already tallied 6.2 wins above replacement. That’s second in the majors… Read more →
It’s a dream for him; it gives him not one, but two strikeout pitches – one for both righties and lefties. For right-handed hitters, it’s just no fun at all. He was plenty successful with his changeup alone, a pitch that typically is far more effective versus your Joey Vottoes and Ryan Howardes. But his new slider should make for… Read more →
Our favorite writer and projection machine Dan Szymborski has an ESPN insider article that a lot of Giants fans probably won’t like. The whole article is available to insiders, but the gist is that the Giants have some obstacles to repeating, mainly lack of starting pitching depth, injury risk, and regression from key offensive players. There’s more, but I think… Read more →
It seems lately that news has been sparse, but I picked up this bit of information this morning from John Shea at the Chronicle. Now the plan is for depth at Fresno, and one candidate is 6-foot-7 lefty Andrew Miller, who visited the Giants’ suite Tuesday. Miller was recently sent to the Red Sox in a trade from the Marlins,… Read more →
Tonight the Giants will face off against Colby Lewis and the Texas Rangers. Lewis is a fascinating story in the realm of baseball redemption. He’s a former 1st round draft pick (#38 overall in ’99) that struggled to put things together in the majors. Prior to this season, Lewis had thrown a sum of 217.1 innings in major league baseball… Read more →
In typical fashion, the Giants beat the Phillies in last night’s Game One of the NLCS by just one run. The Giants have now won 4 total postseason games all by a single run. In a publicized ‘Battle of the Aces’ between Lincecum-Halladay, neither pitcher was exceptionally sharp — or exceptionally poor, either. Halladay pitched solidly but Cody Ross got… Read more →
Way back before this season started, I did my annual wins above replacement (WAR) projection post for the 2010 team. I came away with a projected 83-84 wins for the 2010 Giants. Not a bad projection at all, and it’s possible that if we’re talking about true talent this team might be closer to the mid-80′s, but the Giants excelled… Read more →
All Giants rookie starters since 1910 (min. of 100 IP, 60% IP as starters) ranked by ERA+ Rk Player ERA+ WAR SO/9 IP Year Age 1 Jeff Tesreau 173 5.0 4.41 243.0 1912 24 2 Al Demaree 142 4.0 3.43 199.2 1913 28 3 Carl Hubbell 139 2.1 2.69 124.0 1928 25 4 Christy Mathewson 138 7.5 5.92 336.0 1901… Read more →