By Chris Quick on August 27, 2010
A little bit of visual labwork on this Friday. I’ve been playing around with R lately and I’ve been working on ‘heatmaps’. Each square has a number value and that value is ranked within each column by color — ie: all HR’s are compared against other HR totals for that column. White (higher value) -> [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged basic stats, graphs, heatmap, heatmaps, offense, Plots, R fiddlin'
By Chris Quick on July 29, 2010
*From 1901-2010 I’m in love with the new Baseball-Reference WAR data. WAR, or Wins Above Replacement, is the uber-stat that attempts to encompass the total value of what makes a player, erm, valuable. With the development of FanGraphs and other saber-slanted websites, WAR has become a pretty well known statistic. If you’re new to the [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged bobby bonds, bobby murcer, defense, Dick Dietz, graphs, Plots, total zone
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 June 7, 2010
As Pablo Sandoval continues to struggle this season — currently hitting a wOBA of .326 — it seems that everyone is in search for an answer. Two major things stick out to me: (1) His power, as determined by ISO — which remember, league average is around .150 — has plummeted. Pablo’s 2010 ISO of [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged labwork, pablo sandoval, pitchf/x, Plots
By Chris Quick on June 2, 2010
This one speaks for itself. A graph of fastball velocity by appearance from our favorite flame-throwing closer.
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged graphs, Plots, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on May 5, 2010
In honor of Tim’s 13 strikeout game against the Marlins on Tuesday, here’s a graph depicting every start in Lincecum’s career and how many strikeouts he had in that particular start. For now, Lincecum’s career high for K’s in a game came against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2009. In that game, Lincecum pitched 9 innings [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged Plots, strikeouts, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on May 4, 2010
Outside of on-field performance, there’s a few things that will always endear me to a pitcher. Stirrups, check. Weird facial hair, check. Funky pitching motions, double-check. As a fan of the Giants and their farm system, sometime around 2007 Sergio Romo caught my eye when he completely devastated the California League. If you ever read [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged brian wilson, graphs, pitchf/x, Plots, sergio romo, slider
By Chris Quick on April 6, 2010
A quick graph. I’m trying something new — let me know if it’s helpful or not. What you’re looking at is Tim Lincecum’s fastball velocity by inning. The game data is from his first start — and victory — of the year against the Houston Astros. Each red dashed-line indicates the end of an inning. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged fastball velocity, graphs, pitchf/x, Plots, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on October 14, 2009
How many times this past season did Aaron Rowand swing at a slider and miss completely? Thanks to the magic (and nerdery) of PitchF/X we can answer that question. In 2009, Rowand swung at, and missed, the slider 63 separate times. Seems more than that, doesn’t it? For most of the season, the slider seemed [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, pitchf/x, Plots, sliders
By Chris Quick on August 14, 2009
Run prevention is a hugely important team skill in baseball. Baseball highlights will often be composed of those who can hit the longest home runs, but having a top defensive team can do wonders for a team’s record. For example, take the Giants. Collectively as a team the Giants can’t hit their way out of [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Plots | Tagged defense, FIP, Plots, team defense, UZR
