By Chris Quick on January 7, 2010
Giants’ ZiPS were just released late last night. Head on over to BBTF to check them out. Good Stuff: Lincecum get’s an amazing projection, Cain looks very good, Sandoval is a 129 OPS+ hitter, and the bullpen trio of Romo, Wilson, and Affedlt looks very nice. Bad Stuff: Our 2nd best hitter wasn’t tendered a [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, projections, ZiPS
By Chris Quick on November 17, 2009
Brief update today, the 2010 CHONE projections have been released. You can find them, here. Free agents are listed, here. The pitching projections have not yet been released. Just the hitting projections to this point. Interesting projections: Nick Johnson .264/.395/.407 Mmm, OBP. Johnson’s slugging has been down in recent seasons (especially in 2009 when he [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010, CHONE, projections
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
By Chris Quick on January 12, 2009
I’ve been playing around with EditGrid this morning and I made a few graphs relating to the 2009 Giants WAR projections. There really isn’t any new information presented in these graphs, but they might help some to see just where the wins are actually coming from. I like this pie chart because it shows — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, Edgar Renteria, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, projections, randy johnson, randy winn, tim lincecum, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 31, 2008
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Posted in Giants, Popular | Tagged 2009 team, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, noah lowry, projections, randy johnson, sergio romo, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 30, 2008
Today, I’ll be starting my 2009 Wins Above Replacement projection for the Giants. I’ve done some WAR-related stuff on this website before, but if you’re new to the idea, check out this link. It’s a good place to get started. Also, FanGraphs just posted a two-part article on Win Values. It’s also a very good [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, fred lewis, hitting, pablo sandoval, position players, projections, randy winn, travis ishikawa, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on November 18, 2008
Tom Tango has just released his yearly projections via his projection system Marcel. You can find them on FanGraphs — individual player pages or sortable leaderboards — or you can download the entire .zip file on Tango’s own website. Marcel is a very basic projection system that uses 3 years worth of data, with the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bRAA scores, giants hitters, marcel, projections, wOBA scores
