Ever since the Giants opened their gorgeous home in 2000, they’ve been counting balls that reach McCovey Cove on the fly Splash Hits. I think the Giants may have believed, before the park opened, that a great many balls would land in the water. They would be wrong. Well, except for when it came to . . . → Read More: Splash Hits
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In mid-December, I wrote a quick blurb on the Giants’ age for the upcoming season among their position players, entitled ‘Are the Giants Geezers Again?‘. I decided to dig a little deeper to see how Sabean has done during his tenure with the Giants by age group and WAR. What I’ve done is to take . . . → Read More: The Sabean Years A quick post today on Giants baserunning from 2007-2008 using Baseball Prospectus’s Baserunning Report tool. We’ll be using EqBRR or Equivalent Base Running runs. It’s the sum of five different baserunning skills translated into runs. Here’s BP’s definition: Equivalent Base Running Runs. Measures the number of runs contributed by a player’s advancement on the bases, . . . → Read More: Giants Baserunning Scores 2007-08 Click here to find out how terrible Dave Roberts is! . . . → Read More: Player Value Graphs 2.0 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 . . . → Read More: WAR Graphs 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 . . . → Read More: 2009 Giants WAR Projection A quick post this morning on the defense from 2002-2008. Thanks to FanGraphs for making bUZR publicly available. I’ve really had a lot of fun looking through the data. I decided to use bUZR from the years 2002-2008 to find the best and worst defender on each Giants team in each year. My criteria was . . . → Read More: Best and Worst Giants’ Defenders 2002-2008 Exciting news this weekend, FanGraphs is now providing UZR data — Ultimate Zone Rating — on it’s website. UZR for those who don’t know, is one of the more heralded defensive systems out there. Consider UZR another handy tool to stick in your tool belt when it comes to player analysis. UZR splits the field . . . → Read More: Ultimate Zone Rating Click to enlarge For a more detailed post on WAR, check out Tom Tango’s excellent blog here. He runs through the idea of Wins Above Replacement and lays out some of the math behind the concept. Big thanks to Colin Wyers for his WAR spreadsheet, making this whole process much, much easier. Things to . . . → Read More: 2008 Win Values for Position Players The All Star break is here and that means that a little more than half the season has been played. It also means that the trading deadline of July 31st is getting closer and closer. At the break, the Giants find themselves in 3rd place in the worst division in baseball with a record of . . . → Read More: 2008 Trade Value Post |
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