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The Giants have made quite a few deals today — Melky Cabrera, Nate Schierholtz, Santiago Casilla have all signed deals — as the team works it’s way through the arbitration process. The most exciting deal today, by far, is the three year deal that Pablo Sandoval has agreed to. From the Giants twitter feed: #bbpBox_159430001450696704 . . . → Read More: Pablo Sandoval agrees to three-year deal This is Santiago Casilla’s first career at-bat, after eight seasons in the majors, in today’s game win against Marlins. OBP machine, Santiago Casilla. He ended up walking. Here’s the same image, but with a strike zone added. I’m wondering, can they teach this hitting style to Aaron Rowand? . . . → Read More: At-bat of the year Consider the bullpen of the Giants my latest fascination. Why? Because the Giants’ bullpen has been great this season, right? I wrote about it yesterday, here. (That post has since been updated at the end.) Except, I think it’s possible that it’s been a bit more than just great. It’s been spectacular. In fact, it almost . . . → Read More: A brilliant bullpen in the Bay Back in May of 2010, FanGraphs began providing Shutdowns (SD) and Meltdowns (MD) in the Win Probability section of each pitchers’ page: … there’s been a lot of discussion on The Book Blog about creating a save style metric based on WPA. The end result of the discussion was to create two stats: Shutdowns and Meltdowns. . . . → Read More: Romo shuts it down If you care at all about fastball velocity, the horizontal and vertical movement of a slider, or anything else of a similar nature, you really should be reading more of Mike Fast at Baseball Prospectus – Could there be a better name for a man in their particular field, other than, perhaps, Home Run Baker? . . . → Read More: Santiago Casilla’s velocity, Giants’ ‘pen |
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