By Chris Quick on May 23, 2010
The Giants drafted Brandon Crawford out of the 2008 First Year Player Draft from UCLA. The talented college shortstop was projected as a first round talent but he fell to the 4th round when he struggled in his final college year. The book on Crawford was as follows: terrific defender at SS but he swings-and-misses [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2011 team, brandon crawford, defense, Edgar Renteria, J.J. Hardy, juan uribe, shortstop, WAR
By Chris Quick on January 5, 2010
Henry Schulman has tweeted that Juan Uribe’s 1-year deal does not include an option. I’m a little surprised that Uribe couldn’t do better than a 1-year deal without an option. Also, I’m a little surprised that he chose to come back to the Giants with Mark DeRosa on the roster. Dollars still have not been [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, juan uribe, shortstop, ss
By Chris Quick on February 19, 2009
Yesterday we talked a little bit about Edger Renteria. Mostly in the context of some batted ball data over the last three years. But, today, we’ll be using one of my player value graphs to examine Renteria from 2002-08. The following graph examines both offense and defense to determine the overall value of a player. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, Edgar Renteria, player value graphs, Plots, shortstop
By Chris Quick on December 5, 2008
A lot of activity out there in regards to the Renteria deal. Let’s check out a few links. ~ Dan Szymborksi of Baseball Think Factory has a quasi-optimistic ZiPS projection on Renteria. He projects Renteria to hit: .282/.341/.389 in 2009. Before you say “That’s nothing special” realize that the combined shortstop production for the Giants [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, reactions, shortstop
By Chris Quick on November 25, 2008
Just-be-cool. A storm of activity swept through Giants Land yesterday when WFAN — my #1 resource for reliable, sports information — leaked news that SS Edgar Renteria, formerly of the Detroit Tigers, had signed with the Giants for 2-years, $18M. Reactions ranged from solid, to bewilderment, to confused, back to bewilderment again, and then to [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged Edgar Renteria, rumors, shortstop, Signings
By Chris Quick on November 23, 2008
Some various Giants-related links this morning that might catch your eye: ~ Dan Szymborksi of BBTF has released his 2009 ZiPS projections for the Giants — do yourself a favor and avert your eyes from the Burriss projection. ZiPS is one of my favorite projection systems so I’ll definitely be going back over them later [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged 40-man roster, Edgar Renteria, jesus guzman, links, shortstop
By Chris Quick on November 17, 2008
Here’s the facts: In 2008, the Giants had the worst team production for the shortstop position in the National League. The collective of Giants’ shortstops combined for an OPS of .576. That made them the only team in the NL that failed to surpass the .600 OPS mark for team shortstop production. Omar Vizquel, Ivan [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged free agents, furcal, shortstop
By Chris Quick on April 21, 2008
The online Giants community has been perkin’ this past weekend. The team won a series against the Cardinals, which featured more Lincecum goodness with a side of Bowker power, and made a roster move that has some scratching their heads and others going “meh”. Let’s talk about the roster move that took place. The Giants [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brian bocock, Emmanuel Burriss, Rajai Davis, shortstop
By Chris Quick on February 27, 2008
The latest news out of Spring Training is that Omar Vizquel will miss 4-6 weeks with a knee injury. The official word is that it’s a ‘torn medial meniscus’ in his left knee. Vizquel has had knee problems a couple of times in his 19-season career, the most recent was two surgeries that he had [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged defense, injury, omar vizquel, shortstop
By Chris Quick on November 7, 2007
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports has announced that the Giants and Omar Vizquel are close to signing a 1 year $5.5M dollar deal. Under the rumored new deal, Omar would earn about $1.5M more from his 2007 salary after posting the worst OPS in the National League in ’07 (when sorting by 450 plate appearances, [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged omar vizquel, shortstop
