By Chris Quick on July 24, 2009
And win a game. Barry Zito hurled 7 innings of 3-hit, 1-run baseball for the Giants while striking out 6 batters and walking 5. The bottom of the 4th inning was particularly weird when Zito did the following: Martin Prado walks. None out. Chipper Jones called out on strikes. One out. Yunel Escobar walks. Martin [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, madison bumgarner, starting pitching, tim alderson
By Chris Quick on June 1, 2009
There’s been a good bit of talk regarding Jonathan Sanchez floating around lately on the Internet and other various Giants fansites. The common thread seems to be split into two parts. First, is it time that the Giants gave up on Jonathan Sanchez as a starting pitcher. Second, why not move him back into the [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged bullpen, jonathan sanchez, pitching, starting pitching
By Chris Quick on May 29, 2009
I’m getting back online after a week hiatus from blogging. Sometimes real life takes over and the fun stuff (Giants baseball and blogging) has to take a back seat. But, have no fear, I’m back and you should be seeing updates with more regularity heading into the future. In today’s post, I wanted to look [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, brian wilson, bullpen, matt cain, ra/9, randy johnson, starting pitching, tim lincecum, tra
By Chris Quick on April 24, 2009
A couple of random thoughts before the Giants kick off their series with Arizona tonight. For those keeping track at home, the Giants are currently winless (0-6) on the road this year. With Tim Lincecum moving up for the start tonight, maybe the Giants can bring home the first road W this season. My first [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, starting pitching, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on March 2, 2009
Big thanks to Eric Simon of Mets Blog Amazin’ Avenue for both the inspiration and some spreadsheet help along the way. (Click to large-ify) This stacked colum graph depicts the WAR values for the starting rotations that we looked at last week. I’ve set the replacement-level for starting pitchers to 5.50 runs. All projections are [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged pitching, rotations, starting pitching, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on August 28, 2008
Note: This is not a post to debate the merits of pitch counts. Don’t do that. We’ve all heard the arguments for and against PC’s ad nauseum. This isn’t a post endorsing, or opposing them, just information for you to look at. I personally believe that pitch counts are only a proxy to work from [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged pitch counts, starting pitching
By Chris Quick on August 12, 2008
A quick post today on Wins Above Replacement and our starting rotation. Tango has a nice post on how to calculate it and some other concepts associated with WAR. WAR is wins above replacement. Replacement is defined very specifically for my purposes: it’s the talent level for which you would pay the minimum salary on [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, jonathan sanchez, kevin correia, matt cain, money, starting pitching, tim lincecum, WAR
