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Giants Reach Deal With Lincecum

Our long national nightmare is over. Hot off the presses:
The contract is reported to be for two years and $23 million. SI.com reported that Lincecum will receive $8 million in 2010, $13 million in 2011 and a $2 million signing bonus to be split between the two years.
Narrowly missing arbitration, Lincecum agrees to a 2-year, [...]

2010 Giants WAR Projection

It’s time for my annual Giants WAR projection post. You can find the link to the 2009 projection, here. It explains a few things in general and it’s not a bad place to start if you’ve never seen a WAR projection. But, the basics are that: a team totally devised of ‘replacement level talent’ — [...]

He’s Good, Folks.

And by good, I mean really-friggin-good. You can find the voter break down on the BBWAA website, here.

Player
ERA+
SO/9
BB/9
IP
W
L
H
R
ER
BB
SO
ERA

Chris Carpenter
185
6.73
1.78
192.2
17
4
156
49
48
38
144
2.24

Tim Lincecum
173
10.42
2.72
225.1
15
7
168
69
62
68
261
2.48

Adam Wainwright
158
8.19
2.55
233.0
19
8
216
75
68
66
212
2.63

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool UsedGenerated 11/19/2009.

Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and What The H#!LL Are The Giants Doing?

It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to sit down at my PC and find the time (and energy) to write something about the Giants. Me and my wife have decided to take the plunge and enter the world of home ownership (also known colloquially as “debt”). This will be our first time buying a [...]

End Of Year Thoughts

Sitting in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains this weekend a fleeting thought struck me. I wonder how the Giants are doing right now? It was a brief, inconsequential thought about the team as they played their last few days of regular season baseball. Over the past weekend I celebrated my first wedding anniversary with [...]

I Want Robot Umpires.

After watching the final game in the Giants vs. Dodgers series yesterday, I’ve come to the decision that I want robot umpires in baseball. Gone are the days of humans officiating sports, I want the cold eye of a machine to determine outcomes. Long live robot umpires!
I’m not one for complaining about officiating but yesterday’s [...]

Two-Win Pitches

Yesterday we talked about Lincecum’s changeup being worth +2 wins by FanGraphs’ linear weights for pitch-types. I thought it would be helpful to show some of the other top pitches in the game by their pitch-type values. The following table illustrates the pitches, and the pitchers who throw them, that are worth at least 15 [...]

Lincecum Rolls To Victory In SF

Tim Lincecum pitched another extraordinary game last night against the Phillies. Against a packed lineup that seems to have a solid hitter at each position in the batting order, Lincecum tossed 8 innings of shutout baseball. He struck out 8 hitters, walked 1, and wiggled out of a few jams in the mid-innings of the [...]

Giants Add Garko; Lincecum Strikes Out 15

The Giants, in a quest to add something resembling a major league hitter to their lineup, went out and traded LHP Scott Barnes for 1B Ryan Garko from the Cleveland Indians. Let’s look at some background information on the players involved in this trade before we go any further.
Ryan Garko
The 28-year-old Garko was drafted in [...]

Tim Lincecum is Good; Running the Bases; Thinking About Fred Lewis’ Expectations

Tim Lincecum is good. It’s almost like he should get some sort of award. Something like: “Award for Guy Who Throws Good” or something. Nah, it’ll never happen. Watching Lincecum throw another CG against the A’s last night was just what the doctor ordered after watching Sanchez struggle against a largely punchless hitting A’s team.
Some [...]