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By Chris Quick on September 2, 2010
There’s been no question that it’s been a tough month for Tim Lincecum. Over his past 8 starts the right-hander has put up a line of: 45 innings, 56 hits, 31 earned runs, 19 walks, and 43 strikeouts. Over that period of time, Lincecum’s BABIP was particularly elevated (.366 compared to .308 career) and hitters [...]
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By Chris Quick on June 1, 2010
The panic in Giantsland with regard to Tim Lincecum’s recent struggles has been overwhelming. It’s for a good reason, too. Tim Lincecum has been the most valuable Giant since he moved from really-good to really-freaking-oh-my-goodness good. The Giants, as a team without the benefit of a top notch offense, will need every starting pitcher on [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged analysis, changeup, pitching, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on May 5, 2010
In honor of Tim’s 13 strikeout game against the Marlins on Tuesday, here’s a graph depicting every start in Lincecum’s career and how many strikeouts he had in that particular start. For now, Lincecum’s career high for K’s in a game came against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2009. In that game, Lincecum pitched 9 innings [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged Plots, strikeouts, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on April 20, 2010
Looking through the scope of small sample sizes. Things I’ve learned thus far in the season: ~ Tim Lincecum is still really, really, really good. In 20 innings pitched to start the season Tim has quickly put to rest any concerns over his ST performances. A brief check of some of his stats — 10.80 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged barry zito, bullpen, SSS, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on April 6, 2010
A quick graph. I’m trying something new — let me know if it’s helpful or not. What you’re looking at is Tim Lincecum’s fastball velocity by inning. The game data is from his first start — and victory — of the year against the Houston Astros. Each red dashed-line indicates the end of an inning. [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged fastball velocity, graphs, pitchf/x, Plots, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on April 5, 2010
The 2009 Giants probably surprised a few people when they finished the year at 88 wins vs. 74 loses. Their winning percentage of .543 marked the first time since 2004 that the Giants posted a better than .500 winning percentage. The years from 2005-2008 were dark times. Over that span, the Giants posted winning percentages [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, matt cain, pablo sandoval, team preview, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on March 17, 2010
Per Henry Schulman, the Giants have trimmed their roster down by eight spots in yesterday’s first round of cuts. They are: SS Ehire Adrianza, OF Wendell Fairley, C Johnny Monell, OF Thomas Neal, IF Nick Noonan, C Hector Sanchez and C Jackson Williams. All of the 7 above players were reassigned to minor league camp [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged brett pill, cuts, spring training, thomas neal, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on February 12, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, money, payroll, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on February 7, 2010
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’ — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2010 team, aaron rowand, hitting, john bowker, jonathan sanchez, matt cain, pitching, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on November 19, 2009
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 [...]
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