When Tim Lincecum fell to the Giants as the No. 10 overall pick in the 2006 draft, it was because the majority of the teams that picked before San Francisco — the (Devil) Rays can be excused for selecting Evan Longoria third, for obvious reasons — felt Lincecum would either flat out crumble under the work load of a major… Read more →
The Giants seem to be on a roll now, and walk-off wins sure are a lot of fun. With the Giants’ come-from-behind victory on Wednesday night, they’d won five games in a row – including a feel-good sweep of the Colorado Rockies – and seven of their past eight contests. And again, this is fantastic and exciting news, especially when… Read more →
Tim Lincecum was simply dominant in last night’s 2-0 win against the New York Mets. Coming off a frustrating start in D.C. — the one where Laynce Nix turned into power hitting 136 OPS+ Laynce Nix instead of the career 83 OPS+ version — Tim was on his game for the most part. His control wasn’t excellent — as shown… Read more →
Most of my blog posts are more like features or columns… or something. Humans are creatures of habit. This post will not be a feature or a column. This one will be different, likely a side effect of missing most of the games over the past week – aside from scrutinizing over the box scores and catching Friday night’s game in… Read more →
I like it when the Giants win in Colorado. A couple of thoughts on tonight’s 8-1 win against the Rockies. — * Tim Linecum really pitched an excellent game. Forget the fact that he lost the no-hitter and the shutout in the 7th, he cruised for most of the night, keeping the Rockies’ hitters painfully off balance. The slider, a… Read more →
It’s a dream for him; it gives him not one, but two strikeout pitches – one for both righties and lefties. For right-handed hitters, it’s just no fun at all. He was plenty successful with his changeup alone, a pitch that typically is far more effective versus your Joey Vottoes and Ryan Howardes. But his new slider should make for… Read more →
Well, that felt pretty good. Nothing stops a losing streak quite like one of Tim Lincecum’s change-ups. Lincecum dealt with the problem of his porous defense in the time honored way that we have all dealt with mistake-prone coworkers- by doing his best to make sure that they had as little to do with his success as possible. He struck… Read more →
The Giants gave the Dodgers a drubbing on Saturday afternoon, beating them 10-0 behind a what-we’ve-come-to-expect start from Matt Cain. It was a six-inning, four-leaf-clover charmed effort with only three strikeouts. Three strikeouts! What a fraud. Fortunately, his luck will run out in another 1,000 innings or so. Other than that, they looked (and smelled) like hot garbage on Thursday,… Read more →
What better day is there, other than Opening Day, to have what can only be described as blind optimism? Easy. It’s Opening Day… after winning the World Series for the first time in 53 San Francisco seasons. I know, I know, you’re tickled. Me too. Yesterday, I concluded that Brandon Belt would make his major league debut tonight at Chavez… Read more →
Here’s your latest update on tracking the ‘best shapes’ for the 2011 Giants team. If you missed the original post, you can find it here. The goal, in a nutshell, is this: We’re keeping track of all players on the Giants that are in the ‘best shape’ of their career in some way. That includes fitness regiments, learning a new… Read more →