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By Chris Quick on September 1, 2009
It’s September 1st and the Giants are tied for the Wild Card lead in the NL. Commence freakout. Before you preorder your World Series tickets, realize that there’s a lot of baseball left to play. BP’s postseason odds projection has us pegged at a 22.4% chance of winning the Wild Card. The Rockies’ odds are [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged buster posey, fred lewis, ryan garko, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on August 26, 2009
After the last soul-crushing defeat, the Giants needed this game. Matt Cain chipped in 7 innings of 2 run baseball and Travis Ishikawa belted a 3-run HR in the 8th inning to break a 2-2 tie. Something that I’ve noticed about Cain this year is that his K/9 has dropped by almost 1 full strikeout [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged matt cain, travis ishikawa, walks
By Chris Quick on July 22, 2009
I wanted to share this quick post since I’m sure a few other Giants fans might be interested. The Pirates have just traded Adam LaRoche to the Red Sox for two minor prospects (reports are for SS Argenis Diaz and RHP Hunter Strickland). From 2006-2007 LaRoche posted back-to-back 2.5 win years with the Braves and [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged adam laroche, first base, travis ishikawa, WAR comparison, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on May 5, 2009
Prepare for a bold statement: The Giants’ offense isn’t very good. I hope you were sitting down but it’s true, the Giants offense has done more sputtering this season than anything else. A graph and then a bunch of words. This basic graph shows how many runs the Giants have scored thus far in their [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, bengie molina, Emmanuel Burriss, fred lewis, hitting, offense, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on February 26, 2009
What’s this? My god, it’s a boxcore! Baseball is officially back. I can’t tell you how good it feels to be able to wake up, go online, and read an honest-to-goodness boxscore. Yes, ST stats don’t really mean anything, but, it’s great see the players on the field — even Eugenio Velez. The first ST [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged eugenio velez, jesse english, noah lowry, springtraining, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on December 30, 2008
Today, I’ll be starting my 2009 Wins Above Replacement projection for the Giants. I’ve done some WAR-related stuff on this website before, but if you’re new to the idea, check out this link. It’s a good place to get started. Also, FanGraphs just posted a two-part article on Win Values. It’s also a very good [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, fred lewis, hitting, pablo sandoval, position players, projections, randy winn, travis ishikawa, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 10, 2008
Today’s post is similar to yesterday’s post, I’m using the same plot format but instead of using 2008 data, I thought I would plot some projections for 2009. I’m a big fan of ZiPS — a free projection system from BBTF — and I think it’s one of the better systems out there. Again, we’ll [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged Edger Renteria, Emmanuel Burriss, hitting, john bowker, josh phelps, travis ishikawa, ZiPS
By Chris Quick on August 18, 2008
I’m drinking a jug of coffee and trying to turn on my brain. So, please, forgive me if my writing is a jumbled. I’m getting married in October and every weekend until the Big Day™ is filled with places to go, things to do, and people to see. But, despite my zombie-like state, a lot [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged buster posey, pablo sandoval, pitch counts, tim lincecum, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on August 13, 2008
Good lord, what a terrible game last night. In the 0.5 seconds it took for Brad Ausmus’ — hereby referred to as the evil one — line drive to reach Lincecum’s knee, every tragic career ending scenario flashed through my head. Watching Lincecum limp badly off the field as he leaned against our head trainer, [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged first base, john bowker, tim lincecum, travis ishikawa
By Chris Quick on June 19, 2008
Getting back to our review of the Giants minor league farm system, we find ourselves in the cool and crisp air of Connecticut. The Eastern League and Dodd Stadium — the home of the Defenders — has long had a well earned reputation of being a tough place to hit. The cold air, windy conditions, [...]
Posted in Giants, Minors | Tagged adam cowart, adam witter, Connecticut defenders, farm review, joe martinez, kelvin pichardo, sergio romo, travis ishikawa
