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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 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 March 9, 2009
(Click to enlarge) I’m still playing around with Baseball Projection.com’s Historical WAR Database, and it got me to thinking: What happened to Willie McCovey in 1964? In the graph above, you can see that McCovey’s age 26 season in ’64 was quite the drop off from his previous years when he really started to enter [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged giants history, WAR, willie mccovey, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on March 3, 2009
This might be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in baseball analysis in awhile. Chone Smith — developer of the CHONE projection system and BaseballProjection.com — has put together Wins Above Replacement Data for every player — position players for now, pitchers to be added soon — going back to 1954. This is seriously [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged CHONE, links, WAR, wins above replacement
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 February 25, 2009
A quick post today furthering some of the projections that we looked at yesterday. We’ll be looking at the distribution of wins above replacement for each team’s starting rotation and bullpen. San Francisco Giants The Giants are getting huge chunks of production from Lincecum, Cain, and Johnson. Sanchez isn’t too shabby either, he’s going to [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, CHONE, Diamondbacks, dodgers, Padres, pitching projection, Rockies, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on January 12, 2009
I’ve been playing around with EditGrid this morning and I made a few graphs relating to the 2009 Giants WAR projections. There really isn’t any new information presented in these graphs, but they might help some to see just where the wins are actually coming from. I like this pie chart because it shows — [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged 2009 team, aaron rowand, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, Edgar Renteria, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, projections, randy johnson, randy winn, tim lincecum, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on January 5, 2009
Is about +1.8-2 wins in 2009. In our 2009 team projections we learned that, as of now, the Giants are projected as an 82-83 win team. If Brian Sabean did decide to bring in Manny Ramirez to play left field — note, that I’m not saying he will because I doubt it will happen — [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged adam dunn, fred lewis, free agent, manny ramirez, pat burrell, WAR, wins above replacement
By Chris Quick on December 31, 2008
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Posted in Giants, Popular | Tagged 2009 team, barry zito, bob howry, brian wilson, jeremy affeldt, matt cain, noah lowry, projections, randy johnson, sergio romo, tim lincecum, WAR, wins above replacement
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
