Saturday, August 23, 2014

Your 2014 Giants: Beating the Better Teams

One thing I've been seeing in the media lately is "the Giants got to start beating the winning teams."  Thought I would look into that.

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When it comes to information, I love our beat writers.  But analysis?  Not always.

So lets look at the latest:  beating winning teams.  Writers have been exhorting the Giants to start beating the winning teams, making that a key thing that needs to turn around.  Not really, it's actually beating losing teams where they need to pick things up.

Here is the NL teams record against winning and losing teams at the start of play today:

Rk Tm W L W-L% 1Run ≥.500 ▾ <.500 last10 last20
1 MIL 71 56 .559 18-15 33-27 38-29 6-4 12-8
2  STL 69 57 .548 22-19 36-35 33-22 7-3 13-7
3  SFG 67 59 .532 15-19 28-28 39-31 5-5 10-10
4  CIN 61 67 .477 18-31 39-40 22-27 1-9 7-13
5  MIA 63 63 .500 32-19 28-30 35-33 6-4 10-10
6 LAD 72 57 .558 23-17 30-33 42-24 5-5 10-10
7  ATL 67 61 .523 21-20 31-34 36-27 7-3 9-11
8  PIT 65 62 .512 25-22 32-37 33-25 3-7 8-12
9 WSN 73 53 .579 20-18 27-34 46-19 10-0 15-5
10  SDP 59 67 .468 23-18 34-41 25-26 5-5 12-8
Avg 62 64 .494 20-20 30-38 32-26 5-5 9-10
11  NYM 60 68 .469 19-25 35-48 25-20 4-6 8-12
12  CHC 55 72 .433 15-20 28-42 27-30 5-5 10-10
13  PHI 56 71 .441 20-20 31-47 25-24 4-6 9-11
14  ARI 53 75 .414 23-22 25-49 28-26 2-8 6-14
15  COL 50 76 .397 14-19 21-46 29-30 5-5 7-13
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/23/2014.

As you can see, the Giants actually has the third best record in the NL against winning teams, at .500

The real problem is that LA kicks butt against losing teams while the Giants have merely been good (if you view the original table, they are actually 5th in the NL).  Whereas the Bridegrooms are 18 games above .500 playing losing teams, the Giants are merely 8 games over .500 against losing teams.

That is where the Giants need to improve at, though it would be nice to beat up on winning teams too.  But most NL teams have a hard time beating winning teams (which to me implies that the AL winning teams are kicking butt in the NL) so urging them to beat winning teams is actually self-defeating, winning teams are hard to beat, it is the losing teams that they need to beat up badly.

Particularly since the Giants have 15 games against winning team and 21 games left against losing teams.   And even more particularly, the Dodgers only have 9 games against winning teams and 23 games left against losing teams.  If the Dodgers keep their pace, they will end up around 90-72 (4-5 against winning, 13-10 against losing).  If the Giants keep their pace against winning teams, going 8-7, then they need to go 15-6 against the losing teams.

Or, if we do take the tack that they should improve against winning teams, with 6 games left against the Dodgers, that is where they need to improve their game, and win at least 5 games, which would gain four games of the lead off them, meaning the Dodgers would need to beat the other winning team 3-0 to keep pace (if the Giants win 4 games, the Dodgers only need to play 2-1 against the Nats, and that's in LA).  That would obviously ease the pressure to win a lot of games against the other teams.

Another way to look at it is to say the Giants need to beat their NL West brethren.  While 8-5 against Arizona, they are only 6-6 against San Diego and 4-7 against Colorado.  Only 7-6 with LA.  With 21 games left against them, the Giants need to beat up on them.  Six games with D-backs, 4-2 (12-7).  Seven games with Padres, 5-2 (11-8).  Eight games with Rockies, 5-3 (9-10).  And Dodgers 4-2 (11-8).  That would be 18-9, and then the Giants only need to be 5-4 against Nats, Brewers, and Tigers, which is doable.  Still, 18-9 is no easy task, they need to take it to the NL West if they hope to win the division title.

It's not easy any way you cut it.  But beating losing teams seem to be the best path to winning the division title.  At minimum, it looks much more doable than beating winning teams, particularly since there is not as many of them left for the Giants to play.  Of course, it would help a lot if they would just "Beat LA!"  But they can be tough and probably positioned to have Kershaw pitch against us (yep, he's scheduled to pitch the rubber match in both series, so going 4-2 against them is a pretty tough task, let alone 5-1; 3-3 looks much more probable).

What would be great is if the Giants can put up a great stretch of pitching, both starting and relief, now, like they did in 2010.  The rotation has been slumping relatively over the past 30 games or so, they need to start bringing their A-game.  Bumgarner has, actually, and both Vogelsong and Peavy have been pretty good too.  It is Hudson, who has struggled for a long stretch now, and Lincecum, who has struggled since he pitched in relief in that long extra-innings game, who have to start shaping up and start delivering good dominating starts.  

If these two guys joined the others, that should ignite a nice winning streak, as the offense have averaged 5.6 runs per game in the last 8 games, after initially struggling still after Pagan returned to the lineup, but they are on fire now.  One by one, batters have started hitting, and hitting a lot.  Heck, Pagan himself hasn't really hit for that much yet, if he and Pence (who has also been struggling) started hitting, imagine how many more runs they would score then!

These are the keys that I can see for the Giants to end up the division winner.  Beating the losing teams bloody, like they were earlier this season.  The starting pitching needs to return to their goodness in May when all five starters were bringing it almost every game, particularly Hudson, who appears to have fallen into a dead arm period, he's not striking out as much as he was earlier, and Lincecum, who appears to have hurt his mechanics by pitching in relief and he has not figured out the problem yet.  And it would help if Pagan and Pence started hitting atop the lineup.  But just beating winning teams is not going to do it for them, unless they are beating up specifically on the Bridegrooms and taking at least 5 of 6 games.

But they can win even if they don't beat LA and play them to a standstill, if they can whip the losing teams they still have games with, in particular, the NL West, whom they have not played very well against so far this season.  That could make the break the season right there.

3 comments:

  1. Nice post OGC. I think at this point in the season we have to beat LA head to head to have a chance though. Last year the Giants missed easy opps by fumbling to the Marlins and the Mets. This year we have similar fumbles. Each year is different... But some common threads are there. Hoping like hell for a 2010 type of September!

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  2. I admire your analysis. At this time of year, it is not your overall win percentage in remaining games, but whom you beat and whom you do not. It gets much harder unless we can gain some ground on LA head to head. But with so many games left against the west, and Az, Colo and SD being weaker teams (especially with Colorado's injuries) we need to make hay to get into the playoffs.

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  3. Thanks for the comments! Yeah, beating LA is the key, but with Kershaw pitching two of the six games, it will be a tough road to win the division. Most likely we split these games unless our pitching gets better, but right now, Hudson and Lincecum have hit the skids.

    Hopefully this skipped start for Lincecum works as well as it did in the past for Cain, Tim himself, and Sanchez previously. Huddy probably could use a breather too, only 2 DOM starts out of his last 8, that's replacement level starting pitching if he weren't avoiding the DIS starts too. That's allowed the team to go 4-4 in those starts, which is good for how bad we have played during that period.

    Yeah, looks like we are fumbling the Rockies this year. That 3-game sweep that they hung on us when we could have swept them seems to be the crack in the dam that broke the team. If we could just change that series to the sweep we should have had, we would only be two games behind LA right now and lead with a nice cushion in the Wild Card.

    Yeah, we need a 2010 type of September, where the pitchers went wildly dominant and shut everybody down for around 3 weeks or so. Though I wouldn't fault them if they just did it for the rest of the season. :^)

    I wonder what the Giants might do if Petit continues to dominate but Linecum also looks like he's ready to return to the rotation? I had been wondering about a 6-man rotation forever, and really, the way teams handle pitchers today, I think a 6-man rotation to get through August when there are so few off-days would help a lot to keep the 5-man rotation fresher into the dog days of the season. But I've pretty much given up on it happening. Bochy likes to keep the winning going, so if Petit is pitching well and winning, Lincecum probably will be used to relieve.

    Or maybe they can give breathers to starters this way. This time, Lincecum replaced by Petit. Next round, Lincecum replaces Hudson to give him a breather. Then Hudson comes in to give Vogelsong a breather? He has had a dead arm period late in the season in previous years, but hasn't done that yet, but Vogie is such a bulldog that it's probably better to leave him in.

    Yeah, we need to make hay with the losing teams, starting with the Rockies here. They need to stand up, now!

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