It was just reported that Jake Peavy had something heavy on his mind throughout spring training and the season: a crooked financial advisor stole around $15M from his investments.
These are just my opinions. I cannot promise that I will be perfect, but I can promise that I will seek to understand and illuminate whatever moves that the Giants make (my obsession and compulsion). I will share my love of baseball and my passion for the Giants. And I will try to teach, best that I can. Often, I tackle the prevailing mood among Giants fans and see if that is a correct stance, good or bad.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
2016 Draft: Giants Make Up For Loss of First Round Pick
This is probably the first draft in a decade where I didn't prepare by capturing mock drafts, know exactly when I need to start monitoring the draft, and follow along in some way, whether radio, internet, social media, or some combination. Part of it was the loss of the first round pick for signing Samardzija. Part of it was just a lot of overtime for work. Part of it was feeling pretty good about our crop of prospects. Mostly, I guess it was too much a combination of life intruding on my blog life, just didn't really have time for it this year.
The MLB has their usual list, available here. Tops picks are (links are to the MLB videos):
The MLB has their usual list, available here. Tops picks are (links are to the MLB videos):
- Round 2: Bryan Reynolds, CF
- Round 3: Heath Quinn, RF
- Round 4: Matt Krook, LHP
- Round 5: Ryan Howard, SS
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
2016 Giants: May PQS
This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of May 2016, PQS as defined in Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster annual book and they published the details here (unfortunately, they removed the article; this link gets you at least to the PQS definition, read down to middle for details). I wrote on this first in 2006 (wow, 11th year of this! 10th anniversary!) and have compiled their stats on a regular basis, so I'm continuing it this season for continuity and historical comparison (there is the "PQS" label that you can click to see the old posts on this). Regular readers can skip to the next section.
This is the Quality Start with a sabermetric DIPS twist, and it gets really easy to calculate once you get used to it. I don't think it's the end all or be all, but then nothing really is that. It is, as I like to say, another piece of the puzzle. A dominating start is scored a 4 or 5 and a disaster start is scored a 0 or 1. DOM% is the percentage of starts that are dominating, DIS% is the percentage of starts that are disasters (any start under 5.0 IP is automatically a 0, or disaster).
This is the Quality Start with a sabermetric DIPS twist, and it gets really easy to calculate once you get used to it. I don't think it's the end all or be all, but then nothing really is that. It is, as I like to say, another piece of the puzzle. A dominating start is scored a 4 or 5 and a disaster start is scored a 0 or 1. DOM% is the percentage of starts that are dominating, DIS% is the percentage of starts that are disasters (any start under 5.0 IP is automatically a 0, or disaster).