With the Giants holding the second pick overall in the June draft, only a couple of weeks away, I thought I would go through some mock drafts, and discuss a few possibilities. I will probably write up on the final mocks just before the draft.
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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Monday, May 21, 2018
2018 Giants: April PQS, newPQS, ogcPQS
This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of April 2018 (also includes March starts), 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, 13th year of this!) 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.
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.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Your 2018 Giants: Striking Out
The Giants just set a new record for strikeouts in a series, by a lot, in the Phillies series. I thought I would compare key Giants players contact rate and strikeout percentage between 2017 and 2018.
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
My 2018 Giants: When Will This End? Out with Cueto, In with Suarez
As I assume you all know, Cueto was placed on the DL with elbow soreness, and Suarez was brought up to pitch in Tuesday's game, replacing him, as the DH to make up the rained out Dodger's game early in April was played on Saturday, and forced the Giants to bring up someone to keep the rotation going with the normal days of rest.
Unfortunately, the Giants were mum about what this could mean for Cueto. However, it was noted that Cueto is going to see Tommy John Surgery creator, Dr. Andrews, for a second opinion, as we speak, so it has reached that point. Ironically, Will Smith just returned from his TJS today with a good 2-K shutout inning.
As always, thank you to Baseball-Reference.com for their data, I would not be able to do any of my work without their wonderful database.
Unfortunately, the Giants were mum about what this could mean for Cueto. However, it was noted that Cueto is going to see Tommy John Surgery creator, Dr. Andrews, for a second opinion, as we speak, so it has reached that point. Ironically, Will Smith just returned from his TJS today with a good 2-K shutout inning.
As always, thank you to Baseball-Reference.com for their data, I would not be able to do any of my work without their wonderful database.
newPQS Doesn't Work Well So I'm Creating ogcPQS
I'm still not happy with the new PQS methodology. For me, the idea of this methodology is to separate the good from the average and the bad. I'm going to have to go my own way with this going forward. I will get to the April edition of PQS later this week, maybe next.