Continuing on my thoughts regarding the starting rotation, I look into what we can expect and why I feel optimistic about the 2019 season.
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, September 20, 2018
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Your 2019 Giants: 6 Man Rotation
With my thoughts in my other post about the potential rotation crunch in 2019, should the Giants sign Derek Holland (as I hope that they do), I realized that perhaps there is a solution: 6-man Rotation.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Your 2018 Giants: Giants Offensive Offense
I see a lot of complaints about the Giants offense, so here's my post with my opinions on what is happening. And, of course, other random tangential thoughts.
And, of course, it took too long to finish. The data is as of games to September 9th.
And, of course, it took too long to finish. The data is as of games to September 9th.
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
2018 Giants: August PQS, newPQS, ogcPQS
This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of August 2018, 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.