š sightingš„ @NBCSGiants pic.twitter.com/3CTgx927N4— KNBR (@KNBR) April 24, 2024
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 04:07 (three weeks ago) link
Webb was in a groove tonight, funny because I was worried about him after the first two starts this year, lol
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 04:08 (three weeks ago) link
Webb is steady af, I was thinking about him specifically because of how efficient his starts are. Andrew Bailey is a miracle worker.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 04:10 (three weeks ago) link
Uhhhh snell placed on 15 day IR
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:54 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/giants-blake-snell-injured-list-adductor-strain.html
Saw that. Probably not surprising given he started late and didnāt ramp up enough.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:22 (three weeks ago) link
Read something last week that none of the seven biggest MLB contracts belong to Boras' clients whereas 10 years ago, he owned 9 of the top 10.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:51 (three weeks ago) link
Last night's game sounds like a classic but I missed as I was at Slowdive.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 April 2024 19:42 (two weeks ago) link
PATRICK BAILEY CALLED GAME ā¼ pic.twitter.com/vB8jOVXkEk— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) April 27, 2024
Patrick Bailey made history with the walk-off blast, becoming the first catcher in MLB history to turn a double play, catch a shutout and hit a walk-off home run in the same game, per OptaSTATS.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 April 2024 19:46 (two weeks ago) link
This was nice, I like it when people are classy:
"There's some really good people here." Joey Bart, now on the Pirates, tells @PavlovicNBCS how much he appreciates his time with the Giants pic.twitter.com/faLoEkJcHt— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) April 27, 2024
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:47 (two weeks ago) link
xp that's some reaching but I guess with baseball there's such a huge sample size of games it's hard not to be surprised when the first of anything happens.
― octobeard, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:58 (two weeks ago) link
xp it wasnāt him sneering about him being DFAed. Giants fans were gloating for whatever reason. Good for him.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 27 April 2024 22:16 (two weeks ago) link
6 - 4 on this home stand with two series wins and one split. One month in and one game under .500, will take it. No help from Snell but still doing okay.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 28 April 2024 23:18 (two weeks ago) link
Was watching Lee the other day, his batting approach is rather unique so I looked up his first 5 weeks of MLB stats.
He primarily bats lead off so you'd expect him to walk a lot... yet he doesn't: 7.2% BB/PA.
That said he doesn't strike out a tremendous amount either: 8.6% K/PA
His MLB OBP (.304) is tracking about 3/4ths of his KBO career (.407), which is worrying enough but his power has simply evaporated in MLB (.071 ISO, .317 SLG) compared to his .340/.407/.491/.898 KBO career line.
He's performing barely replacement level which is a tough swallow for an untradeable OF due to make >$20M/yr in the next 5 years.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:57 (one week ago) link
You could also calm down about a guy adjusting to a league thatās notably more difficult than the one he came from *checks notes* just over a month into his MLB career
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:01 (one week ago) link
The Giants big offseason signings fWAR descending:
Hicks: 0.7Chapman: 0.3Lee: 0.2Snell: 0.1Soler: 0.0Tom Murphy (?): -0.3Ray: n/a
Totalling $354M spent for a cumulative 1.0 WAR.
For comparison, the Giants are paying Patrick Bailey $748k and getting 1.1 WAR from him.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:10 (one week ago) link
Itās a month into the season
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:13 (one week ago) link
fyi Iām not going to shed a tear about Charles Johnson spending money on players rather than donating it to Christian extremist superpacs or whatever else he does with his fortune
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:15 (one week ago) link
Yeah no, seem to recall a survey of MLB GMs that rated Lee's contract the worst signing of the offseason. š¬
Checked his savant page and it was a sea of blue as expected.
...but I'm here for the optimism!
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:15 (one week ago) link
I donāt mean to be mean but who gives a fuck? Itās one month in.Suggest you see an opticians if this is āa sea of blueāhttps://i.postimg.cc/dtbm4H5X/IMG-0373.png
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:18 (one week ago) link
Well yeah, for all the chasing after free agents and losing and then making questionable panic signings the core problem with the Giants is an inability to identify and/or develop young hitters. Hard to buy your way out of mediocrity.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 6 May 2024 03:52 (one week ago) link
Giants havenāt developed an actual slugger type since ooooh Posey? Belt? That seems common for lots of teams around the league though. They develop pitching or hitters, but usually not both.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 6 May 2024 05:26 (one week ago) link
#CaptSaveAHoo š
(truly terrible joke, I am in transit back home and will address Lee's blurple statcast sometime later this week!(?) )
Sorry gyac, full plate atm, wish I possessed the bandwidth for daily content creation š
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:26 (one week ago) link
Pat the Bat & Andrew Baggarly both agree with me!https://theathletic.com/5480930/2024/05/09/sf-giants-jung-hoo-lee-season-start/?source=user_shared_article
The league-average whiff rate on four-seam fastballs is 21.8 percent. Leeās rate of 6.9 percent on four-seamers is the fourth lowest among 76 players who have been thrown at least 175 of them. More notably, Leeās whiff rate on four-seamers at 95 mph or faster is just 3.1 percent. Thatās the second-lowest rate among 207 major leaguers who have seen at least 40 such pitches, behind only Clevelandās Steven Kwan (who hasnāt swung and missed at any of them).Leeās overall contact rate of 91.3 percent is the third best in the majors, trailing only Kwan and Luis Arraez, the two-time batting champ whom the San Diego Padres just acquired from Miami for four prospects. (One of those prospects, minor-league relief pitcher Woo Suk Go, is Leeās brother-in-law.)Leeās batting average on all fastballs is .241. Based on the quality of contact, though, he should be hitting close to .300 on heaters.All of this to say: high heat isnāt knocking the bat out of his hands. Which is important. Because he doesnāt walk much (which is partly a function of his high contact rate), his on-base skills are heavily reliant on his ability to hit for average.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link
The Giants just played 16 games in a row and went 6 - 10.
They are 1 - 5 against the Dodgers, so far, this year.
IL lost on this stretch:
Patrick Bailey x 2Jung Hoo LeeMichael Conforto Tom Murphy Nick AsmedAustin Slater Jorge Solar
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 May 2024 04:49 (yesterday) link
Jorge Soler took on-field BP for the first time since going on the IL, but this happened: pic.twitter.com/cSHMjDoPom— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) May 14, 2024
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 May 2024 04:50 (yesterday) link
Winning one game against the Dodgers was my 2024 WS Buster Hug. That's how low the expectations are for me
― octobeard, Thursday, 16 May 2024 08:08 (yesterday) link
Tom Murphy being injured is like the weather changing - inevitable - but Jung Hoo Leeās injury is really bad. Did they confirm heāll miss the rest of the season yet?
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 16 May 2024 08:21 (yesterday) link
Had the chance to go to a couple games this week, and yikes, this team is gonna get worse before they get better. Bleak days on the horizon, shades of 2017 vibez.
former KBO MVP Jung Hoo Lee probably won't play until this time next year, maybe later (he flew to Dr. Death aka Neil ElAttrache's office for an emergency appointment today). As forgettable as his season has been, he could be a dark horse when he returns as expectations will be incredibly low... he was contributing at the same level as all the promoted River Cats who are on the roster now.
here's a quicky I did on Lee's statcast, highlighting what I, Stephen Q. Shasta, personally think is important (and not) in terms of a $20M+/yr offensive centerpiece signing:
https://i.imgur.com/SN4jj4U.png
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 May 2024 04:45 (five hours ago) link
Heard a fan sitting next to me excited about Snell's dominant rehab start... so I looked it up: 46 pitches against a bunch of teenagers with .600 OPS in single A:
https://www.milb.com/gameday/ports-vs-giants/2024/05/12/756701/final/box
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 May 2024 04:50 (five hours ago) link