Official 2012 San Francisco Giants Season Thread (94-68) World Series Champions

[iamyourfather]

Has any Giants fan from the bay made a trip to San Diego to watch the giants? Im planning on going at the end of September and want some advice on where to stay etc.

i might be goin end of september too.. my sister used to live in SD and says that these days theres more Giants fans @ padres games than padres fans hahaha

stay @ hotel circle, they got a good train system in sd u can take the train straight to the ball park

 

[rawex5]

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

That's not fair :x

 

[rawex5]

Alex Pavlovic‏@AlexPavlovic

Giants announce Christian put on DL with left wrist sprain. OF Francisco Peguero recalled from Fresno.

 

[rawex5]

Amy Gutierrez‏@AmyGGiants

8.23.12 #sfgiants lineup: Pagan CF Scutaro 2B Sandoval 3B Pence RF Belt 1B Sanchez C Blanco LF Crawford SS Zito P


I don't ******g get it. I don't care that it's a righty pitching. Arias is on fire right now and should be playing. If he went 0-4 today, then, ok, bench him the next game.

 

[iamyourfather]

gona watch the Giants in wrigley next friday 

glad to hear cubs fans aren't as violent as white sox fans. 

 

[lightweight champion]

That's probably because the Cubs are everybody's lovable losers.

Sidenote: Congratulations to Petaluma for reaching the U.S. Title Game on Saturday

 

[lazyj10]

Any time CA can dominate Texas it's a good day.

 

[rawex5]

My hatred for Crawford meets no bounds. He ******g sucks.

 

[lb510]

Only Crawford would hit into a line out double play to end the inning

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

 

[ricerocket1]

zito the magician.

 

[rawex5]

It's passable that Pence is in a major slump because the team is winning. Hopefully he gets hot late. Or just keep bunting.

He needs to pick it up.

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

Zito owns the Braves?

 

[rawex5]

Zito. Unbelievable.

 

[ricerocket1]

zito might be closing this isht out

 

[lazyj10]

Never would I have imagined Lincecum being our worst pitcher

 

[nothingtol0se]

angel and marco have been fantastic in the 1-2 spot.

 

[ricerocket1]

this bullpen is disgusting.

 

[nothingtol0se]

 

[chris82790]

Thought Zito should've been pulled after 8 but we got the win.

This bullpen by committee is a ticking time bomb and it's going to blow up in our faces eventually.

 

[TheGodFresco]

Was at the game, great to be at Zito got 4 standing ovations

Im interested to see how Peguero plays, dude was playing well in AAA

 

[Nawzlew]

 

[lightweight champion]

Thought Zito should've been pulled after 8 but we got the win.
This bullpen by committee is a ticking time bomb and it's going to blow up in our faces eventually.

It really is. Having to use multiple guys in the pen is going to wear them down the last couple weeks of the season. Let's hope we have sizable lead in the West by that time.

 

[rawex5]

25. The worst player in baseball is …

We always save the worst for last because sabermetrics isn't always about celebrating achievements and accomplishments. Numbers give us something tangible with which we can judge a player against his peers, against his predecessors, against Babe Ruth if we truly want. The preferred tool today is Wins Above Replacement. FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference both have proprietary versions; each is marred by its inclusion of defensive metrics but good enough to give a decent idea of what's what.

And they agree: The worst player in baseball this year is Kansas City outfielder Jeff Francoeur.

FanGraphs says he has been worth -1.7 WAR, which means by using a replacement-level player – some bum from Triple-A – the Royals actually would have won two more games. B-R is even harsher: The site has Francoeur at -3.0 WAR, which ranks as the 11th-worst season for an offensive player since 1901.

With a dreadful August and September, Francoeur could threaten the season both sites agree is the worst ever: Jerry Royster's 1977 with Atlanta, a -3.7 FanGraphs and -4.1 B-R debacle. The utilityman hit .216/.278/.288 and, the metrics say, played brutal defense. Francoeur isn't that bad, at .240/.287/.372, with a major league-leading 14 outfield assists, but as Wil Myers sits at Triple-A with a .311/.389/.603 line, 35 home runs and the title of best hitting prospect in the minors, it cannot be anything short of maddening for Royals fans to swallow where part of the cost of their ticket will go.

Kansas City owes Francoeur $6.75 million in 2013.