Tag: S.F. Giants
The Giants’ Bold Plan for 2018: Devise a Series of Inept Distractions
We have breaking news. The San Francisco Giants’ historically catastrophic 98-loss 2017 season wasn’t simply about wins and losses. And…
Read more »The 2017 World Series Presents a Confusing Mathematical Conundrum
Just as the 2017 World Series begins we find ourselves faced with a troublesome statistical problem, which could just make…
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Dusty Baker’s Managerial Resume Continues its Relentless Freefall
Responsibility for success or failure in professional sports can cut a fine line. Is it defined by the quality of…
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SF Giants Executives Laser-Focused on Team’s #1 Critical Need: Explaining Away 2017
The San Francisco Giants organization is planning on big changes happening in 2018. Without actually doing very much. Following the…
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Giants Use Unique Strategy to Go After Japanese Superstar Shohei Otani
Just about everyone knows who the number one free agent will be this off-season: twenty-three-year-old Japanese baseball mega-star Shohei Otani….
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In the Dominant National League West, Here’s the Next Powerhouse Team
With two weeks to go in the 2017 season, three of the four National League teams with the best winning…
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The First Giants: The Cure for a Losing Streak is Always the Phillies
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had suffered blowout losses in five straight games to close…
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Predicting the 2017 Giants: The “Who Knew?” Defense
When a baseball season goes as badly for a team as the 2017 MLB season has gone for the San…
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The Sports Daily September 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Curious about which MLB teams are climbing up the ladder and which teams are in catastrophic freefall? And why? Now…
Read more »How Flawed Free Agents, Poor Trades, and Cheap Player Signings Helped Derail the San Francisco Giants
Precious Resources: Money vs IP and ABs Bad multi-year Major League Baseball player contracts are easy to spot several years…
Read more »What the SF Giants Will Look Like on Opening Day 2018
The San Francisco Giants will close their disappointing 2017 season in six weeks with a complex, and contradictory, set of…
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Finding Positives (and Negatives) in the Dark Malaise of a Bad Baseball Season
Some Good Numbers It seems like the 2017 season for the Giants has been an unending litany of negative performance…
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The First Giants: The Gothams Get Stomped in New England
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had just finished up a home stand that featured a…
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San Francisco Giants Fumble a Punt at the Non-waiver Trade Deadline
For a professional baseball franchise that has been on the down-trend the past three years, the effort shown by the…
Read more »Aiming at October: MLB Second Half Bullet Points
We’ll start with some distressing news about the San Francisco Giants (surprise). After that, (and brace yourselves for this) we’ll…
Read more »If Things look Bad Now– A Look at the Future of the San Francisco Giants Organization
As the Giants ownership and team management look beyond their historically dismal 2017 season, what is the expectation for 2018…
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The First Giants: The Gothams battle the Buffalo Bisons
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they were finally playing good baseball, but found themselves still mired…
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Winter is Coming: The Giants Face Critical Decisions at the Trade Deadline
For the San Francisco Giants the 2017 off-season starts right now. The Giants can’t sit back and wait until the…
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The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Behold The Sports Daily July 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog Burning…
Read more »SF Giants Confused About 2017 Freefall, “Quality” Starts
In Baseball You Are What You Pretend Not to Be Are the 2017 San Francisco Giants as bad as their…
Read more »The First Giants: The NY Gothams Return Home from a Hard Road
Last week, we saw the struggling New York Gothams conclude the first road trip in the 135-year history of the…
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The Top Three Myths About the Giants Disastrous 2017 Season
As of Monday June 19, 2017 it has become clear that the San Francisco Giants are no longer simply an…
Read more »The Giants Front Office is Upset
Over the past three years, the San Francisco Giants appear to have settled comfortably into their well-earned identity as an…
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The First Giants: The Gothams vs. “One Arm” in Week 3 of the 1883 Season
As we discussed last week, the New York Gothams began their first road trip in franchise history in the second…
Read more »Good News/Bad News: As the Magic Deflates, the Giants Turn to Minor League Players
First the good news. With a 23-34 record just past the one third point of the 2017 MLB season the…
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The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings
Here are The Sports Daily June 2017 MLB Power Rankings, hosted by Joseph Coblitz of the excellent Cleveland Indians blog…
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The First Giants: The Gothams Go On the Road in Week Two of the 1883 Season
I’ve been reading Edward Achorn’s 2013 book about the 1883 baseball season, The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers,…
Read more »SF Giants Finally Winning Games But Catching Up is Hard to Do
It took a quarter of the 2017 MLB season for the San Francisco Giants to find that elusive sweet stride…
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The First Giants: Week One of the Gotham’s 1883 Premier Season
Last week, we discussed the first game in the history of the Giants baseball franchise. That was May 1, 1883,…
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