The Giants summoned echoes of 2012 as they jumped on Rick Porcello for 6 runs in 3 innings before a long rain delay. Jake Peavy pitched before and after the delay and was nails for 6 innings allow just 2 unearned runs and the Giants win going away. Key Lines:
Joe Panik- 2 for 5. BA= .321. 2-Hit Joe gets his 2 hits. The internets is starting to buzz about him.
Pablo Sandoval- 2 for 5, HR(16). BA= .289. Pabs had hit a speed bump in his drive for .300 but he picked it up tonight and hit another dinger against the Tigers, who must be thinking about signing him as a FA this offseason.
Gregor Blanco- 2 for 4, 2B, 3B. BA= .263. Blanco's error from Colorado was reversed, but he made one tonight to end his string of 300+ errorless games. He still got his fWAR score up to 1.9 and climbing. Here are Blanco's stat lines from the last 3 seasons including this one:
2012: .244/.333/.344, 5 HR, 26 SB, 56 R, 34 RBI, 11.3% BB, 23% K, .318 BABIP, 2.3 fWAR, 453 PA.
2013: .265/.341/.350, 3 HR, 14 SB, 50 R, 41 RBI, 10.2% BB, 18.6% K, .328 BABIP, 2.9 fWAR, 511 PA.
2014: .263/.344/.376, 4 HR, 14 SB, 40 R, 32 RBI, 9.9% BB, 18.2 % K, .321 BABIP, 1.9 fWAR, 363 PA.
With almost a month left in this season, Blanco's dollar value to the Giants is $35 M. His total salary for the 3 seasons is $4.4 M for a surplus value of $30.4 M. He is coming into his final arbitration year and will be 31 years old next year.
Brandon Crawford- 3 for 4, Sac. BA= .234. Crawford is hitting .323 over his last 10 games.
Jake Peavy- 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K's. ERA= 4.01. Peavy was not going to let a chance for a W slip away in the rain. He preserved the bullpen in the process. Very gutsy start despite the large margin.
Tim Lincecum- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K. ERA= 4.67. Timmy looks like he's cleaned up his delivery a lot. He had excellent command and set the Tigers down in order in the 9'th on just 5 pitches, all strikes.
The Win kept the Giants at a 2 games deficit in the NL West to the Dodgers, who topped the D'Backs 2-1 and how bad are the D'Backs without Paul Goldschmidt anyway? Their lead for the top Wild Card playoff spot remained at 3 games over the Brewers, who beat the Cardinals in the first game of their NL Central showdown. The Giants lead the Braves by 4 games and the Pirates by 5.
Madison Bumgarner faces David Price in a day game today.
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Detroit might as well go after Lincecum as well as Pablo.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the stats on Blanco - fairly consistent and productive output. I remember first reading about him playing in the Venezuela winter ball, here. Almost 3 years later and the team and us fans have certainly enjoyed his contributions.
Of the top 50 fWAR OF's from this season, out of which Blanco ranks #49, he has the 25'th highest cumulative fWAR over the past 3 seasons. Of course, the #49 ranking for this year could go up if he continues to have a strong September.
DeleteThis means that over the past 3 seasons, Blanco would likely be the best OF on at least 5 teams in MLB.