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by xanthan on Oct 27, 2011 7:12 AM PDT reply actions

Panda’s getting eaten alive!

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by Roger on Oct 27, 2011 7:35 AM PDT reply actions

If the red circles had a tiny slice taken out they’d be pacmans and then Panda would be dead.

by Mrbasepaul on Oct 27, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow, this team sucks so hard at SS

And LOL Huff (with the required corollary of LOL Belt).

Where are all the “The offense was league average” people now? IN YOUR FACES!

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by can of corn on Oct 27, 2011 8:23 AM PDT reply actions

Belt wasn’t really the problem — he hit a .800 OPS while playing 1B; that was the league average for 1B in the NL in 2011. Huff, on the other hand, hit a .690 OPS while at 1B … that’s 26% below what the average 1B hit.

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by xanthan on Oct 27, 2011 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions

How much did Belt end up playing 1B (I ask, realizing I could find the answer quicker than waiting for you to tell me, and yet still, I’ll be lazy and wait).

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by Roger on Oct 27, 2011 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions

Appeared in 26 games, 87 plate appearances. Huff appeared in 120 games, 495 PAs. LOL HUFF!

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by xanthan on Oct 27, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions

The LOL Belt was because he didn’t get to play 1B while Huff was sucking hard at the corner.

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by can of corn on Oct 27, 2011 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

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by jctGamer on Oct 27, 2011 10:06 AM PDT reply actions

(second time reading this...)

Ohhhhhh! nice one

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Nov 3, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions

LOL indeed!

by chilibean_3 on Oct 27, 2011 10:27 AM PDT reply actions

Go RF!

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by j14 on Oct 27, 2011 10:58 AM PDT reply actions

Good stuff!

It’s amazing that this team was able to break .500 and remain in first place from May through mid-August. If you do a similar circle for the value of the team’s pitching it would be huge, green and cover the whole infield.

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by Fla-Giant on Oct 27, 2011 12:17 PM PDT reply actions

Very cool way of showing how absolutely shitty the Giants offense was in 2011.

by Mrbasepaul on Oct 27, 2011 1:24 PM PDT reply actions

I really want whoever was claiming that the Giants offense was “league average” to come defend that position here.

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by can of corn on Oct 27, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Who said that?

The last conversation I remember was that it was league average in 2010.

by Hyoton on Oct 27, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions

I think that there were some people saying it earlier, but it became pretty obvious once Posey went down and Huff continued to drink beer and eat fried chicken in the dugout that the offense was going to finish up being pretty low in the ability to produce runs compared to other teams category.

by Mrbasepaul on Oct 27, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions

I think that guy would take one look and say, “What? It’s just a bunch of colored dots! It doesn’t even have batting averages!”

Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.

by tobias on Nov 3, 2011 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions

To me, this season was almost an experiment in how much more important pitching is than hitting. The Giants were #2 in team ERA and second to last in runs scored. They ended up 5 games above .500. I wonder what their record would have been if they had been 2nd in the league in runs scored but 2nd to last in team ERA.

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by Yellow DubMarine on Oct 28, 2011 8:00 PM PDT reply actions

Well that would describe Colorado"’s season and they finished 16 games below .500. It’s close to Cincinati’s and they finished 4 games below .500. On the other hand San Diego had nearly the same season as us statistically with the 3rd best pitching staff and the next to the worst offense, and they were 20 games below .500. Which just goes to show…

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by Roger on Oct 28, 2011 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions

This is great

I’d love to see what other teams look like using this same model. Also, some kind of comparable thing with pitching staffs.

by Sigualicious on Oct 28, 2011 10:55 PM PDT reply actions

I can tell you what the league looked like

8 very small dots.

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by zenbitz on Oct 31, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions

But what color?!

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by Roger on Nov 1, 2011 5:26 AM PDT up reply actions

I like to think that when you hit the average, the dots just disappear.

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by howtheyscored on Nov 2, 2011 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Nice graph

but I can’t imagine why you didn’t depict those positions as the black holes that they were, sucking all success in with their gravitational pull.

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by natteringnabob on Oct 29, 2011 6:11 AM PDT reply actions

the subtitle is the best part

I would also love to see one of these for 2010

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by wjackalope on Nov 1, 2011 11:12 AM PDT reply actions

Shouldn’t the circles representing “below positional average” be black holes? At least SS and 1B should be represented that way

by TakeTheBlack on Nov 1, 2011 8:55 PM PDT reply actions

So you're saying that we should go with an all-glove shortstop who can't hit, right?

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by GiantPain on Nov 2, 2011 7:39 AM PDT reply actions