(10-24-2023, 05:41 PM)BobK Wrote: Interesting that Matt Williams is a coach for the Padres. The Giants top priority now is a new hitting coach. Yes I saw the existing one has another year on his contract.
Giants finished 24th in OPS+ after finishing 15th last year and 4th the year before that. Our current hitting coach should be our former hitting coach ASAP.
As for pitching, the Giants finished 2nd in all of MLB for FIP in both 2021 and 2022, and 4th in MLB this year. Very good. Keep the pitching coach.
FIP was great, but team ERA was 12th in MLB this year, 13th last year and 2nd in MLB in ERA in 2021. Not only that, the Giants finished 5th in Rtot, the most comprehensive fielding statistic. 2nd in pitching, 4th in hitting, 5th in fielding. No wonder they won 107 games.
And then somehow, they got stupid. They forgot how to field. After finishing 5th in Rtot in 2021, they dropped precipitously to 28th in 2022 and 25th in 2023. No wonder they became a .500 team. They fell in all three major categories. Fielding was a disaster, and dragged down the pitching. But 24th in OPS+ in 2023? It's a miracle they won 79 games. Must have been the managing. Oh right, we fired that guy.
And just a fun little aside...in 2023, the Padres finished 5th in Rtot, 11th in FIP, 2nd in ERA, and 9th in OPS+. How does that team finish 82-80 -- and win 14 of their last 16 to get there -- finish in the top 1/3rd in baseball in all major categories, but at the 50th percentile for W/L? Normally, I'd point at the manager, but I can't really do that since he's now our manager...
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