[Mick]

The Giants are exactly halfway through their season at 39-42. Last year's team, under the old regime without $400 million worth of free agents, was 45-36, or three games under .500 vs. nine games over .500. Still, the Giants are just three games out of the last wild card spot.

Luciano, Bailey, Ramos, Sabol and Wade are all having excellent seasons (OPS+ over 131). Fitzgerald, Wisely and Villar are having very good seasons (OPS+ between 112-118). Yaz, Conforto, Soler, and Chapman are slightly above average (101-107 OPS+). Flores, Estrada, Slater, Ahmed, Matos, Casali and Schmitt are all between 80 and 89 OPS+. Some of them are showing signs of picking it up. Soler and Snell have always done better in the second half than the first half (hard to do worse, re: Snell).

Giants just went above MLB average for runs per game (4.38 to 4.36). Their collective OPS+ is 105, which is better than it was a few weeks ago. Hitting and scoring is picking up.

Pitching...not so much, reflecting the injury situation. Runs allowed per game is 4.73, 23rd in MLB. WHIP is even worse, 27th in MLB. Two good signs...most of their pitchers will be back over the next month. Harrison, Ray, Snell, Cobb, Winn...all are making progress, some are close. Other good sign is that FIP is 11th in MLB, not bad. 

The dichotomy between FIP/ERA and WHIP is because Giants fielding is dead last in the league (-44 Rtot), despite having four excellent fielders in Chapman, Ahmed, Bailey and Yastrzemski. Dodgers are +44 Rtot...an 88 run difference over the first half of the season.

Last stats: Giants total WAR is -2.4, 20th in MLB. Here it is by position:

3B, 2nd overall in MLB
RF, 4th
Catcher, 6th
1B, 9th
CF, 12th
LF, 16th
DH, 20th
Relief pitching, 22nd
2B, 23rd
SS, 24th
Starting pitching, 27th

Oddly, pinch hitting is T2 overall.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagu...2024.shtml

[Mick]

The Giants are exactly halfway through their season at 39-42. Last year's team, under the old regime without $400 million worth of free agents, was 45-36, or three games under .500 vs. nine games over .500. Still, the Giants are just three games out of the last wild card spot.

Luciano, Bailey, Ramos, Sabol and Wade are all having excellent seasons (OPS+ over 131). Fitzgerald, Wisely and Villar are having very good seasons (OPS+ between 112-118). Yaz, Conforto, Soler, and Chapman are slightly above average (101-107 OPS+). Flores, Estrada, Slater, Ahmed, Matos, Casali and Schmitt are all between 80 and 89 OPS+. Some of them are showing signs of picking it up. Soler and Snell have always done better in the second half than the first half (hard to do worse, re: Snell).

Giants just went above MLB average for runs per game (4.38 to 4.36). Their collective OPS+ is 105, which is better than it was a few weeks ago. Hitting and scoring is picking up.

Pitching...not so much, reflecting the injury situation. Runs allowed per game is 4.73, 23rd in MLB. WHIP is even worse, 27th in MLB. Two good signs...most of their pitchers will be back over the next month. Harrison, Ray, Snell, Cobb, Winn...all are making progress, some are close. Other good sign is that FIP is 11th in MLB, not bad. 

The dichotomy between FIP/ERA and WHIP is because Giants fielding is dead last in the league (-44 Rtot), despite having four excellent fielders in Chapman, Ahmed, Bailey and Yastrzemski. Dodgers are +44 Rtot...an 88 run difference over the first half of the season.

Last stats: Giants total WAR is -2.4, 20th in MLB. Here it is by position:

3B, 2nd overall in MLB
RF, 4th
Catcher, 6th
1B, 9th
CF, 12th
LF, 16th
DH, 20th
Relief pitching, 22nd
2B, 23rd
SS, 24th
Starting pitching, 27th

Oddly, pinch hitting is T2 overall.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagu...2024.shtml