Player Profile #51: Matt Cain | SP | SFG
Forgive the overused cliche, but there are three certainties in life: death, taxes and Matt Cain outperforming his peripherals. It’s gotten to the point where anyone who doubts Cain just looks foolish. He’s finished five straight seasons with ERAs noticeably lower than his FIPs, and in each of those five seasons he’s pitched at least 200 innings. His walk rate has...
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Video: 49ers, Giants tee off against each other at Pebble Beach
Matt Cain leads the Giants and Alex Smith the 49ers in charity event.
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Video: 49ers, Giants tee off against each other at Pebble Beach
Matt Cain leads the Giants and Alex Smith the 49ers in charity event.
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Video: 49ers, Giants tee off against each other at Pebble Beach
Matt Cain leads the Giants and Alex Smith the 49ers in charity event.
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Video: 49ers, Giants tee off against each other at Pebble Beach
Matt Cain leads the Giants and Alex Smith the 49ers in charity event.
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Matt Cain Unloading S.F. Bro Pad With Ikea Kitchen At Loss; $1.8MM
Matt Cain is due for a pay raise after the 2012 season and he’ll either get a huge contract from the Giants or sign elsewhere as a free agent. So what’s the logical move at this point? Sell that $1.8mm house you’ve been slumming in while playing in San Fran. He’ll make $15,000,000 this season and will probably demand at least that over 6-7 years in his next...
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Cain puts Bay Area home up for sale. Is writing on the wall?
Zoinks! There’s news out of the Huffington Post this morning that San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain—who is eligible to become a free agent after this season—has put his Bay Area home up for sale.
Unless Cain and his family are just looking to upgrade (after all, he is getting quite the pay hike in the final year of his contract), this could very well be reason...
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San Francisco Giants 2012 FanFest—a big yawn
If standing in line for three hours to get an autograph is your thing, then no doubt you had a great time at the San Francisco Giants’ annual FanFest today.
I went the past two years and I can tell you from my own experience, it ain’t all that.
Today’s event drew an estimated 36,000 fans, most of them wearing Panda hats and Tim Lincecum or Buster Posey jerseys....
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Complete xBA and xBABIP Data Now Available!
At the request of some of our readers, we’ve finally posted all of our xBA and xBABIP data from the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. You can access the data by clicking the link on the navigation bar at the top of the page, or you can just click here: xBA/xBABIP by Year.
In case you’re not familiar with xBA or xBABIP, they’re stats we’ve developed here at Baseball Professor....
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Interview: Ron Wotus
I asked Ron Wotus about the Giants’ defense. Specifically, I wondered how much of their recent success was due to keen defensive positioning and how much was just the result of talented defensive players. I also asked him about how the Giants utilize video and such in organizing their defense. What follows is a transcript of the interview…
Giants Nirvana: In the past...
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2012 Top Prospects #1
Not too much pressure, Gary Brown. None at all.
Look, I’m not trying to say that the Giants are in a rebuilding mode (They’re clearly not. They are built to win in 2012…), but the performance of certain prospects are as important this year for the immediate future as they’ve ever been.
Two-thirds of the expected starting outfield are free agents, in Angel...
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Giants prepared to keep both aces
Contrary to widespread assumptions, the Giants can afford to retain Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain long term, general manager Brian Sabean said Friday.
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2012 Media Day highlights
The San Francisco Giants opened their clubhouse doors to the media today to allow an inside look at your 2012 Gigantes and I’ve got all the highlights for yo here in one post!
New marketing campaign
The new slogan for this year’s team is “Let’s Get Back Together.” For the past two days, a select number of fans (totaling about 500) have been camped out...
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Could the Mets Benefit from a Crowded Free Agent Pitching Market in 2013?
The Mets rotation, for better or for worse, is set for 2012: Santana (or replacement), Pelfrey, Dickey, Gee and Niese. The Mets also look between the end of this year and 2014 to add several young pitchers, like Familia, Harvey, Wheeler and maybe Mejia.
So I wonder if the Mets could benefit from what will be a crowded All-Star pitching Free Agent market next season. With Edwin Jackson...
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SF Giants Rumors: Cain Deal Could Be In The Works, Pill Could Land Last Roster Spot
Chris Haft of MLB.com answers fans questions in his inbox article. Haft expects Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants to reach a deal during Spring Training.
This would put a lot of Giants fans at ease since Tim Lincecum is in a two-year deal, and Giants fans wouldn’t be able to stomach the possibility of losing both pitchers to free agency. There is still two years to...
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Inbox: Do Giants have sluggers on horizon?
Beat reporter Chris Haft answers fans' questions about any power hitters coming up from the farm system, the Matt Cain contract negotiations and the signing of Ryan Theriot.
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11 days ago
The Market For Edwin Jackson
The market for free agent starter Edwin Jackson appears to be pretty weak. He really hasn't been strongly linked to any teams, but there are rumors floating around that he's got a couple of three year deals on the table. Personally, I don't think Jackson is a bona fide ace, and more falls into the Kyle Lohse type of a third starter...which considering Lohse's four...
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Ten Pitchers Who Deserve Long-Term Extensions
The new trend in Major League Baseball is to lock up your young, cost-controlled talent to long-term deals. In the past, teams seemed hesitant to do that with pitchers, but they're starting to become a little more loose with that idea. In recent years, guys like Felix Hernandez, CC Sabathia, Jered Weaver, and CJ Wilson have all gotten long-term deals as starters, be it from their...
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Episode 64: Urban Legend
$17.15 million buys a lot of bamboo.
Episode 64: Urban Legend is out!
In the sixty-fourth episode, Thomas and Danny chat with MLB Insider Mychael Urban about the contracts with Tim Lincecum and Pablo Sandoval, Matt Cain’s potential extension, outfield woes, Front Office shenanigans, and more.
Click on the image below to find it on iTunes:
You can also find it on the...
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New Look?
Yup, this is very much actually hanging in one of the windows along the King Street side of AT&T Park. The last thing this team should be promoting is the position player who perhaps got the most reasonable deal of any free agent this offseason. And he got it to leave the Giants, not to stay with them.
The Giants don’t really have much of a new look to push. A couple...
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Lincecum Signs: Two Years, $40.5M
Tim Lincecum has signed a two year, $40.5M contract with a limited no-trade clause (Baggarly). $18M for 2012, $22M for 2013, $500K bonus (I still wonder what the accounting benefit to the Giants or Lincecum or both is, for having a bonus versus salary; does that go straight to Lincecum, avoiding the agent fee?) The Giants had offered $40M and Lincecum's side asked for $44M...
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19 days ago
Giants Ink The Freak Through Arbitration
The rumors of Tim Lincecum coming to terms with the San Francisco Giants finally came to fruition today, as the two sides agreed to a two year, $40.5 million deal that will ink The Freak through 2013, the final two years of his arbitration eligibility.The Giants reportedly offered Lincecum an eight year deal and were looking to make the 27-year-old right hander the first pitcher...
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Giants Ink The Freak Through Arbitration
The rumors of Tim Lincecum coming to terms with the San Francisco Giants finally came to fruition today, as the two sides agreed to a two year, $40.5 million deal that will ink The Freak through 2013, the final two years of his arbitration eligibility.The Giants reportedly offered Lincecum an eight year deal and were looking to make the 27-year-old right hander the first pitcher...
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SF Giants Rumors: Giants Have Shown Interest In Cuban Pitcher Gerardo Concepcion
Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com says there is ten teams that have shown interest in Cuban pitcher Gerardo Concepcion. The Rangers, Yankees, Cubs and White Sox have expressed the most interest, but the San Francisco Giants have also been a team that have shown some interest. Concepcion’s agent says he has an offer on the table and is expected to sign a Major League contract within the...
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Does Tim Lincecum want out of San Francisco?
Word has spread across the internet today that San Francisco Giants ace pitcher Tim Lincecum has turned down a contract extension offer from the team worth close to $100 million over five years. The Giants have also been dealing with co-ace, Matt Cain, on a deal that would keep both star pitchers in Giants uniforms for some time to come.
If Lincecum is willing to turn down $100 million...
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