The giants struggle to achieve runs. Here are some reasons why

The year is 202 (fill out your favorite year here) and you get the ability of the Giants to achieve Runs. So it was like that, it should be.

A lack of runs was the main concern for the 2025 Giants on the opening day, and it was easy to forget that the victories were stacked. Now that cold bats have led to the first four games of the Giants in the season, it is the only concern that should be worried about. It looks worse and feels worse than on repeats, parking effects and ligine-wide evaluation levels, and it helps to remember that the Giants in all possible statistics are still average on league, from Home Runs to OPS+ to runs. But that doesn't mean it is not bad. It's definitely not great.

There is no quick solution and there is no uniform explanation. There is a symphony of why the Giants do not score a goal. Some of the rackets in this symphony bubbles kazons. Some of them have swallowed Your kazons. At least one of the rackets is the bad Roger.

Let's take a look at how and why the giants fight.

The unproductive rackets were very unproductive

If you have seen the Giants this season, you are not surprised by this attitude. But they could be surprised how extreme it was.

Let's compare the Giants with their pre -season projections of zippers, which were actually a little optimistic in the line -up. We will use WRC+ because it is league and park. Don't be intimidated by the nerd statistics. Snap her to the lapel and let it work for you. All you need to know is that 100 are average and that a player with a 95 WRC+ 5 percent is worse than the average hitter. A 105 WRC+ is 5 percent better and so on.

The Giants had many rackets, of which they were expected to deliver production in the league or better. Some of them have actually agreed or exceed their projections, and we will start with them:

These players represent the good news and there are many of them. These are six regular guests this season that make it even better than expected, and usually they want a team to be. There is no one at an MVP pace, and nobody exceeds their expectations wildly, but if two thirds of the list do what they want, the crime should do well.

Then there is the other third.

The Giants have several rackets that appear better than expected, but none at an MVP pace. The Giants have several rackets that do worse than expected, but some of them are at an LVP pace. This season there were 226 batters in baseball with at least 100 record appearances this season. Here these rackets rank under this 226:

166. Willy Adames
220. Lamonte Wade, Jr.
224. Patrick Bailey

If you feel better, Joc Pederson and Tommy Pham are right next to each other between Wade and Bailey. None of them are doing anything.

This means that they don't feel better. Adames' numbers are below average and worse than projected, but they are also a standard type of unproductive. A list with as many overarching rackets as the 2025 Giants can now manage players with Adames' numbers.

Wade and Bailey were two of the worst rackets in baseball, and they got many record appearances. And although Adames was not nearly as ineffective, only 12 players in baseball had more PA, so his below -average figures reflect the results that occur more often compared to other players.

Everything was enough to pull the crime down. It does not help that Tyler Fitzgerald went well, and his bats on the injured list were replaced by rackets that do not cut almost as well, but if there is a thing that the 2025 giants should not complain about, there are injuries. Even with Fitzgerald, Casey Schmitt and Jerar Encarnación on the IL, this was a healthier team than most others.

You don't hit the ball hard

There is no way to lift these numbers. In the NL and 29th in the baseball in hard -affected percentage, the giants are last defined as a ball, which leaves the bat at 95 miles per hour or faster. The sea layer in Oracle Park is not thick enough to influence the speed of the ball from the bat. So this is not a ball park things.

Hart -like percentage does not correlate perfectly with runs, since Steven Kwan and Luis Arraez are famous examples of rackets that were 95 miles per hour without a ton. It doesn't even correlate so well for entire teams, although it correlates a little. Here is every team this season:

Nevertheless, it is better to hit the ball hard than not. At the moment it is not the giants.

You beat the ball in the air … but not good

Statistically speaking, it is better for jugs to keep the ball on the floor. This is a baseball lineaf wisdom that explains why Logan Webb and Tyler Rogers are excellent jugs of the Major-League. The next large biger that goes over the fence will be the first, and if you eliminate this result, keep more runs off the board.

The opposite applies to rackets. On average, it is preferable to bring the ball into the air. Only two teams have a lower floor ball share than the Giants: the Braves and Dodgers. They put more balls into the air than the Yankees and the Cubs, two of the strongest crimes in baseball. It's a good sign, isn't it?

Except not all balls in the air are the same. The Giants also took second place in the baseball in pop-up percentage and first in the NL.

This is bound from the last section with the hard -hit percentage, as it is difficult to hit a ball of 95 miles per hour directly into the air. So the Giants can bring the ball into the air as well as the Dodgers (well), but not as many runs (poorly).

The Giants are dominated by Fastballs with four navigations

Only the Rockies have a higher percentage of Fastballs with four Seemen than the Giants this season, and this is not a great society that can be kept. Casters do not take care of tricks or underclass. You say: “Here, beat it.” The Giants have a .284 woba on the 2,229 four-souls they saw this season, and this is the worst brand in baseball. It is the worst in the National League with 23 points.

You saw more fast balls with four seadia (206) in the middle than most teams, and you are against you in the lower third of the baseball, with an average value of 0.312 and a woba of 0.339. For comparison, the Diamondbacks have one .500 BA and .614 Woba on the 192 four-seater, which they saw in the middle. This is an extreme level of success, but 12 teams have a woba higher than 0.400 against fast balls in the middle. Probably because they are fast balls in the middle.

Fastballs with four sea, but they are in the strike zone not But in the middle? The giants are particularly bad there, with a woba of 0.249, which is 57 points worse than the league average. You can get the Giants out with fast balls, even if they are in the middle, but they can really get them out if they strike the scope of the strike zone.

It is not surprising that the Giants against Fastballs with four sets are not great, which are tougher than 95 miles per hour, which is recently dead, which indicates that they are triggered by speed more than most teams. However, they are also dead against Fastballs recently Slower As 95 miles per hour. They are the third-party team against four-sea team, which are slower than 92 miles per hour. They are bad against them if they are ahead in the count and they are bad against them when they are back in the count. On a boat with a goat and cetera and cetera. You only hate four sea fasting!

They also do not vibrate through them, which could be part of the problem. They contact more than other teams, with a low server rate, also against the over 95 miles per hour. Whatever the reason, the rest of the league is aware of this. Throw them up Fastballs and there is a good chance that they get underneath and bring the ball up.

Can be fixed? Secure. By mid -May there are many established stories that disappear at the end of September. But if you are looking for a way to describe what's going on and you want to secure evidence, here is the short version: the Giants do not hit the ball so hard, they burst too many balls and they fight with Fastballs with four sea, which they see more often than almost any other team. By May 12th, you also have two of the five -strongest starting position players in baseball.

Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the game? Well, it was mostly pretty good, especially on the Pitching page. The Giants finally have a winning record. Her greatest concern in the season was how to achieve runs. This is her greatest concern a month and a half of the season and has only grown.

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