The past couple of days have seen a pair of glowing writeups over at FanGraphs for San Francisco Giants pitchers Logan Webb and Randy Rodríguez. Ben Clemens has been on the beat, demonstrating how Webb has gotten even better and declaring that Rodríguez “has been the best reliever in baseball this year.” I thought it was worth examining some other Giants of statistical interest. Clemens has the intelligence and knowledge to highlight all the relevant data to prove his points while I’m a dumb-dumb who will resort to cruder methods.
Let’s take a look at some Giants on the Statcast Top Performers leaderboard as of this morning and since we’re still early enough in the season to dream really big (especially because of the team’s 12-5 start) let’s see compare them to the group in which they’re a part.