Top 50 Left Fielder Seasons in Giants History

Third base is here.

Through 2019.  Ranked by WAR (baseball-reference+Clay Davenport, the best WAR number that exists).

1. 2001 Barry Bonds 12.1
2. 2002 Barry Bonds 11.6
3. 2009 Barry Bonds 10.9
4. 2004 Barry Bonds 10,8
5. 1993 Barry Bonds 10.3
6. 1996 Barry Bonds 9.75
7. 2003 Barry Bonds 9.6

8. 1998 Barry Bonds 9.1

9. 1997 Barry Bonds 8.5

10. 1995 Barry Bonds 8.2

11. 2000 Barry Bonds 8.1

12. 1989 Kevin Mitchell 7.9

13. 1994 Barry Bonds 6.6

14. 1961 Orlando Cepeda 6.2

15. 1951 Monte Irvin 6

16. 1963 Willie McCovey 5.95
17. 1917 George Burns 5.9

18. 1900 Kip Selbach 5.65

19. 2012 Melky Cabrera 5.3

20. 1920 George Burns 4.65
21. 1918 George Burns 4.65
22. 1990 Kevin Mitchell 4.55
23. 1919 George Burns 4.55

24. 1886 Jim O’Rourke 4.55

25. 2006 Barry Bonds 4.35

26. 2007 Barry Bonds 4.25

27. 1999 Barry Bonds 4.2

28. 1944 Ducky Medwick 4.1

29. 1960 Orlando Cepeda 4.05
30. 1883 Pat Gillespie 4.05
31. 1948 Whitey Lockman 4

32. 1953 Monte Irvin 3.85

33. 1971 Ken Henderson 3.8
34. 1970 Ken Henderson 3.8
35. 1984 Jeffrey Leonard 3.65

36. 2005 Moises Alou 3.55
37. 1935 Jo Jo Moore 3.55

38. 1936 Jo Jo Moore 3.4
39. 1934 Jo Jo Moore 3.3

40. 1975 Gary Matthews 3.2
41. 1991 Kevin Mitchell 3.1

43. 1894 Sam Mertes 3

44. 1885 Jim O’Rourke 3

45. 1974 Gary Matthews 2.9

46. 2010 Pat Burrell 2.85

47. 1973 Gary Matthews 2.85

48. 1903 Sam Mertes 2.85

49. 1983 Jeffrey Leonard 2.75

50. 1891 George Gore 2.75

      

And the worst left field season in Giants history...1943 -2.45 Buster Maynard

The Top 101 Plays in the San Francisco Giants Dynasty (Part Two of Four)

Part 1 is here.  It explains what's happening.

The countdown of the top 101 moments in the San Francisco Giants dynasty continues.

                                                     

75. 40% July 1 2012 
Up a game in the west as we neared the halfway point, the Giants had dropped two straight at home to the Reds, losing to then Giants killer Mat Latos the night before. 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth, Jose Arredondo got the first two, but then a Buster Posey double/Pablo Sandoval intentional walk brought up Angel Pagan, who doubled home Posey to win the game.  We’d go to 10 over .500 and keep our 1 game lead over the Dodgers. 


                                                        

74. 40% Aug 28, 2012 
Two games up and 14 over .500 as we start a road trip in Houston. Down 2-1, Belt led off the ninth with a base hit and Joaquin Arias tied the score with a double to left off Wilton Lopez.  We’d win the game 3-2 to extend our lead to 3.5 games. 

                                                     

73. 43% Apr 11, 2014 
Early in the season, only the 11^th game in, we trailed the Rockies 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth, 2 out, bases loaded, Madison Bumgarner hit a grand slam off of Jorge de la Rosa. We’d win 6-5.
                                               
                                                          

72. 43% May 18, 2010 
Second game of a two game series in SD, we go to 22-16 when we beat the Padres in 12. This is a good example of everyone on a roster being needed to win over the course of a season, with two out in a 4-4 game, Ryan Rohlinger and Eli Whiteside both singled, Matt Downs then doubled down the left field line to score both, we go up 6-4 and win 7-6.
                                                                     
                                       
                                                                                 
71. 44% Apr 3, 2014 
We opened the season with 4 in Phoenix, this game ended the series, we were down 5-3 in the 8^th but had plated two against Will Harris to tie the score. With 2 on and 2 out, Angel Pagan hit a three run homer and that would be the final score, 8-5.
                                                                   
                                                                  

70. 46% April 9, 2010 
Home opener vs. Braves, trying to stay unbeaten to go 4-0, one out in the bottom of the 9^th, Edgar Renteria hits a two strike two run game tying homer to left off Billy Wagner. We’d go on to win in 13.
                                                         

                                                   

      69. 46% Apr 28, 2012 

      The Giants spend a lot of April hovering around .500, we came in 10-10 after dropping the first game of a home series to the Padres. Down 1-0 in the 7^th with runners on the corners and two out, Brandon Belt doubled them both home off Anthony Bass – giving us a 2-1 run lead that would hold up the rest of the way.  
                                                 
                              
68. 48% May 9, 2010 
We had lost first two in NY, both on walk offs, dropping us to 17-12, we’re down 5-4 in the 8^th, Aaron Rowand hits a two run homer into the teeth of the wind off Jenrry Mejia, we go up 6-5 and that would be the final score. 
                                                 

                 
67. 49% March 31, 2014 
Opening Day in Phoenix.  7-7 in the 9^th, 2 out, 1 on, Buster Posey hits what will turn out to be a game winning homer against Addison Reed, we held on for a 9-8 win.

                                                                               

66. 43% July 22 2014 
Same game as #81. We were up 10, then down 1, now up a half game in the west in this second game of a series in Philly.  With the bases loaded and two out in the 14^th, Brandon Crawford broke a 5-5 tie with a three run double  We won 9-6 to extend our lead to 1.5.
                                                                
                                                       

65. 43% July 23 2014
 The day after #66, The Giants were 21 over .500, dropped all the way to 9 over – but entered here 14 over and with a game and a half lead after taking the first two in Philadelphia.  Bases loaded, two out in a scoreless top of the 9^th – Hunter Pence cleared the bases with a double. We’d go onto win 3-1 to take a 2.5 game lead in the west. 
                                                         


64. 44% Aug 27, 2014 
 What was a 10 game lead was now a 4.5 game deficit, 2-2, bottom of the ninth, Buster Posey walked off Juan Nicasio with a 3 run homer to beat the Rockies.
                                             
             

                                        

63. 49% June 7 2014 

20 games over .500 and looking unstoppable, the Giants were down 4-3 in the bottom of the 9^th when Hunter Pence doubled home Angel Pagan to tie the game.  We’d go on to win 5-4 to go up 10 in the west.


                                                          

62. 46% July 13 2014 
A ten game lead not much more than a month before had now turned to a half game deficit, the Giants playing a rubber game against the Snakes on a Sunday afternoon.  Down 1-0 with two out in the fifth, Buster Posey hit a grand slam off of Vidal Nuno (becoming, with Madison Bumgarner, the first ever battery to grand slam in the same game) and we went onto win 8-4.
                                                     
                                                      

61. 45% July 20, 2010
 A couple weeks before we were in 4^th place, 7.5 out – but after beating the Dodgers the previous day, we moved to four back and in second place.  Down 5-4 in the 9^th we chased Jonathan Broxton by loading the bases with one out (Don Mattingly, managing after Joe Torre's ejection, inadverantly took a second trip to the mound, necessitating the decision; Clayton Kershaw was ejected earlier) George Sherrill came in and Andres Torres got him with a two run double, flipping the game, putting us up 6-5. We won 7-5 and moved to 3 back.

                                               

           

60.  50% April 15 2014 
Games in April count as much as games in September, first place Dodgers come to town, we’re a game back – down 2-1 in the bottom of the 9^th, Kenley Jansen on the mound, with one out and one out, Brandon Belt doubled to the left field corner, scoring Angel Pagan from first.  We’d win it in 10.
                                                      

59. 16% Sep 30 2010
 Game 159, up 2 on the Padres and we extend that to 3, by beating the Snakes at home– Andres Torres breaks a 1-1 tie with a homer in the 5^th.  We win 4-1. Our magic number to win the west for the first time in 7 years moved to 1.

San Francisco Giants

September 29, 2010 · 

Nate is Great in the pinch. Uribe delivers in the clutch. B-Weez shuts it down for the save and the Giants now have a 2 game lead over the Padres with 5 games left.

58. 17% Sep 28 2010  
Game 157, the DBacks in town two days before #59, tied at two in the 6^th with two out, Nate Schierholtz singles home Pablo Sandoval and we’d go onto win 4-2, extending our lead over San Diego to two games.
                                                          

57. 25% Sep 29, 2010 
Middle game in the Arizona series that has been the covered in the prior two moments. Two up with 5 left, we keep that lead here, down 1-0 in the 4^th Pat Burrell hits a three run homer off Ian Kennedy and that winds up being the final score. 
       


56.  27% Sep 21 2010 
12 left in the season, Giants a half up, we’re in Chicago and beat the Cubs 1-0 with an 8^th inning Buster Posey homer.
                                                     

55. 29% Sep 19 2010 
13 left in the season, Giants a half out, we get it going in the first with a Jose Guillen grand slam, we beat the Brewers 9-2 to move into first. Jose Guillen was the author of the 55th greatest moment in Giants dynasty history.  Yes he was.  
                                                                 

54. 29% Sep 24 2010
Game 154, Giants need to win to keep their half game lead in the West on the Padres, down 1-0 in the 7^th, Pat Burrell hits a two run homer to give us what will wind up the last runs in a 2-1 win over the Rox that dropped Colorado five back.
                                                             

53. 16% Sep 9 2010
Pennant race baseball, 2^nd place Giants at first place Padres, we come in two back, up 1-0, Aubrey Huff hit a two run homer in the third to put us up 3-0, we won 7-3 to pull to a game out.

52. 20% Sept 12 2010 
Down a game to San Diego with 19 left, Buster Posey hit a two run homer of Mat Latos in the first to give us a 2-0 lead, we’d win 6-1 to pull into a tie. 



51. 13% Oct 7 2010 NLDS Game 1
 Home against the Braves to open the NLDS, the first playoff game of the Dynasty is the first to appear on this list. Cody Ross busts open a scoreless tie in the 4^th with a two out single to score  Buster Posey. It was the only run of the game.

Halfway down.  Back next week for part 3.

Tendown. Nov 1, 2015

197 is here. This is Tendown 198.

1. Pat Tillman.

2. Every Week Until He Stops - Vote for Bernie Sanders.

3. A Story You Didn't Know About Gene Upshaw

4. Here's genocidal racist Fox News contributor Mark Fuhrman's take on the below video.

I'll tell you why it's not excessive. He verbalized, he made contact, he verbalized, he was polite. He requested her. He verbally did that. The next level is he put a hand on her. She escalated it from there. He used soft control. He threw her on the ground, he handcuffed her. He didn't use mace. He didn't use a Taser. He didn't use a stick. He didn't kick her. He didn't hit her. He didn't choke her. He used a minimal amount of force necessary to effect an arrest. [Fox News, Hannity, 10/27/15]

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5.  Chuck acknowledges when one of his core beliefs has been disproven.  He'll never be Speaker of the House.

6.

Allegra Kirkland 

✔@allegrakirkland

Fox host asks why guns should be regulated in the US if "we're not regulating the car" http://bit.ly/1O5JMAu 

4:35 PM - 27 Oct 2015

 
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8. Courage.

My whole life, really, has been a no, and I fought through it. And, you, know, I talk about it. It’s not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. You know, I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. I came into Manhattan, and I had to pay him back, and I had to pay him back with interest. But I came into Manhattan and I started buying properties, and I did great.


9. . I'm Doing Something Just Like This but About The Giants and I'm Irritated This Got Published First.

10. So, I started rolling mine out the next day. It's the top 101 Moments From the Giants Dynasty

And finally...

That's all for this time.  I'll be back next time.  If there is a next time...

Your pal,

Jim

October, 2015 Athlete of the Month

September is here.

Daniel Murphy.  Runners-up: Jose Bautista,  Alcides Escobar, Jacob DeGrom

2 months left..

January - Marshawn Lynch
February - Malcolm Butler
March - Breanna Stewart
April - Steph Curry
May - Floyd Mayweather
June - American Pharoah
July - Serena Williams
August- Ronda Rousey
September - Jake Arrieta
October - Daniel Murphy

2015 NFL Supercontest Week 8

Week 7 is here.  I went 4-1. I'm 19-16.

Detroit +5 KC loss
Dallas +6 Sea win
Houston -3 Tenn win
Cleveland +5 Ari loss
Tampa +7 Atl win

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