Brandon Crawford’s Development, plus thoughts on blogging and beer money and clickbait, Oh My!!

If there is one thing I like better than graphs, it's moving .gif's. This article from FanGraphs provides both. Simply mesmerizing.

Plus, it has pics of Brandon Crawford, proven clickbait (buzzword alert) for the younger female demographic. Plus, it has some insightful thoughts on Crawford's development as a Giant, therefore it is baseball related. Plus, Brandon Crawford and swinging in such close proximity should also provide more clicks, especially from the much coveted San Francisco market.

 Sounds like a win-win or a plus-plus-plus or something like that. It literally "checks all the boxes" (buzzword alert) for Grade-A blogging material.

from Wikipedia:

Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying onsensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks. Clickbait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make the reader curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content.^[1][2][3]

By 2014, the ubiquity of clickbait on the Internet had begun to lead to a backlash against its use.^[3][4] Satirical newspaper The Onion launched a new website, ClickHole, that parodied clickbait websites such as Upworthy and Buzzfeed,^[5] and in August 2014, Facebook announced that it was taking technical measures to reduce the impact of clickbait on its social network,^[6][7][8] using, among other cues, the time spent by the user on visiting the linked page as a way of distinguishing clickbait from other content.^[9]

Well, thank God we don't really do any advertising here at The Slav's Baseball Blog 'cause that whole "clickbait" scene sounds a little creepy, if you know what I mean. Plus, some would say we don't really even provide Grade-A blogging material, but that's another story.

I'll just stick with my graphs and moving .gif's if you don't mind. I don't really need the beer money (slang term) anyway.

Again, to reiterate, I do like moving .gif's and graphs and of course long walks on the beach and candlelit dinners ( with Mrs. TheSlav, of course )

from FanGraphs Baseball:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/brandon-crawfords-development-in-just-a-few-pictures/

This was the first paragraph of an article from March 2012:

There are people in the Giants' organization who think you're crazy. You don't think Brandon Crawford can hit major-league pitching, but they believe you're wrong. As the exhibition season opened Saturday, under a cloudless sky at Scottsdale Stadium, Crawford took the first steps toward resurrection.

There was a time, really, when Crawford reminded people a little of Brian Bocock. And it's not like Crawford debuted at an especially young age — when he came up, he was a firm 24. Ordinarily, glove-first middle infielders remain glove-first middle infielders. The Giants believed Crawford could be more than that. The Giants, at least, believed Crawford could hit enough to play. His defense hasn't slipped. His hitting has taken off.

I promised you images. Here's one of them. I don't know all the ins and outs of how Crawford has gotten better; I just know that he has. As evidence, consider his isolated power: