Last year I posted Baseball’s Kings of Twitter, ranking MLB players by their Twitter followers. It was interesting and all, and it got a shout out from Twitter follower leader Nick Swisher, but who really cares about any of those jokers? There were no San Francisco Giants on that list, so it was clearly a flawed list. Let us then focus on what matters: the San Francisco Giants. Here are the players currently on the Giants’ 40-man roster that I could find on Twitter, sorted by total followers:

Player Twitter Handle Followers Hunter Pence @HunterPence 290873 Buster Posey @BusterPosey 249835 Sergio Romo @SergioRomo54 153402 Brandon Crawford @BCraw35 123154 Tim Lincecum @TimLincecum 121604 Brandon Belt @BBelt9 83683 Jeremy Affeldt @JeremyAffeldt 63725 Gregor Blanco @gregorblanco7 60101 George Kontos @G_Kontos 41078 Mike Morse @MCode38 31095 Juan Perez @juan_perez24 14012 Andrew Susac @andrewsusac 12900 Gary Brown @garybrown909 10787 Hunter Strickland @hstrickland60 10479 Ehire Adrianza @Ehire21 6295 Adam Duvall @aduvall123 6195 Mike Kickham @mikekickham4 5079 Hector Sanchez @Hect171189 4577 Chris Heston @Hesto23 3728 Chris Dominguez @c_dominguez10 2034 Erik Cordier @ErikCordier 1408 Matt Duffy @mm_duffy 1109 Yusmeiro Petit @YPetit52 201

No big surprises there. Hunter Pence comes out on top with Buster Posey close behind. I’m a little surprised Lincecum and Petit aren’t higher on the list.

I also created a Twitter list: SF Giants Players.

Now lets compare follower numbers to total career WAR (from fangraphs.com) to find out who’s Twitter popularity correlates with their actual baseball prowess. This list is sorted by Followers/WAR:

Player Career WAR Followers/WAR George Kontos 0.4 102695 Hunter Strickland 0.2 52395 Gary Brown 0.3 35957 Sergio Romo 6.6 23243 Hector Sanchez 0.2 22885 Ehire Adrianza 0.3 20983 Brandon Crawford 7.1 17346 Andrew Susac 0.8 16125 Brandon Belt 7.1 11786 Juan Perez 1.2 11677 Buster Posey 23.5 10631 Hunter Pence 29.2 9961 Mike Morse 3.6 8638 Jeremy Affeldt 7.6 8385 Gregor Blanco 9.1 6605 Tim Lincecum 27.4 4438 Yusmeiro Petit 2.9 69

I left out the guys who divided by zero or were negative. Maybe those top few guys should focus a little more on baseball and a little less on Twitter. Let’s go ahead and start the rumor that Gary Brown’s development has been delayed because he spends all his time on Twitter. It’s not surprising at all to see Sergio Romo near the top. Relievers usually don’t build up much WAR no matter how good they are since they play so few innings, and Romo is a very popular and charismatic player. Then there’s Lincecum and Petit at the bottom of the list; confirming my suspicion they are underrated on Twitter.

Who did I miss? Which Giants players do you follow on twitter? Leave a comment here or hit me up on twitter: @grubulub.

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