Contract Crowdsourcing 2016-17: Day 2 of 10

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October 11, 2016

Free agency begins five days after the end of the World Series. As in other recent offseasons, FanGraphs is once again facilitating this offseason a contract-crowdsourcing project, the idea being to harness the wisdom of the crowds to the end of better understanding the giant and large 2016-17 free-agent market.

Below are links to ballots for five of this year’s free agents, including a collection of outfielders and then Rajai Davis.

Other Players: Mike Napoli / Wilson Ramos / Kurt Suzuki / Chase Utley / Matt Wieters.

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Neil Walker (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Walker:

  • Has averaged 544 PA and 3.3 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 3.6 WAR per 600 PA* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 3.8 WAR in 458 PA in 2016.
  • Is projected to record 2.7 WAR per 600 PA**.
  • Is entering his age-31 season.
  • Made $10.6M in 2016, after avoiding arbitration in January.

*That is, a roughly average number of plate appearances for a starting player.
**Prorated version of final updated 2016 depth-chart projections available here.

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Click here to estimate years and dollars for Walker.

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Justin Turner (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Turner:

  • Has averaged 461 PA and 4.3 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 5.6 WAR per 600 PA* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 5.6 WAR in 622 PA in 2016.
  • Is projected to record 5.4 WAR per 600 PA**.
  • Is entering his age-32 season.
  • Made $5.1M in 2016, after avoiding arbitration in January.

*That is, a roughly average number of plate appearances for a starting player.
**Prorated version of final updated 2016 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Turner.

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Luis Valbuena (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Valbuena:

  • Has averaged 461 PA and 2.1 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 2.7 WAR per 600 PA* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 2.0 WAR in 342 PA in 2016.
  • Is projected to record 1.9 WAR per 600 PA**.
  • Is entering his age-31 season.
  • Made $6.1M in 2016, after avoiding arbitration in January.

*That is, a roughly average number of plate appearances for a starting player.
**Prorated version of final updated 2016 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Valbuena.

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Erick Aybar (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Aybar:

  • Has averaged 579 PA and 1.3 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 1.3 WAR per 600 PA* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a -1.2 WAR in 459 PA in 2016.
  • Is projected to record 0.9 WAR per 600 PA**.
  • Is entering his age-33 season.
  • Made $8.5M in 2016, as part of a deal signed in April 2012.

*That is, a roughly average number of plate appearances for a starting player.
**Prorated version of final updated 2016 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Aybar.

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Rajai Davis (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Davis:

  • Has averaged 453 PA and 1.7 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 2.3 WAR per 600 PA* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 2.0 WAR in 495 PA in 2016.
  • Is projected to record 0.9 WAR per 600 PA**.
  • Is entering his age-36 season.
  • Made $5.3M in 2016, as part of a deal signed in December 2015.

*That is, a roughly average number of plate appearances for a starting player.
**Prorated version of final updated 2016 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Davis.





 

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radivel
9 years ago

“After Turner is given a qualifying offer, will he accept it?”
I have a feeling that your results are going to be skewed towards the “No” side of things. It’s just a hunch that “No” will be 100% of the responses.

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Sean Patrick
9 years ago
Reply to  radivel

At the very least, it will give a sample of the number of trolls, miss-clicks, and excessively contrarian voters.

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