Contract Crowdsourcing 2016-17: Day 2 of 10
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.
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.
Click here to estimate years and dollars for Walker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
“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.
At the very least, it will give a sample of the number of trolls, miss-clicks, and excessively contrarian voters.