Contract Crowdsourcing 2017-18: Ballot 13 of 15

by
November 3, 2017

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 2017-18 free-agent market.

Below are links to ballots for five of this year’s free agents, all of them relievers.

Other Players: Matt Albers / Yonder Alonso / Jake Arrieta / Alex Avila / Jose Bautista / Carlos Beltran / Jay Bruce / Melky Cabrera / Trevor Cahill / Welington Castillo / Lorenzo Cain / Andrew Cashner / Jhoulys Chacin / Steve Cishek / Alex Cobb / Bartolo Colon / Zack Cozart / Johnny Cueto / Yu Darvish / Wade Davis / Lucas Duda / Jarrod Dyson / Alcides Escobar / Yunel Escobar / Doug Fister / Todd Frazier / Jaime Garcia / Carlos Gomez / Carlos Gonzalez / Miguel Gonzalez / Curtis Granderson / Luke Gregerson / Jeremy Hellickson / David Hernandez / Matt Holliday / Eric Hosmer / Chris Iannetta / Jon Jay / Howie Kendrick / Francisco Liriano / Jonathan Lucroy / Lance Lynn / J.D. Martinez / Cameron Maybin / Mitch Moreland / Logan Morrison / Mike Moustakas / Ricky Nolasco / Eduardo Nunez / Brandon Phillips / Michael Pineda / Jose Reyes / CC Sabathia / Carlos Santana / Masahiro Tanaka / Chris Tillman / Justin Upton / Jason Vargas / Neil Walker / Jayson Werth.

***

Greg Holland (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Holland:

  • Has averaged 51 IP and 0.9 WAR over last three seasons*.
  • Has averaged 1.2 WAR per 65 IP** over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 1.1 WAR in 57.1 IP in 2017.
  • Is projected to record 1.4 WAR per 65 IP***.
  • Is entering his age-32 season.
  • Made $7.0M in 2017 as part of deal signed in January.

*Excludes 2016 season, which Holland missed.
**That is, a roughly average number of innings for a reliever.
***Prorated version of final 2017 depth-chart projections available here.

You Aren't a FanGraphs Member
It looks like you aren't yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren't logged in). We aren't mad, just disappointed.
We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it, we'd like to point out a few of the good reasons why you should become a Member.
1. Ad Free viewing! We won't bug you with this ad, or any other.
2. Unlimited articles! Non-Members only get to read 10 free articles a month. Members never get cut off.
3. Dark mode and Classic mode!
4. Custom player page dashboards! Choose the player cards you want, in the order you want them.
5. One-click data exports! Export our projections and leaderboards for your personal projects.
6. Remove the photos on the home page! (Honestly, this doesn't sound so great to us, but some people wanted it, and we like to give our Members what they want.)
7. Even more Steamer projections! We have handedness, percentile, and context neutral projections available for Members only.
8. Get FanGraphs Walk-Off, a customized year end review! Find out exactly how you used FanGraphs this year, and how that compares to other Members. Don't be a victim of FOMO.
9. A weekly mailbag column, exclusively for Members.
10. Help support FanGraphs and our entire staff! Our Members provide us with critical resources to improve the site and deliver new features!
We hope you'll consider a Membership today, for yourself or as a gift! And we realize this has been an awfully long sales pitch, so we've also removed all the other ads in this article. We didn't want to overdo it.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Holland.

***

Tommy Hunter (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Hunter:

  • Has averaged 51 IP and 0.7 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 0.9 WAR per 65 IP* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 1.2 WAR in 58.1 IP in 2017.
  • Is projected to record 1.0 WAR per 65 IP**.
  • Is entering his age-31 season.
  • Made $1.4M in 2017 as part of deal signed in February.

*That is, a roughly average number of innings for a reliever.
**Prorated version of final 2017 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Hunter.

***

Brandon Kintzler (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Kintzler:

  • Has averaged 44 IP and 0.4 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 0.6 WAR per 65 IP* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 0.9 WAR in 71.1 IP in 2017.
  • Is projected to record 0.6 WAR per 65 IP**.
  • Is entering his age-33 season.
  • Made $3.0M in 2017 after avoiding arbitration in January.

*That is, a roughly average number of innings for a reliever.
**Prorated version of final 2017 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Kintzler.

***

Jake McGee (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding McGee:

  • Has averaged 46 IP and 0.8 WAR over last three seasons.
  • Has averaged 1.1 WAR per 65 IP* over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 1.5 WAR in 57.1 IP in 2017.
  • Is projected to record 1.2 WAR per 65 IP**.
  • Is entering his age-31 season.
  • Made $5.9M in 2017 after avoiding arbitration in December 2016.

*That is, a roughly average number of innings for a reliever.
**Prorated version of final 2017 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for McGee.

***

Mike Minor (Profile)
Some relevant information regarding Minor:

  • Has averaged 77 IP and 2.1 WAR over last three seasons*.
  • Has averaged 1.8 WAR per 65 IP** over last three seasons.
  • Recorded a 2.1 WAR in 77.2 IP in 2017.
  • Is projected to record 0.7 WAR per 65 IP***.
  • Is entering his age-30 season.
  • Made $4.0M in 2017 as part of deal signed in February 2016.

*Excludes 2015-16 seasons, which Minor missed.
**That is, a roughly average number of innings for a reliever.
***Prorated version of final 2017 depth-chart projections available here.

Click here to estimate years and dollars for Minor.





 

Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
ChippersJonesing
8 years ago

Mike Minor turned down the Mutual Option, FWIW.

1