Fan Projection Targets – 01/27/10
Your task today? To file projections for three recent movers (if not so much shakers): Jon Garland, Xavier Nady, and Jim Thome. Your compensation? Something like, but not quite exactly, the satisfaction of a job well done.
Garland moves southward in the NL West to the cavernous and pitcher-friendly Petco Park. Or PETCO. Or whatever.
After missing all but seven games last season to his second Tommy John procedure and the subsequent rehab, Nady looks to make his return with the Cubs, who signed the outfielder to a one-year, $3.3MM contract.
The Twins hope the contract they just gave a 39-year-old Jim Thome is right on Target. (Get it? Like Target Field?)
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Am I bad because I project Thome to swipe at least 60 bases? I figure he’ll get lots of playing time, so……
Has anyone seen the Fans Projections for Kenji Johjima? haha
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=5811&position=C
-2 singles? Something doesn’t seem right…
Seems pretty accurate to me.
I like that .502 ISO projection. I literally laughed out loud.
Fangraphs has already mentioned many times that Johjima is a problem that they’re aware of.