Fan Projection Targets 1/8/10: Top FAs
Today, we take a look at three of the top free agents left on the market now that the Jason Bay and Matt Holliday sweepstakes are over. These three are Felipe Lopez, Ben Sheets, and Johnny Damon.
Lopez is arguably the best second baseman left on the market, and is definitely the best available second baseman in terms of 2009 numbers. Lopez posted 4.6 wins in split time between Arizona and Milwaukee in last year.
Sheets missed all of 2009 with an elbow injury. In 2008, he posted 4.4 wins and has only posted less than 3 wins once in his career.
Damon had a memorable postseason with the Yankees, but barring the unexpected, he will have to find a new home. He’s been relatively consistent, with all of his last 4 seasons falling within the 2.3-3.6 WAR range.
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I will gladly just type the names into the player finder, but I figured I’d mention that for the lazy ones out there, a link for each of the players would be swell.
No really, I promise I’m not lazy.
Ah, that was supposed to be in there. Fixing.
So yea… I”m going to go ahead and ask how you can show a “CS” projection from the fans when there is no option for “CS.”
Also, is there a reason the projection-stat options are so limited? I, for one, would be more inclined to do more projections if we could project BABIP, for example. I know this is a brand new thing so there are thigns to be worked out, but just my $.02.
I didn’t get an answer when I posted a similar question regarding saves.
That led me to go back and read the comments under the first blog entry announcing the release of this new tool.
I may be wrong, but for the stats that are projected but have no drop-downs for us fans to make projections, I believe the system is making the prediction for us based on past performance averages, correlations, or some combination of the two.
I know this is a new tool; in the future it might be good to create some sort of FAQ about it to answer the typical questions that new users like myself might have. Either way, great stuff here. Thanks.
“I didn’t get an answer when I posted a similar question regarding saves.”
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fan-projection-targets-010610/#comment-119252
Ooops. Thanks for that. And sorry for sounding snotty.