Contrary to the title of this post, it’s very possible that the reader actually will believe the one feature of the FAN Projections detailed below. In point of fact, nothing of what follows represents much of a threat to credulity.

If the present author has lied, however, it’s only to relate a greater and more urgent truth.

Yesterday, FanGraphs CEO and founder David Appelman announced that the ballots for the 2015 FAN Projections are now open. The FAN projections, if nothing else, serve as an opportunity to examine the bias of the crowd, if not always that same crowd’s wisdom.

What the FAN Projections also allow, however, is for a reader to produce a sort of insta-projection for any player he or she might so choose. Earlier today, for example, I completed ballots for Matt Kemp, Tommy La Stella, and Marcus Semien. In addition to having done my part as an employee of this weblog, what my efforts also produced was a collection of three projections which expressed my personal and probably wrong convictions about Kemp’s and La Stella’s and Semien’s respective upcoming seasons — which projections are accessible merely by clicking the My Rankings button on the FAN Projection screen.

Regard (and click to enlarge):

In theory, a properly motivated individual could produce forecasts for every single baseball player for whom there’s also a player profile at this site.

By clicking here, is how one begins this journey into the marvelous.