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BCB Projections: First Basemen

Today we project the first basemen. The ground rules are the same-- slash lines and playing time-- and here's the format for the projections:

.avg/.obp/.slg (PA)  Fielder
.avg/.obp/.slg (PA)  Backup

.300/.350/.400 (75)  Starter last name
.270/.330/.400 (25)  Backup last name

The player capsules will be the same for all of the players. The player's name links to his CHONE projection page. The first slash line is his career stats, second is 2008 performance or MLE, and the 5-row table is the player's 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and 70th percentile CHONE projections.

Use as many players as you need, and make sure the amount of plate appearances totals 100 percent. Again, we don't need percentage signs, just the whole number is fine.

We encourage everyone to participate, once again. If you haven't helped in our catcher projections yet, please go there and do so. The catcher projections story also contains the background for this whole project. If you personally dislike projecting catchers and want to help us with first basemen, jump on in here.

A few notes: Fielder received about 98% of the first basemen plate appearances last year, 694/707. Brad Nelson's CHONE projections are included, you can also project Mike Rivera for any playing time here; if you do this, just give the percentage of plate appearances he'll receive if you've already projected him in the catcher thread. Keep in mind that Nelson is out of minor league options.

Some trends our projectors might find relevant: Fielder's HR/FB ratio went down from 23% in 2007 to 18% in 2008. His overall amount of flyballs hit also went down. His line drives stayed quite constant, with an increase in ground balls taking away from the amount of fly balls.

Finally, I played around with some HTML scripting to format these horizontal rules and tables. If anything looks funny or strange, let me know in the comments so I can fix it. Firefox seems to align the tables to the left like I want them to be, and Explorer puts them in the center, though it still looks fine.

In tomorrow's post, I'll wrap up the catcher projections and open the second basemen projections. We'll allow two days for each one, so you can take your time if you want to think it through. Thanks for your participation.

 


Prince Fielder

Career: .278/.370/.533
2008: .276/.372/.507

30% 0.273 0.370 0.517
40% 0.280 0.379 0.536
50% 0.286 0.388 0.555
60% 0.294 0.397 0.575
70% 0.302 0.407 0.590






Brad Nelson

Career (minors): .269/.347/.439
2008 (AAA MLE): .249/.345/.398

30% 0.240 0.329 0.379
40% 0.247 0.339 0.394
50% 0.254 0.349 0.407
60% 0.261 0.357 0.432
70% 0.270 0.367 0.451

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.283/.385/.540 (96) Fielder
.267/.310/.398 (3) Lamb
.241/.333/.406 (1) Nelson

by oconnobe on Jan 19, 2009 3:56 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.277/.371/.515 (85) Fielder
.240/.320/.380 (10) Lamb
.250/.320/.500 (5) Nelson

I don't specifically articulate my motives, because that wouldn't travel as well as a boo does.

by KLSnow on Jan 19, 2009 3:59 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.290/.390/.550 (92) Fielder
.260/.330/.400 (2) Lamb
.260/.340/.420 (4) Nelson
(2) Rivera

by marty22 on Jan 19, 2009 4:10 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.289/.377/.550 (97) Fielder
.240/.320/.370 (1) Lamb
.285/.330/.455 (1) Rivera
.250/.345/.475 (1) Nelson

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 19, 2009 4:13 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.270/.370/.540 (90) Fielder
.260/.320/.380 (5) Lamb
.242/.295/.390 (5) Rivera

Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.

by TheJay on Jan 19, 2009 4:21 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.288/.375/.545 (98) Fielder
.260/.300/.400 (2) Rivera

by cmow on Jan 19, 2009 5:40 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Same thing as last time

CHONE 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70th percentile projections. I’ll insert a little note in the post clearing that up.

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Jan 19, 2009 7:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

What does “70th percentile projection” mean to you?

by ol Pete on Jan 20, 2009 9:40 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Let's say you simulate a player's season 100 times.

Then you rank all the seasons. The best season would be the 100th percentile. So the 50th percentile is the exact middle of the spectrum. The 60th is 10% more optimistic. 70th is 10% more optimistic than that.

I don't specifically articulate my motives, because that wouldn't travel as well as a boo does.

by KLSnow on Jan 20, 2009 10:18 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

.285/.372/.545 Fielder (90)
.255/.355/.510 Nelson (10)

by Braun Holio on Jan 19, 2009 7:38 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.281/.381/.544 (93) Fielder
.268/.341/.475 (4) Nelson
(3) Rivera

Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.

by Jordan M on Jan 19, 2009 7:52 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.280/.370/.530 (93) Fielder
.255/.335/.435 (7) Nelson

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Juuuust a bit outside!!
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by Jack Moore on Jan 19, 2009 9:12 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Fielder -.287/.376/.572 (99)
Trent Durrington .210/.190/.200 (1) and 17 stolen bases

by Trent Durrington on Jan 19, 2009 9:21 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

.292/.399/.557 (92) Fielder
.273/.347/.406 (7) Lamb
.367/.367/.486 (1) Rivera

Don't try to do too much with it. Just take the ball the other way.

by shooty babitt on Jan 20, 2009 9:03 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

.282/.378/.545 (93) Fielder
.255/.339/.412 (7) Nelson

by MadJimiBrewha on Jan 20, 2009 7:19 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

lots of walks and homers for prince

.284/.398/.575 (90) Fielder
.251/.330/.395 (7) Nelson
.290/.358/.430 (3) Rivera

by tcyoung on Jan 20, 2009 8:32 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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