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Catcher
Gregg Zaun: .249/.333/.383, 64% of playing time
Other: 36% of playing time
First Base
Prince Fielder: .295/.398/.586, 98% of playing time
Other: 2% of playing time
Second Base
Rickie Weeks: .266/.355/.451, 77% of playing time
Joe Inglett: .269/.334/.380, 7% of playing time
Craig Counsell: (below), 13% of playing time
Other: 3% of playing time
Third Base
Casey McGehee: .274/.334/.427, 62% of playing time
Mat Gamel: .271/.335/.436, 26% of playing time
Craig Counsell: (below), 9% of playing time
Other: 3% of playing time
Shortstop
Alcides Escobar: .282/.331/.380, 82% of playing time
Craig Counsell: .261/.344/.362, 15% of playing time
Other: 3% of playing time
Left Field
Ryan Braun: .314/.381/.575, 96% of playing time
Other: 4% of playing time
Center Field
Carlos Gomez: .255/.314/.373, 70% of playing time
Jody Gerut: .270/.333/.428, 23% of playing time
Jim Edmonds, (below), 7% of playing time
Right Field
Corey Hart: .276/.329/.457, 80% of playing time
Jim Edmonds: .250/.327/.432, 10% of playing time
Jody Gerut: (above), 10% of playing time
Starting Pitchers
Yovani Gallardo: 3.45, 200 innings
Randy Wolf: 4.05, 192 innings
Doug Davis: 4.38, 193 innings
Dave Bush: 4.48, 157 innings
Manny Parra: 4.44, 155 innings
Jeff Suppan: 5.16, 99 innings
Relief Pitchers
Trevor Hoffman: 2.65, 56 innings
Latroy Hawkins: 3.51, 69 innings
Todd Coffey: 3.75, 75 innings
Claudio Vargas: 3.9, 64 innings
Mitch Stetter: 3.33, 50 innings
Chris Narveson: 4.39, 64 innings
Carlos Villanueva: 4.15, 60 innings
I don't know if there's a whole lot I can add to that information. Overall, it's interesting stuff. If I had to make a few observations:
- I think we overestimated the starting pitching somewhat. I could easily see each pitcher putting up the line they are projected for, but the average starting pitcher ERA is around 4.45 and having five pitchers better than average seems unlikely. I'm cautiously optimistic for this pitching staff, which I think is quite underrated nationally.
- This is a fantastic bullpen. There's depth, specialists, durability, just about everything. I would be comfortable with any of the listed pitchers throwing in the eighth or ninth inning with a lead.
- The hitter's projections look to be very realistic. There's good balance. Center field and third base might interest me the most, considering that the backup in each case is projected to be a better hitter than the starter. Defense offsets much of that, but we will have interesting playing time allocation issues throughout this season.
- I am not going to list the finalized defense projections here today. This is more of the documented projected lines post to go back and look at throughout the year. I'll try to formulate a projected wins total based on these projections with the addition of defense.
Thanks to everyone for participating in the project, there was a lot of response. We even had over 100 submitted projections for some of the players. I'd take my chances that these projections are nearly as accurate as CHONE or other reliable systems.



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