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PECOTA time

Baseball Prospectus's 2007 projections are out. At a glance, the hitter projections are very encouraging, the pitcher projections (which are much less reliable) not so much.

Quick summary:  

  • Zito: 4.22 ERA
  • big comeback from Randy Winn
  • substantial power dropoff from Molina
  • Durham holds on to most of his improvement
  • Linden's the third best hitter on the team
  • Pedro Feliz (just to spite us!) has a career year
  • The real jawdroppers are the low-level prospect projections, which are so good that I wonder whether there was a glitch of some kind. Try these on for size:
  • Ben Copeland: .274/.333/.412
  • Emmanuel Burris: .281/.331/.344
  • Antoan Richardson: .289/.348/.385
  • Frandsen, Lewis & Schierholtz look good as well.

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    And then there's this
    Tim Lincecum

    114 innings
    143 strikeouts
    3.18 ERA

    Comparables: Francisco Rodriguez, Kerry Wood, Pedro Martinez, Juan Pizarro

    by Evan on Jan 16, 2007 11:12 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Pizarro
    In Pizarro world, Tim am big bust like Brien Taylor! Pizarro like him very much!
    <(-'.'-)>

    by lunaticfridge on Jan 16, 2007 1:17 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

    Re: Pizarro
    Are we dealing with some sort of copyright laws here?
    Coming to you by proxy

    by howtheyscored on Jan 16, 2007 5:41 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

    Hmmm...Ugh
    Fridge, he learn 'em English from Chulk.

    by Moggeee on Jan 16, 2007 11:08 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    Keep in that PECOTA doesn't work well on players without a lot of experience, hence the big projections for Tim the enchanter, Richardson, Copeland, Burris, and Anderson.
    The Dodgers are evil.

    by irwin on Jan 16, 2007 11:18 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    I can only hope they're a year off with that Feliz prediction.  If that pans out he'll be with us for years.

    by rocketdog on Jan 16, 2007 12:04 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Re: How accurate?
    PECOTA and ZiPS do a pretty good job projecting when compared to other systems out there. Note, however, that they're not that much better than Marcels, which are just regression toward the mean, with no further adjustments.

    by David Arnott on Jan 16, 2007 1:24 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

    Re: How accurate have these projections been
    All of the good prediction systems (PECOTA, ZiPS, Shandler, et al) are ~70% accurate within a few percent of each other.  That seems to be about the maximum threshold.

    The systems just can't be that accurate, because they can't predict injuries, head cases, angry managers, etc.  Plus, (albeit rarely) guys just come out with outlier career years.  Who knows when that will happen.

    by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jan 16, 2007 4:18 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    Of course Winn's going to have a "comeback" year.  He stunk last year, even below and his BABIP was awful.  So, this is one of those easy ones.  I suspect that Morris will also have better numbers than last year's.

    Either way, go Giants.

    by Kent on Jan 16, 2007 3:18 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    I plugged some IP and plate appearance estimates for the NL West into the PECOTA spreadsheet, and it looks pretty bleak...

    Team EqA
    --
    .277 San Diego
    .273 Arizona
    .273 San Francisco
    .268 Los Angeles
    .266 Colorado

    Team EqERA
    --
    4.28 Arizona
    4.38 San Diego
    4.51 Los Angeles
    4.58 Colorado
    4.76 San Francisco

    Apply the SF park factor to our already pessimistic pitching projections, and you get some brutal EqERAs. If, as PECOTA is predicting, Cain and Zito are league average (with higher EqERAs than Rodrigo Lopez, for chrissakes), Lowry and Morris are very bad, and Ortiz and Hennessey are throwing with their left hand, then, yes, it's going to be a long year.

    Thanks for the info, PECOTA, but I'm going to go back to worrying about the team's offense if that's okay with you.

    "Robb Nen is going to get you" - Benito Santiago to Chipper Jones, 10/7/02

    by Pants Man on Jan 16, 2007 3:56 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    I'd be absolutely shocked if Zito has a healthy year and has en ARA above 4.00.

    by cheno on Jan 16, 2007 4:25 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

    Re: PECOTA time
    Hey, if we keep on signing Feliz to one-year contracts, every year is a contract year! Career years all around!
    I'm always thinking ahead, like a carpenter that builds stairs. http://sportsnomad.blogspot.com/

    by sam urai on Jan 16, 2007 10:08 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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