Obstructed View Season Predictions 55 Comments
Our long national nightmare is finally over! The Cubs play today at 1:35 ET, and at around 5:00 ET I will be drunk and the Cubs will be a game out of first place. Now that the season ...
PECOTA Percentiles are live No Comments
Baseball Prospectus has updated their player pages to show the PECOTA percentile forecasts.
PECOTA percentiles are now available to subscribers.
Those of you new to BP, or to PECOTA, ...
2013 Cubs Projections: Starlin Castro 121 Comments
Before we get to Starlin Castro's 2013 Cubs Projections, I wanted to talk a little bit about something else in regard to Castro.
An awful lot has been written about Starlin Castro ...
What’s wrong with the 2013 Cubs Oliver projections? 90 Comments
I noticed yesterday on Fangraphs that they had published the 2013 Cubs Oliver Projections. Actually, they'd posted all the teams in their projections section, but I was interested ...
2013 Cubs Projections: Ian Stewart and Luis Valbuena 50 Comments
Our 2013 Cubs Projections series continues with a look at 3rd base. The starting job is Ian Stewart's according to Dale Sveum, which leaves Luis Valbuena as a back-up, but even ...
73 win Cubs No Comments
CAIRO's latest projections have the Cubs winning 73 games.
I'll quote SG's title here:
CAIRO 2013 v0.4 and Still Slightly Early and Somewhat Useless 2013 Projected MLB ...
2013 Cubs Projections: Darwin Barney 56 Comments
Continuing our series, it's time to look at the 2013 Cubs Projections for Darwin Barney. Last spring Barney talked about hitting for more power. We knew he wouldn't be a power ...
2013 Cubs projections: Anthony Rizzo 3 Comments
A little over a week ago, we started our 2013 Cubs projections series by looking at Welington Castillo. The plan is to just go from catcher to 1st to 2nd and so on. Up today is Anthony ...
2013 Cubs projections: Dioner Navarro and Steve Clevenger 12 Comments
Neither of these players are very good so I'm not going to discuss them. Here are the 2013 Cubs projections for Steve Clevenger and Dioner Navarro.
Clevenger
PA
H
2B
3B
HR
SB
avg
obp
slg
wOBA
CAIRO
385
92
21
2
5
2
.260
.323
.376
.312
ZiPS
357
86
20
2
3
1
.261
.309
.361
.291
Average
371
89
21
2
4
2
.261
.316
.368
.301
Navarro
PA
H
2B
3B
HR
SB
avg
obp
slg
wOBA
CAIRO
269
60
11
1
5
2
.251
.322
.369
.309
ZiPS
200
44
9
1
4
1
.246
.305
.374
.288
Average
234
52
10
1
5
2
.248
.314
.372
.298
And ...
Four most likely to exceed expectations 146 Comments
I was working on an idea for a post using the 2013 Cubs projections. The idea was to calculate an approximation of the best case scenario win total. I was going to use the 65th percentile ...
2013 Cubs Projections: Welington Castillo 20 Comments
I know I said I probably wasn't going to do these this year, but I am going to change the format a little bit. I won't be combining 5, 6 or 7 projections to create an average. ...
Updated and early CAIRO projected standings 27 Comments
RLYW has released the 3rd version of CAIRO projections and a very early simulation of the 2013 season. The Cubs finish in 5th place in the NL Central and win 73 games. They would also ...
Assume the Position: Catcher 48 Comments
We are getting very close to catchers and pitchers reporting. We might have one or two moves of significance until that point, but I'm going to assume that our team is essentially ...
Copying what other sucky team’s bloggers do 16 Comments
Having difficulty thinking of something to write about, I decided to look to other bloggers for teams that suck for ideas. The first idea came from a Royals blog that was comparing ...
Copying what other sucky team’s bloggers do 32 Comments
I was trying to think of something to write about. I had an idea, looked into it, lost interest and left a brief comment summarizing what I found. I've done this many times over ...
Carlos Villanueva, Scott Baker and Scott Feldman combine to make one slightly below average starting pitcher 46 Comments
The Cubs have gone a little nutty in signing as many back-end of the rotation starters as they can find. They grabbed Scott Feldman who would be the worst starter in many rotations ...
An early look at the 2013 rotation 36 Comments
Assuming health, the Cubs rotation appears to be set with Matt Garza, Jeff Samardzija, Travis Wood, Scott Baker and Scott Feldman. I was curious what we could reasonably expect from ...
How much is Jeff Samardzija worth? 69 Comments