70-win 2012 Cubs 1 Comment
On RLYW, SG ran the code to create his own Marcel projections since Tangotiger has yet to publish them. He then simulated the season and the Cubs finish 5th in the NL Central, 4 games ...
CAIRO's Extremely Early Projected Standings 206 Comments
SG published the first projected standings for his CAIRO projections (version .3) yesterday. They make a lot more sense to me than the early Oliver projections.
TM
W
L
RS
RA
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"You better know who your ninth starter's going to be" 252 Comments
I’ve been a bit confused by one of Theo’s comments since taking over as President of Baseball Operations.
“We need starting pitching. You can’t take your chances ...
Kerry Wood wants a raise, but is he deserving of one? 128 Comments
Jon Paul Morosi tweeted that Kerry Wood would like a raise. My first thought was this: why would the Cubs give him a raise if his only other option is to retire? Wood has said he’ll ...
2012 Cubs Oliver Projections, Part 2 130 Comments
We took a look at the Oliver projections for the Cubs hitters yesterday and realized how bad the offense currently is. The pitching projections are below:
Name
IP
H
HR
K
BB
ERA
FIP
WAR
Matt ...
2012 Cubs Oliver Projections, Part 1 132 Comments
The Hardball Times has released their Oliver projections for the 2012 season. Berselius will once again be writing the player comments. Like the other projections, I’ll break ...
2012 Cubs Bill James Projections, Part 2 16 Comments
It’s Bill James week here at Obstructed View. We published the hitter’s projections a few days ago, our interview with Bill James and now the pitcher projections. I calculated ...
2012 Cubs Bill James Projections, Part 1 262 Comments
Over the years a lot of people have claimed that the Bill James projections are optimistic. In a straight player to player comparison it will often seem that way, but the league average ...
2012 Cubs ZiPS Projections, Part 2 138 Comments
We looked at the ZiPS projections for the batters already so here are the pitchers.
Player
IP
H
HR
BB
K
ERA
FIP
Matt Garza
194.3
176
19
64
181
3.52
3.60
Andrew Cashner
64.7
59
5
30
51
3.76
4.02
Ryan ...
2012 Cubs CAIRO Projections, Part 2 123 Comments
Below are the pitching projections for SG’s CAIRO. ZiPS is already out so I’ll post the batter projections later today.
Name
IP
HR
BB
SO
RA
ERA
FIP
Matt Garza
194
21
64
177
4.11
3.65
3.66
Ryan ...
2012 Cubs CAIRO Projections, Part 1 ***UPDATED*** 399 Comments
We can thank the Yankees early exit from the playoffs for SG’s CAIRO being released so early. For those of you who read ACB, the format for these projections will be similar. ...
What about Yu Darvish? 221 Comments
Yu Darvish could be posted by his Japanese team this winter makng him available to all 30 MLB clubs. He turned 25 years old on August 16th so 2012 would be his age 25 season. That’s ...
2012 NL Central Champion Cubs, part 4 28 Comments
Our current 2012 roster has a payroll of roughly $100 million and this year’s payroll was $135 million. Our team is roughly a 73 win team so we need to add a lot of wins with ...
