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Braves 2016 Projection Reviews: Starting Pitchers

Related Topics: Atlanta Braves, Pitcher, Aaron Blair

This post, as you can probably tell by the title, is a companion piece to the projection review of position players completed earlier this week. As it turns out, based on the data I examined, there’s somewhat less to compile for members of the 2016 Atlanta Braves pitching staff, for a few reasons. First, Steamer, ZiPS, and myself varied the specific endpoints estimated. Steamer was the most comprehensive, with ERA, FIP, fWAR, and rWAR*, ZiPS did three of those but not rWAR, and in my narrowly-focused worldview, I chose only to focus on FIP and fWAR. Second, projections for relievers are a fairly foolhardy task, and I did not collect those last year, though I may do so this coming season.