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BORAS Blowout 2018/19: Intro and Catchers

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For the past several Octobers (give or take an extended playoff appearance), the writers here at Camden Depot would put together organizational blueprints for the off season to suggest what the Orioles should do to improve the squad. That will not happen this year. However, a major component of that work was our contract projection model: BORAS.

In case you forgot or never knew, BORAS takes into consideration several characteristics of a player (e.g., age, offensive performance, defensive performance, historical contract comparisons) and uses that information to project what the new contract will look like. Each year, we add on another season of data and try to tinker with the model to improve upon it.