The overall outcome of the 2018 Detroit Tigers season might not be pretty. Both FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus project the Tigers to lose at least 92 games. But that doesn’t mean the individual puzzle pieces along the way can’t still be special. A realistic outlook for most players ranges from bleak to unexciting, but a few Tigers players could be in for a strong year.
Nowadays, there are no shortages of projection systems, each with slight nuances and quirks, though the resulting outcomes are generally in the same range. While the projections themselves may ultimately miss the mark, they do a good job of setting the temperature for a player before the season begins.