For us baseball junkies, “Steamer Day” is kind of like a national holiday. I love waking up on Steamer Morning, waiting for the folks over at Steamer Projections to tell us what’s going to happen in the baseball world for the year.
So projections are never perfect, fine, but they run arguably the most respected projection system in baseball. According to Mr.CheatSheet.com, Steamer is ranked third in overall hitter projections, and first in pitcher projections in 2017. Only FanGraphs’ Depth Chart projections ranked better (second and first respectively).
Since this list of projections includes our Royals, I'm going to go through the projections for the Royals projected starting lineup in 2018, then we’re going to play a little game called over/under.