Royals Rumblings - News for August 21, 2015
Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus explains to Andy McCullough why the Royals outperformed their PECOTA projection this year.
Miller admitted he felt apprehensive about the projection for the Royals and anticipated a backlash. He huddled with analyst Rob McQuown, who oversees the system, to double-check the math involved. "Here’s the basic problem with assessing the 2014 Royals and projecting the 2015 Royals: Individually, the players didn’t play that well last year, and individually they didn’t project to play well in 2015," Miller wrote in an email to The Star.