Predicting something in baseball 3-plus years away often times looks foolish. And I have the evidence to back that up.
This is a fun exercise to see what a future team could look like at the present time. Baseball America does this and does not take into account free agent signings (from outside the org) or trades, because those are even more difficult to predict.
Here are the previous attempts at this exercise (year written in parenthesis):
For fun, here is the lineup I projected for 2017 … back in 2014.
- Catcher: Spencer Navin
- First base: Adrian Gonzalez
- Second base: Alex Guerrero
- Third base: Hanley Ramirez
- Shortstop: Corey Seager
- Left field: Matt Kemp
- Center field: Joc Pederson
- Right field: Yasiel Puig
Nailed it, especially with Navin (who isn’t even with the org anymore).