Happy New Year, everybody. With the dawn of 2016 now upon us, we are done with 2015 reviews and can now start looking forward. But how far forward? It's difficult enough trying to predict 2016 performance, let alone a few years beyond that.
But just for fun, let's see how well we can map out the next five years. The existence of Clayton Kershaw makes the pitching side seemingly easier than position players, so we'll deal with pitchers later. For now, let's think about the offense.
To predict the next five years, let's first look back at the last five years, and what we might have thought in January of 2011.