Pitchers and catchers report in less than a month, and we’re about to enter projection season. Over the next several weeks, expect various public-facing projection systems to spit out their forecasts for the coming season. As always, take them with however many grains of salt as you’d like; projections are a good guide, as they take a cold, principled approach to evaluating players, but they are of course imperfect.
Today, we’ll take a look at the Yankees’ ZiPS projections, courtesy of Dan Szymborksi and FanGraphs. Here’s a glimpse at the depth chart with projected WAR totals:
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You can find Szymborksi’s writeup here, and I’d encourage you to read through it.