Dan Szymborski dropped his ZiPS projections for the Oakland Athletics on Monday, and my Baseball Prospectus 2016 arrived in the mail with its PECOTA projections as well, so let's dive into their projections. First, we start with the outfield.
Projections explained
I'll just borrow Alex Hall's words from a few years ago:
ZiPS relies heavily on previous years' stats, it tends to be a bit pessimistic towards young players, due to lack of an MLB track record, as well as players who have missed lots of time recently (so basically, every single A's player).