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The A’s ZiPS projections are out, and boy are they depressing

It’s projection time! As a reminder, projections are statistical models utilizing past performance to try and estimate the future. They are imperfect yet useful, unbiased, yet bound to piss off about 90% of fans. If you like the A’s you’re likely to fall into that group, cause, just look.

Rough depth chart for Oakland A's with WAR projections care of old, dumb @DSzymborski. Full ZiPS post tomorrow, if tomorrow even exists. pic.twitter.com/thFnYG0xG6

— Carson Cistulli (@cistulli) January 25, 2017

You can find a full writeup of the A’s ZiPS and see the full numbers here.