On Friday, when the baseball world was enraptured by what Clayton Kershaw was going to do, FanGraphs made the 2019 Steamer projections available. It’s an exciting time because depending on what it says about your favorite player you can point at them and shout, “See? I told you he was good,” or you can rail against the complex algorithms and the person that made them: Jared Cross.
I’ve looked at the position players and grouped them into four categories depending on my reaction to their projection:
· I told you he was good
· It is what it is
· I will fight you, Steamer
· Yikes
I told you he was good
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