FanGraphs releases 2020 ZiPS projections for the Mariners

With most of free agency wrapped up, baseball’s orbit has stretched closest to absolute zero, with little movement left outside of a few trade rumors. The big moves could still come, but they’re unlikely to impact the Mariners in the short term, meaning Seattle is more fixated on what else comes in these ill-lit months: prospect lists and projections. After a rush of the former in the past week, we get the latter today in the form of ZiPS, from Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs. The projection system is veteran at this point, factoring in the past 3-4 seasons of performance, velocity data, injuries, park factors, and other variables based on player age to project the next year’s production by both WAR (FanGraphs/fWAR specifically) and broken down into particular traditional and advanced stats.