The annual PECOTA preseason projections are out and this may be the most wild predictions have released to date.
Among the 124 players quantified by the system for the Tampa Bay Rays, the two players that it predicts, in the 50th percentile, of leading the position players in WARP is outfielder Cal Stevenson and infielder Esteban Quiroz. Third on the list is another players who has yet to make his Major League Debut, let alone play in a professional game for Tampa Bay and that is infielder Xavier Edwards. Wild!
Here are the top five Rays position players by WARP, the BPro version of WAR:
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