Projection rollouts are part of the lead-up to every baseball season, and two of the most trusted sources around -- Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA and FanGraphs (based on a combination of the Steamer and ZiPS projection systems) -- have now released their projected standings for 2024. PECOTA's...
what does matter is that they all agree that of the four best hitters in baseball, two wear pinstripes. One of those two, Soto, took 0 plate appearances for the 2023 Yankees, while they were instead giving nearly 1,500 plate appearances to the likes of Willie Calhoun, Jake Bauers, Billy...
RotoChampdetermines their preseason projected standings by compiling stats from Baseball Prospectus, Davenport, FiveThirtyEight, and FanGraphs. As you can probably guess, based on what some of these sources have already predicted, RotoChamp's ranking for the Rockies is within the same range. Like Fan...
The 2023 Diamondbacks reached the World Series with the 19th-highest payroll. The Orioles had baseball’s second-best record in 2023 despite carrying the second-lowest payroll. The Astros won the World Series in 2022 despite staying below the tax line. All of those teams featured dazzling young...