PBL PREDICTIONS - 2039 SEASON EDITION
Aug 8, 2016 19:12:48 GMT -5
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Post by BlueJaysGM_Fin on Aug 8, 2016 19:12:48 GMT -5
2039 Season
Boston Red Sox - Markus Price & Jimmy Smith will combine to give up 30+ home runs and walk 50+ batters
CLEAR BUST: Both suffered early season injuries.
NY Yankees - Francisco Alvares will not reach 200 innings this season
BUST: Alvares pitched 211+ innings this season.
Toronto Blue Jays - Won't have a pitcher win 14 games
SUCCESS: Top pitcher won 9 games (Chapman & Sims each with 9)
Baltimore Orioles - SP Jose Hutchins will post an ERA+ over 200
BUST: Finished with a 94 ERA+
Minnesota Twins - ED Ward will win 15+ games this season
BUST: Finished with 8 wins
Cleveland Indians - Cole Lewis will lead the AL in runs scored
BUST: Finished with 93, leader was Yamaguchi from Toronto with 119.
Chicago White Sox - Subaru Yamaguchi will be the team's best hitter, defined by wRC+
BUST: Traded to the Jays April 4. FWIW, Would have led the White Sox if he remained. Finished with 131, Bingham was second with 125.
Detroit Tigers - Will lead the AL in stolen bases
BUST: Houston led with 99, Detroit finished with 57.
Colorado Rockies - Will have 3 starters with 200+ strikeouts after not having one last season
BUST: No starter above 200; closest was 189 strikeouts by Badheno.
Seattle Mariners - Tom O'Brian will hit 3 or less triples (last year hit 11)
BUST: O'Brian hit 4!
Oakland Athletics - Dylan Jones will post a 40%+ strike out rate
BUST: 33% strikeout rate this season.
LA Angels - SP Jhoan Brown will lead the AL West in K/BB rate
BUST: Only made 10 starts
Tampa Bay Rays - SP Pepe De Jesus will post a WAR above 5.0
BUST: 1.8 WAR this year.
Texas Rangers - Danny Solley will lead the bullpen in innings pitched and saves
BUST: Traded to the Astros, then claimed on waivers by Toronto.
Houston Astros - Nelson Green will lead the AL in stolen bases
BUST: Ended with 26 stolen bags, leader was teammate Tamayo with 30.
KC Royals - Jorge Garcia will lead the AL in doubles
BUST: Not even close, finishing with 31. Leader was Angels'' Canacho with 47.
Pittsburgh Pirates - Stanton Jimenez posts a sub .300 babip
BUST: .373 this year!
Philadelphia Phillies - Millard Nosworthy will not lead the team in home runs
BUST: Back to back 50+ home run seasons (57 this year)
Montreal Expos - Roger Davis will post his first 20/20 season
BUST: Injuries and time in the minors contributed a poor season.
NY Mets - Tomas Lugo will lead the NL in caught stealing %
BUST: Traded to the Dodgers April 4th. Finished third with 44.6% of runners thrown out in 89 games.
Chicago Cubs - Pablo Moran will strike out the least in the NL (under 45)
BUST: While he only struck out 23 times, Moran was injured 4 separate times to play in only 77 games
Cincinnati Reds - Myles Howard posts 135+ OPS+
BUST: Posted 113 OPS+
Milwaukee Brewers - Tony Ochoa will lead all NL rookies in ZR+ fielding metrics
BUST: Spent majority of time in the minors. Combined between minors and ML level put up a +10.4 ZR
ST. Louis Cardinals - Daniel Burgess will lead the NL in GIDP
BUST: In 82 games, GIDP 7 times. Leader bounced into 31 GIDP (Cubs' 3B Justin Garciapar)
SF Giants - The infielders (C included) hit more homers than the outfielders
SUCCESS: Infield out-homered the OF 79 to 53
San Diego Padres - Arturo Rivera posts a sub .800 OPS
BUST: .842 this year!
Arizona Diamondbacks - The pitching staff will allow more home runs than the offense will hit
SUCCESS: Pitchers allowed 182 home runs, hitters produced 167.
LA Dodgers - The Dodgers pitching staff will lead the NL West in strikeouts
SUCCESS: LA accumulated 1232. SD = 1050; SF = 1111; ARI = 1099
Miami Marlins - Pitching staff will lead the NL in ERA
BUST: Finished 3rd in NL ERA with 3.38. LA = 3.25; Pittsburgh = 3.29
Carolina Warhounds - Marcos Pena will not be the team's best hitter defined by wOBA
BUST: Pena put up a .400 wOBA in 158 games!
Atlanta Braves - Zack Davis will post an OPS over .825
BUST: Spent the majority of time in Triple-A, with a .926 OPS. .366 in ML level in 29 games
Washington Nationals - Will hit more home runs than last year as a team (105)
SUCCESS: 115 home runs this season.