Rotation
LHP Jon Lester, RHP John Lackey, RHP Clay Buchholz, RHP Josh Beckett, RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka

Bullpen
RHP Jonathan Papelbon, RHP Daniel Bard, RHP Bobby Jenks, RHP Dan Wheeler, LHP Dennys Reyes, RHP Matt Albers, RHP Tim Wakefield

Outfielders
Mike Cameron, Carl Crawford, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Darnell McDonald

Infielders
Jed Lowrie, Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia, Marco Scutaro, Kevin Youkilis.

Catchers
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jason Varitek

DH
David Ortiz

GG Everyone.

How did I not make first page?

I doubt either WS representative makes the playoffs. Also, in spite of all the hype, at least one Philly and Red Sox starter will miss significant time. So excited for opening day. Felix gonna Felix. Of course that means a 2-1 loss. Go Mariners!

Here are those who will under perform

Side note, is Greer temp banned or something? I saw the notes on the first page about making up for lost time.

AL East - Red Sox
AL Central - White Sox
AL West - Angels
AL WC - Yankees

NL East - Phillies
NL Central - Reds
AL West - Rockies
AL Wildcard - Giants

Red Sox > Phillies in 6

I need a list of minor league ERAs from 2005-2010. Preferably in a spreadsheet format. They have this stuff listed on B-R.com but it is a giant pain in the dicksack to put together.

So... when looking around, I noticed this:

B-R batting lines for the IL, 2010
Official MiLB.com batting lines for IL, 2010
My batted ball data for the IL (Longoria)

WTF B-R? The average OBP of the league in 2010 was close to .400? How many PAs did Dan Johnson have?

Anyone know WTF that is?

BOS
CHW
OAK

NYY


PHI
CIN
SF

ATL

Dustin McGowan had such huge hype but that guy just cannot stay healthy, I remember when I was on the Blue Jay bandwagon when Halladay, Burnett made the Blue Jays ahead of the Red Sox that one year. What happened to Purcey/Litsch?

i may be mistaken, but did litsch ever project to be anything other than what he is right now? Purcey just can't find the strike zone and has been rerouted as a reliever. right now his future falls somewhere in between closer of the future and lifetime AAAA.

Teams that are vastly overrated by the talking heads heading into the season:

Braves
Yankees
Rangers

hopefully kyle gets the pitching part of his minorleaguesplits reborn site working soon!

MLEs (too optimistic) and park factors (too pessimistic) were ****ed up. I fixed them. Someone from the THT mailing list pointed it out. Brandon Belt is no longer superman. Sorry.

ETA: Can't do pitching in any meaningful way until I get league average ERAs for each minor league. I can list components but scaling FIP/xFIP to ERA will be impossible without those numbers.

ETA2: Getting pitching up through 2010 is likely to be my last work that I'll put into the site as long as it remains open source since it's too much goddamned work to scrap MiLB data myself, find league average ERAs, etc. (as Jeff undoubtably figured out on his own) THT expressed interest in having this as a premium service behind a paywall, at which point I'll do a lot more development. I'll leave the MLEs up for 2005 or something as a proof of concept, but the ability to have all the data I need from Brian's database (and Oliver projections) would more than make it worth selling my soul.

lol b-r.com



is this league full of the best baseball players you've never heard of or something?

Sean just has the columns in the wrong order, bref's SB are BB, their CS are probably IBB, the BB column is SO, SF is SB, GDP is CS i dunno about the other stuff

also his obp is derived from H+BB+HBP/PA rather than scraped

ah makes sense, i emailed him

let him know it's like that for all the leagues for all the years it seems, at least when i clicked back through 08

Mets 85 wins or more mark my word !

I meant how did I miss the thread until today, poopyface.

what is that, 2011 and 2012 combined? How many wins after the break when they deal Reyes?

mark my words Jays undefeated all season .......

mariners fan probably shouldn't be talking **** about wins.

i would say something but then uh yeah the indians etc

With all due respect, fu

it would be interesting to see the NYM actually healthy this season. same could be said for BOS