It’s time for the first
pitcher to experience the Pod projection process. Aside from Yu Darvish, Michael Pineda has probably been the most newsworthy
pitcher of the off-season after the recent trade to New York. FanGraphs covered
every angle of the trade, including speculation on how he might perform moving
away from the pitcher’s haven in Seattle to the home-run happy Yankee Stadium.
As such, I figured it would be appropriate to actually try to figure this out
by mixing all the numbers together and spitting out a projection. But before
you go any further, make sure you read my pitcher projection introduction. Like
I did with hitters, I will discuss each metric I manually projected and then
provide my final projected fantasy stat line with the familiar 5×5 categories.
On Thursday evening,
reports began circulating that Rangers outfielder Josh
Hamilton, a recovering drug and alcohol addict, had been seen consuming
alcohol. At this writing, we don’t know any specifics, or even if the reports
are substantially correct. It has been reported that Hamilton was in a bar,
where he should not have been, was drinking, and that perhaps he called Ian Kinsler,
who subsequently tried to rescue him from the situation. If all of this proves
to be true, and so far this is no reason to believe it is not, in the coming
days there will be much ink spilled as to Hamilton’s perceived weakness and
moral failings, as well as the more complicated baseball question of how the
Rangers, who will be shortly challenged to decide if they should re-sign the
four-time All-Star, should react to his fall off the wagon. Hamilton is already
fragile, perhaps in part due to his substance abuse problems, perhaps not, and
will play this season at 31; extending him a long-term contract offer might not
be the wisest baseball decision even without the danger that Hamilton’s
addictions may get the upper hand at any time. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15970
Jurickson
Profar (SS)
- Profar is without a doubt one of the
elite prospects in the game. He plays the game at a level beyond his years, a
trait that showed as one of the youngest players in the South Atlantic League
in 2011. Profar is a switch hitter that can hit for average and power from both
sides of the plate with the potential to hit near .300 with 18-20 home runs at
his peak. He is an outstanding defender despite just average running speed,
thanks in no small part to his incredible instincts. Scouts gush when talking
about Profar and few have trouble projecting him as anything less than a star
in the big leagues.
Virgil
Oliver Trucks was born on April 26, 1917, to Lula
Belle and Oliver Trucks in Birmingham, Alabama. Raised at home by his mother
and by Aunt Fannie, an African American nanny, Virgil was the fourth of 13
children, including eight brothers and four sisters.iii Virgil’s first
encounters with baseball were as a toddler with his father. Oliver operated a
company store for the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in Birmingham and played
for the company baseball team in a local sandlot league. Virgil recalled that
his father, an accomplished pitcher, was offered a minor league contract by the
Nashville Vols in the Southern Association and “probably could have made the
major leagues, but with four kids at the time, he couldn’t leave home.” He
snuck into his father’s games and also into Rickwood Field, where the
Birmingham Barons of the Southern Association and the Black Barons of the Negro
Leagues played. By the age of ten Virgil was playing youth ball and progressed
through the American Legion leagues during his high-school years. http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/63151815-0
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