Posts Tagged ‘WAR’

This is meant to be a quick companion to Chris’ WAR series to give you the general gist of what that stat is and how it’s used. An in-depth explanation will probably come some time in the semi-distant future, for now this is just meant to help you understand what that WAR number means.

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Time for part two in my WAR prediction series, up this time: Bullpen. Relief pitchers are very hard to predict anything about, each year someone can be amazing and then be complete trash the next. But I am going to do my best to give it a shot. So follow me after the jump for the predictions…

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Since apparently doing a series of posts has become the thing lately here at Long Drive I figured I should do one as well. These series of posts will have my predictions of the Phillies player’s WAR and whatever other random stats I might feel like predicting. For pitchers I will do WAR and ERA. I’ll probably drag this out a little and break it into sections so I don’t do one incredibly long post. Said sections being: starting rotation, bullpen, infield, outfield, and finally bench.

Let me also start by saying I have little to base these predictions on and these predictions are just that, predictions. First up: starting rotation, except for 5th starter because really it will probably be several people this year. So follow me after the jump for what I expect from our starting rotation  in 2010.

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