2017 MLB Thread

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Its looking like Ross stripling is going to make the Dodgers opening day roster

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Came here to give you a nice light hearted frick the Dodgers, but thats awesome. Hes a great guy, and I hope he has a lights out season.

And as always, go Stros.

Please rename thread to Astros season long championship celebration thread thanks in advance

You can have the thread title once you beat the Rangers.

Baseball Prospectus Win Totals

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AL West
Astros 93-69
Mariners 86-76
Rangers 84-78
Angels 76-86
Athletics 75-87

A few others for our O and Royal fans
Orioles 74-88
Royals 72-90

One of my favorites, fangraphs

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AL West
Astros 91-71
Angles 84-78
Mariners 83-79
Rangers 83-79
Athletics 79-83

Orioles 81-81

Royals 76-86

Basically if my 'stros don't win the West, it'll be a failure unless they make a crazy run through the WC.

Here are fangraphs blended projections of our fellow aggys

Positional Players:
Tyler Naquin:
.259/.325/.405 .147 ISO .314 wOBA 94 wRC+ 1.2 WAR

Cliff Pennington:
.220/.293/.306 .085 ISO .267 wOBA 67 wRC+ 0.1 WAR

Justin Ruggiano (doesn't have blended projections, steamer is only projecting 1 AB so I'm using ZiPS):
.238/.307/.396 .158 ISO .306 wOBA 92 wRC+ -0.1 WAR

Pitchers (im using steamer for these since they have more complete projections for pitchers):
Michael Wacha:
4.04 ERA 4.01 FIP 4.22 xFIP 19.4 K% 7.5 BB% 11.9 K-BB% 1.7 WAR

Ross Stripling:
3.58 ERA 3.58 FIP 3.73 xFIP 21.7 K% 6.6 BB% 15.1 K-BB% 0.5 WAR

Daniel Mengden (using ZiPS because they are the only projection that has him making more than one appearance):
4.71 ERA 4.28 FIP 1.4 WAR

Logan Kensing (using ZiPS for same reason):
4.39 ERA 4.16 FIP 0.2 WAR

Alex Wilson:
4.41 ERA 4.43 FIP 4.71 xFIP 16.6 K% 7.5 K% 9.1 K-BB% 0.9 WAR

I had a fantasy draft yesterday. I tried to go as Houston/A&M heavy as I could so I could enjoy my team a little more.

Correa, Springer, Bregman, McCullers, Keuchel, Giles, Wacha, and Naquin.

Altuve was gone before my first pick.

I am not sure any other Aggie is worth rostering at this point.

It is our most glaring weak spot. I really wanted to trade for another high end starter like Quintana. I guess there is still a chance at the deadline.

I liked the hill alright, but it doesn't bother me that its not. I'm excited to check out Torchys deck out there. It'll probably help out hitters a little too. 425 pop outs are tough to swallow sometimes.

I know you were at the game, but next time you watch on TV, what do you think of the new camera angle? I think I like it, but I want to see more.