Predictions

The past few years I have done a prediction survey with people who write and talk about the Phillies and baseball in general. This year I got 34 responses to the survey, which included writers from The Good Phight, Crashburn Alley, Baseball Prospectus, Fangraphs, Phuture Phillies, and others (including radio broadcasters). All submissions from experts are recorded … Read more

The past few years I have done a prediction survey with people who write and talk about the Phillies and baseball in general. This year I got 31 responses to the survey, which included writers from The Good Phight, Crashburn Alley, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, and others (including radio broadcasters). This year I forgot to … Read more

At the beginning of the year I made a bunch of stats predictions as an exercise in thinking about players, level of competition, park factors, and other things. I was wrong on a lot of things, so might as well revisit it. The original predictions are here. Batting Average:  Prediction: Rhys Hoskins Actual: Mark Laird … Read more

I had all these minor league predictions written out, but they just rehash a lot of the things I say all the time. I think Jose Pujols will have a breakout year, but still have a lot of questions. Ricardo Pinto will be good, as will Nick Pivetta. Carlos Tocci and Roman Quinn will hit for more … Read more

For the second year in a row I polled the blog and writing community about what they think will happen during the Phillies’s 2016 season.  You can read last year’s results here, where everyone but Eric Chesterton guessed wrong about which prospect makes the biggest impact during the 2015 season.  My goal was to make … Read more

At the beginning of the season (actually a week or so in) I put out some minor league predictions.  Mostly they were aimed at being funny and talking about some potential trends in the organization.  Either way it is just as fun to loop back around and see how I did. 1.  Carlos Tocci hits more … Read more

I have had the draft for this post around for a while and keep forgetting to publish it so I get to cheat a little but with a week of data that could be either instructive or misleading.  Anyway I think predictions are fun to think about, and so I viewed making this with more … Read more