are there 2006 projections for major league baseball players?
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Yahoo in a way gives a preseason ranking.Look at available players in your league.Notice there are two rankings.O-Rank is off season rank,and is where they think the player will finish this year.Rank is where they finished last year.
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I can't find anyone by that name having every played in the majors.  So the answer is "no".
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Here:\nhttp://www.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/index.jsp?sid=wbc
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As many have already said\nthe addition of Sheffield will only shore up thier offense.\nThey need a lead-off hitter who can get on base, Granderson was ok there---but he strikes out too much for that spot.\n\nAs it stands now (before the winter meetings) I think they have a good shot of making the play-offs. Division or wild card. I am sure The Twins will be there as well.\n\nJemery Bonderman will only get better.\nJustin Verlander threw more innings last year then he ever has.\nThat might hurt him some in '07.\nBut, hopefully he doesnt fall to that "sophmore jinx"\nWith Zumaya out of the bullpen, throwing 102 mph, will help.\n\nBrandon Inge needs to buy a hitting bat, not a swinging one.\nMags, Pudge, and Guillen need to stay healthy if they are going to make a run at it.\nThey pitching looks good, and good pitching will beat good hitting.\nOf course, that is assuming they will produce as well as last year. Which is not always the case. Just ask the white sox.\n\nRe-signing Sean Casey was a smart move. His left handed bat will be well suited for that right field fence.\nChris Shelton is a question mark. No one knows for sure where he will end up. If he does well in spring training (which, btw, is only 75 days away for pitchers and catchers to report) he might have a roster spot. Chances are Shelton will end up in Toledo for most of the year to work on his swing.\n\nI look forward to playing The Yankees again, where i know it wont be easy. They will want to get even next year, and it will be fun to watch them play.\n\nWhatever happens, I doubt they finish under .500!\nIt will be nice to see them contend for several years, even if they dont win the WC or division, because after 12 years in a row of being under .500 Tiger fans deserve a good decent team.\n\nI know I babble a lot about The Tigers (cant help it! I'm a Tiger fan for life!) but I think they will be good, and make the playoffs.
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No.  I think a National League team will take it.  They seem to have made the bigger moves during the off-season.
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2006 Roster Pitcher \n# Name Pos Bat Thw Ht Wt DOB \n3 Calvin Medlock RHP Right Right 5-9 184 11/8/1982 \n7 (DL) David Shafer RHP Right Right 6-2 191 3/7/1982 \n12 Brock Till RHP Right Right 5-10 210 7/1/1980 \n19 Jon Coutlangus LHP Left Left 6-1 180 10/21/1980 \n20 Travis Chick RHP Right Right 6-3 215 6/10/1984 \n21 Homer Bailey RHP Right Right 6-4 205 5/3/1986 \n22 Josh Hall RHP Right Right 6-3 195 12/16/1980 \n30 Carlos Guevara RHP Right Right 5-11 191 3/18/1982 \n31 Carlos Alvarado RHP Right Right 6-4 210 1/24/1978 \n33 Edward Valdez RHP Right Right 6-4 190 2/8/1980 \n39 Tyler Pelland LHP Right Left 5-11 203 10/9/1983 \n\nCatcher \n# Name Pos Bat Thw Ht Wt DOB \n15 Ryan Hanigan C Right Right 6-0 295 8/16/1980 \n28 (DL)Rafael Motooka  C Right Right 5-10 210 9/25/1982 \n29 Miguel Perez C Right Right 6-3 190 9/25/1983 \n\nInfielder \n# Name Pos Bat Thw Ht Wt DOB \n5 Joey Votto INF Left Right 6-3 220 9/10/1983 \n9 Anderson Machado INF Switch Right 5-11 160 1/25/1981 \n10 Luis Bolivar INF Right Right 160 182 2/15/1981 \n11 Javier Colina INF Right Right 6-1 180 2/15/1979 \n38 Aaron Herr INF Right Right 6-0 205 3/7/1981 \n\nOutfielder \n# Name Pos Bat Thw Ht Wt DOB \n2 Javon Moran OF Right Right 5-10 170 9/30/1982 \n4 Rick Asadoorian  OF Right Right 6-2 201 7/23/1980 \n16 Noochie Varner OF Right Right 6-0 180 12/7/1980 \n27 Chris Dickerson  OF Left Left 6-3 226 4/10/1982 \n\nCoaching Staff \n# Name Pos Bat Thw Ht Wt DOB \n32 Jayhawk Owens--Manager       \n37 Bill Moloney--Pitching Coach       \n44 Jamie Dismuke--Hitting Coach\n\nI know it's not a starting lineup, but it is the best that I could do.
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Do you have any supporting info? Like a career field?\nThere's only one hit in a yahoo search, and that's a 2003 baseball roster.\nSorry.
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Big names on the market: John Smoltz, Willis, Zito, Carlos Lee and Alfonso Soriano.\nThe chances of more than one of them being traded is very slim. However, there's a lot of less marquee players like Livan Hernandez that could make a huge difference for teams. \nComplete list of players on the trade market: http://www.mlb4u.com/block.php
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They should be a little more interesting to watch...Alex Gordon > 2005 college player of the year >2006 Minor League player of the year >2007 we'll see, but Gordon has a chance to be a star..\n\nBilly Butler is only 20, and, he can flat out hit, will he make the big club?\n\nIt would be nice to see Mike Sweeney actually play a full season, it is a contract year for Sweeney so he's going to have a little more incentive than usual to put up numbers...\n\nMark Teahen is one of the best young 3B in all of baseball, \n\nDavid Dejesus plays gold glove caliber defense,no that's not right actually he played better defense last year than any of the three(OF) gold glove winners in the AL.  I look for his offensive numbers to get slightly better next year...\n\nEstaban German is playing winter ball in hopes of improving his defense to the point he would no longer be a liability in the field...\n\nThe Royals need to do something about Catcher and Shortstop...John Buck and Angel Berroa have got to go...\n\nMark Grudzielanek will be solid again at second...\n\nEmil Brown improved his defense to the point last year that he's now a solid ML outfielder....\n\nAlmost no matter what the Royals do with their pitching staff next year it could not be any worse than 2006...I don't look for any huge improvement, but, I do look for the pitching to be a little better...\n\nI don't look for Luke Hochaver to start the season in KC but maybe by the All Star break they will give him a shot...\n\nJimmy Gobble has good stuff he just need to learn to keep the ball in the park...\n\nHudson - Hernandez - Redman, should at least burn up some innings\n\nThe bullpen should be improved.\n\nThe Royals are not going to go .500 next year, but they should win a few more games..Hopefully the young guys will make a big splash...
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AL & NL Rookie of the Year - November 13th\nNL Cy Young - November 14th\nAL & NL Manager of the Year - November 15th\nAL Cy Young - November 16th\nNL MVP - November 20th\nAL MVP - November 21st\n\n Here's a page that gives the dates for all of them:\n\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/awards/y2006/index.jsp
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try www.mlbapparel.com
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Do you mean include players from around the league?  And is "best" this season?  If so, here it is(stats as of 4:33 on June 10, 2006, three OF instead of separate because the positions are so similar):\nC:Mauer .384 AVG 5 HR 30 R 31 RBI 6 SB He's only 23, too\n1B:Pujols .308 25 52 65 2 Any question?\n2B:Utley .313 12 52 39 6 He's everything you want in a 2B \n3B:A-Rod .286 13 49 45 5 Beats Wright on career expectations\nSS:Tejada .331 13 49 46 2 SBs only do so much for Reyes\nOF:Soriano .303 23 48 46 14 Would be best 2B\nOF:Bay .313 19 44 52 5 This young Canadian is good\nOF:Beltran .294 17 43 44 10 Back to form after terrible '05\nDH:Thome .289 21 48 53 0 Narrowly edges out Hafner\nSP:Mussina 8-1 78 K 2.67 ERA 1.00 ERA Tearing up batters\nSP:Schilling 9-2 77 3.81 1.03 High ERA only flaw\nSP:P.Martinez 5-2 94 3.01 0.88 Still doing great in New York\nSP:Arroyo 8-0 68 2.31 1.10  Never heard of him?  Join the club.\nSP:Webb 8-0 65 2.14 1.08 Only undefeated on this staff\nAnd because I'm having fun\nRP: John Papelbon 20 SV 31 0.30 0.63 Incredible rookie season\n\nThere you have it.
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Yes. The way baseball is now teams that can spend a lot of money, and do it wisely, stand a much better chance of being competitive. I expect that both teams will be in the playoffs this year and I'd give it a 1 in 4 chance that there will be one this year.
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See the link.\nhttp://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020228test.html
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although it's no guarantee, it looks like the mets have a great shot at winning the nl east in 2006.\n\nthe 2005 standings:\n\natlanta: 90-72\nphilly:  88-74\nmets:    83-79\nflorida: 83-79\nwash:    81-81\n\nnow, washington performed well above what was expected of them, as they gave up 30 more runs than they scored.  florida has traded all of their talent for prospects.  therefore, those 2 teams are likely not going to win the division.\n\natlanta lost their leadoff batter and sparkplug rafael furcal and replaced him with edgar renteria, who was great two years ago but does not provide the same offensive or defensive weapons that furcal does.  atlanta also got a monster year out of andruw jones, who likely will not repeat that performance.  also, the braves lost their closer, kyle farnsworth, to the yankees and will likely go with chris reitsma, who was good but not great last year in limited duty.  however, the young players on the braves roster such as jeff francoeur, adam laroche, and ryan langerhans should develop further.  also, a full season of former mvp chipper jones would be helpful.  that leaves the braves with a good chance to win 90 games again.  \n\nthe phillies traded jim thome to the white sox for aaron rowand, which improves their team even though i feel they should have gotten more for thome.  with a shot at first base for a full season, ryan howard should put up some incredible numbers.  chase utley, their 2nd baseman, should also leap to stardom this year.  however, the phillies other big star, bobby abreu, wants to be traded, and that most likely means that the phils will not get full value for him.  lastly, they lost their elite closer, billy wagner, to the mets.  tom gordon, though he's old, should be a serviceable replacement, but will not be as lights-out as wagner.  unless brett myers becomes consistent and shows he can be an ace, the phillies pitching staff is comprised basically of a #2 starter, 3 #3 starters and a #4.  many teams would be happy with that pitching staff, but it doesn't win the division for you.\n\nthat leaves the mets.  the mets record last year was worse than it should have been, as they scored many more runs than they gave up.  trading for carlos delgado to replace the worst 1b positional output in the majors will be a big boost.  signing wagner to close instead of the shaky braden looper will help a lot as well, as looper blew 8 of 36 save chances.  add in the continued development of david wright, who exploded at the end of last season, and jose reyes, as well as a bounceback year for center fielder carlos beltran, and the mets look very good up and down.  paul lo duca should provide similar numbers to last year's fading mike piazza, but should also stay healthy, as the mets backup, ramon castro, is solid and should play every fourth game or so.  the mike cameron-xavier nady trade made a lot of people say "huh?", but it's actually good for the mets, as victor diaz has proven himself worthy of a shot to play in right field every day.  if jae seo gets a chance to start for the full season and performs like he did at the end of last season, he will be a solid #2 pitcher.  problems could include the aging of tom glavine and steve trachsel, the inconsistency of kris benson, and the lack of bullpen depth.  i'm not convinced that uber-GM omar minaya won't get his team more help in the bullpen, with rumors abound that the mets wish to sign danys baez, the devil rays all-star closer, to set up for wagner.\n\nall in all, this mets team could win 100 games and take the nl east easily.
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the detroit tigers by far are the biggest surprise in the majors this year.  no baseball pundits, no fans, not the detroit media, or even most if not all of the players thought they would be in the situation they are in right now...looking back, we can see the foundation of this club set in with bonderman, maroth, etc.; but that's only when looking from now... this team has the players to be this year's white sox, but we'll see in october.
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Ok, so I'm aware of the basics of player valuation. I'm in a head to head fantasy point league...I've used some projections to determine how many fantasy points each player is projected to earn. Then I determined the useful fantasy points by subtracting the last player drafted at each position. But I still have a couple of questions about this strategy.\n\n1.) When subtracting for useful fantasy points, should I be subtracting the last player drafted at each position or the last player that will be a starter at that position? I'm in a 16 team league (23 round draft, 16 starters, 7 bench players per team). Intuitively, it would make sense for me to only subtract the fantasy points from the last player that will be a starter at each position, because only starters can earn points anyway. \n\n2.) Using this system, are you supposed to draft solely based on the useful points? Because to me it seems like this would not account for scarcity. If you were deciding between Carlos Beltran and Miguel Tejada, the numbers would indicate that Beltran is a better pick because he would earn more useful points. But the difference between Beltran and next OF is much less than the difference between Tejada and the next SS. So to me, it would seem that Tejada is actually more valuable because you stand to "lose" more by not taking him. So, is there a way to incorporate scarcity into the useful fantasy point number? My only thought was maybe by including the dropoff between the next player at that position.