MLB.com's Projected 2008 stats

For fantasy purposes, mlb.com has projected certain stats. Here are some Tigers totals...

C Pudge - 488 AB, .277 AVG, 60 R, 8 HR 70 RBI, 2 SB, .300 OBP, .408 SLG, .708 OPS
1B Carlos Guillen - 558 AB, .305 AVG, 98 R, 20 HR, 104 RBI, 11 SB, .364 OBP, .511 SLG, .875 OPS
2B Placido Polanco - 568 AB, .316 AVG, 102 R, 8 HR, 62 RBI, 6 SB, .364 OBP, .433 SLG, .797 OPS
SS Edgar Renteria - 558 AB, .286 AVG, 97 R, 10 HR, 68 RBI, 11 SB, .355 OBP, .424 SLG, .779 OPS
3B Miguel Cabrera - 595 AB, .336 AVG, 106 R, 33 HR, 128 RBI, 4 SB, .417 OBP, .609 SLG, 1.026 OPS
OF Magglio Ordonez - 583 AB, .328 AVG, 104 R, 28 HR, 117 RBI, 3 SB, .411 OBP, .551 SLG, .962 OPS
OF Curtis Granderson - 605 AB, .285 AVG, 119 R, 25 HR, 76 RBI, 22 SB, .363 OBP, .536 SLG, .899 OPS
OF Jacques Jones - 410 AB, .282 AVG, 50 R, 8 HR, 58 RBI, 6 SB, .331 OBP, .412 SLG, .743 OPS
DH Gary Sheffield - 505 AB, .293 AVG, 106 R, 26 HR, 91 RBI, 13 SB, .376 OBP, .507 SLG, .883 OPS

OF/2B Ryan Raburn - 215 AB, .284 AVG, 34 R, 7 HR, 32 RBI, 5 SB, .351 OBP, .488 SLG, .839 OPS
OF Marcus Thames - 288 AB, .255 AVG, 46 R, 21 HR, 43 RBI, 1 SB, .315 OBP, .551 SLG, .866 OPS
OF Timo Perez - 105 AB, .281 AVG, 12 R, 0 HR, 9 RBI, 1 SB, .325 OBP, .349 SLG, .674 OPS
3B Brandon Inge - 388 AB, .249 AVG, 54 R, 14 HR, 51 RBI, 6 SB, .304 OBP, .402 SLG, .706 OPS
SS Ramon Santiago - 195 AB, .254 AVG, 19 R, 3 HR, 17 RBI, 5 SB, .302 OBP, .353 SLG, .655 OPS
C Vance Wilson - N/A

Notable - Total runs scored - 1007

Coming up, pitchers...

SP Justin Verlander - 18-7, 200 IP, 187 H, 66 BB, 193 K, 3.37 ERA, 1.26 WHIP
SP Jeremy Bonderman - 14-9, 183 IP, 193 H, 53 BB, 158 K, 4.09 ERA, 1.34 WHIP
SP Dontrelle Willis - 12-10, 226 IP, 249 H, 74 BB, 151 K, 4.49 ERA, 1.43 WHIP
SP Nate Robertson - 12-12, 192 IP, 206 H, 65 BB, 126 K, 4.46 ERA, 1.41 WHIP
SP Kenny Rogers - 11-7, 164 IP, 182 H, 52 BB, 81 K, 4.56 ERA, 1.43 WHIP

SP Virgil Vasquez - 3-2, 60 IP, 63 H, 17 BB, 43 K, 4.72 ERA, 1.33 WHIP

RP Todd Jones - 1-6, 32 SV, 62 IP, 67 H, 19 BB, 26 K, 4.63 ERA, 1.39 WHIP
RP Fernando Rodney - 6-3, 5 SV, 61 IP, 50 H, 25 BB, 57 K, 3.62 ERA, 1.23 WHIP
RP Joel Zumaya - 2-2, 4 SV, 39 IP, 25 H, 17 BB, 36 K, 3.66 ERA, 1.08 WHIP

That's 79 wins! Grilli, Seay, Cruceta, Miner, Bazardo will have to come up with 11 more between them for 90...

No HR for Pudge???

bobrob2004 wrote:

SP Vrigil Vasquez 1.33 WHOP

WHOP?

Seriously though, 18 wins for Verlander! Yeah, it's a meaningless stat, but I still care. Hopefully he can get 7 more K's though - 200 is so much better than 193.

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SP Vrigil Vasquez - 3-2, 60 IP, 63 H, 17 BB, 43 K, 4.72 ERA, 1.33 WHOP

One WHOPer of a pitcher!

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

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SP Vrigil Vasquez - 3-2, 60 IP, 63 H, 17 BB, 43 K, 4.72 ERA, 1.33 WHOP

One WHOPer of a pitcher!

Mmm...Burger King! I can't wait to go home in 8 days! I haven't had any meat in a month....and I'm not even a vegetarian!

Something with meat sure makes a better dinner than plain oatmeal.


To stay on topic, those are respectable numbers for Virgil Matthew Vasquez. I'll take that.

A whopper sounds good to me, I have been eating lots of canned vegges for dinner. Cheap, but sort of good for you. Rather have good fresh organic veggies. Don't think I could eat much plain old oatmeal.

Catbox, do you have a recipe for home made mild tomato based salsa for snacking?

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

A whopper sounds good to me, I have been eating lots of canned vegges for dinner. Cheap, but sort of good for you. Rather have good fresh organic veggies. Don't think I could eat much plain old oatmeal.

Catbox, do you have a recipe for home made mild tomato based salsa for snacking?

Salsa:

Take 1 tomato.
Take 1 onion.
Dice them both.
Take some cilantro and dice that in there.
Chop up some green onion and throw that in
Add a clove of garlic.
Add salt and pepper to taste...or skip the salt. I never use salt for anything.

Normally you add a jalapeno, but that makes it less mild (I guess).

Mango Salsa (not tomato based though):
1 mango (can you get mangos where you are?)
1 peach
2 cloves of garlic
1 Tbsp fresh ginger root
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
2 tbsp. lime juice



Actually, salsa is very easy to make. If you want tomato-based add tomato and onion in pretty much any ratio you see fit. Next, add anything that resembles a pepper in pretty much any ratio (red, bell, green, and yellow peppers for example [wait, isn't a bell pepper one of the other kind I just mentioned?]). Add cucumber, and pretty much any other vegetable. Garlic is good, too.

In general, following a recipe is a bad way to make your own salsa. Just make about 3/4 of the amount you want and taste it. If one ingredient is too weak or too strong, adjust accordingly.

thanks cat!

Oh, don't blend it. I tried making salsa last week and blended it because the recipe said to. It wasn't very good - it tastes like the gazpacho I tried to make a while back - not very good.

The only utensil you should use is a knife. Cut it up as fine as you want/can with a knife, but no finer than that.