Good. Very, very good.

.375/.475/.675 54 HR 155 RBI

How many games should he have played?

8 more, because he should have rested a few and that would have led to him hopefully not winding up aggrivating the ankle and winding up on the DL.

.312, 36 HR, 109 RBI

 

 

280/340/480 - 31 HR

Would there be interest if we made a spreadsheet with everyone's picks for like 5-10 Abreu categories, and then at the end of the year you get a rank for each category. For example, whoever is closest to guessing his HRs gets a 1 for HR category. Say the next closest is a tie they both get a 2 and the next poster would get a 4. Like golf, lowest score total gets the trophy. I think it would be fun only because his numbers could be anywhere from good to ridiculous. And we could post leaderboards every month or something. I think some good formulas in excel could probably spit out leaderboards simply by inputting Abreu's current stats.

I'll go something like Frank's 93 season...

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomafr04.shtml

I'm with you there, but I'll say his '92 season except less walks, more strikeouts, but more homers. So basically less OBP, but OPS and average stay the same.

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I'm actually going to say the 2nd half Abreu is more who he will be.

 

.320 avg, 28 HR, 118 RBI, .403 OBP.

Would there be interest if we made a spreadsheet with everyone's picks for like 5-10 Abreu categories, and then at the end of the year you get a rank for each category. For example, whoever is closest to guessing his HRs gets a 1 for HR category. Say the next closest is a tie they both get a 2 and the next poster would get a 4. Like golf, lowest score total gets the trophy. I think it would be fun only because his numbers could be anywhere from good to ridiculous. And we could post leaderboards every month or something. I think some good formulas in excel could probably spit out leaderboards simply by inputting Abreu's current stats.

 

Fire it up. I also think when these threads start we need to QFT the prediction before your post. Just saying there may have been some editing going on in last year's prediction thread. Maybe we could lock the thread at some point.

This Cuban dynamo was awesome last year - .317, 36, 107, .964. Can he do better? He certainly seemed to learn as the season went on in terms of batting average, while he lost a bit of power down the stretch. So... what's he going to do this year?

 

My guess is

 

.305/42/118/1.002

Been there ,done that ,nailed it . However I will say I think his OBP reaches over .400

Would there be interest if we made a spreadsheet with everyone's picks for like 5-10 Abreu categories, and then at the end of the year you get a rank for each category. For example, whoever is closest to guessing his HRs gets a 1 for HR category. Say the next closest is a tie they both get a 2 and the next poster would get a 4. Like golf, lowest score total gets the trophy. I think it would be fun only because his numbers could be anywhere from good to ridiculous. And we could post leaderboards every month or something. I think some good formulas in excel could probably spit out leaderboards simply by inputting Abreu's current stats.

Oh fine now do it when everyone expects great things. :PLast year the predictions were hopeful yet not expecting much. Now they all will be pretty much a like . If you do it it needs to be done with as many categories as possible since many of the predictions will be nearly the same and more categories will separate the pack.

.325, 41, 121, .410 OBP.

.298 35HR 124RBI .416 OBP

Barring injury, this kid might hit better than Frank, IMO. He won't necessarily get the same career numbers, because he got a later start in the bigs. But we will be looking at several MVP type seasons.

Barring injury, this kid might hit better than Frank, IMO. He won't necessarily get the same career numbers, because he got a later start in the bigs. But we will be looking at several MVP type seasons.

 

Sloooowww down there, buddy. You can arguably count on one hand the guys in baseball history who hit better than peak Frank Thomas.

.298 35HR 124RBI .416 OBP

.298 but .416 OBP ? That's a lot of walks. How's he going to get 124 RBI walking so much ?

Barring injury, this kid might hit better than Frank, IMO. He won't necessarily get the same career numbers, because he got a later start in the bigs. But we will be looking at several MVP type seasons.

 

i like to drink sox kool aid with the best of them, i sometimes am guilty of spiking my drink, but you pour a whole bottle of your favorite in with the sox kool aid to think that.

Barring injury, this kid might hit better than Frank, IMO. He won't necessarily get the same career numbers, because he got a later start in the bigs. But we will be looking at several MVP type seasons.

 

 

niceeeeee...

.327/37 HR/119 RBI

 

 

Sloooowww down there, buddy. You can arguably count on one hand the guys in baseball history who hit better than peak Frank Thomas.

 

I remember very early on there was a person who predicted that Dayan Viciedo would end up hitting more homers than Frank.

I remember very early on there was a person who predicted that Dayan Viciedo would end up hitting more homers than Frank.

I remember when some were predicting 50 homer seasons for Josh Fields. He was 16 short of that. For his career.

.354 58 149...lol old Price is Right watcher...lol

Honestly he should do real well with R.B.I's this year and I think his #'s will be better than last yrs.

 

Touché, since you clearly overbid, I'm changing mine to .001 1 hr 1 RBI

I remember when some were predicting 50 homer seasons for Josh Fields. He was 16 short of that. For his career.

 

Well played Dick

I remember when some were predicting 50 homer seasons for Josh Fields. He was 16 short of that. For his career.

He's still hitting adequately out there for every AAA team in the minors, so I wouldn't put his career in the past tense just yet. That magical season is still a possibility!