Projected bWARs of selected players and pitchers

[DavidGee24]

After 71 games. Your average bWAR over a full season for a starting player or starting pitcher is about 1.7.

Encarnacion 4.5
Haniger 3.4
Vogelbach 3.0
Narvaez 2.0
Murphy 2.0
Gordon 1.1
Santana 1.1
Beckham 0.9
Healy 0.2
Smith minus 0.2
Moore minus 1.1

Leake 3.9
Gonzalez 0.9
Kikuchi 0.9

Some thoughts:
Haniger has hit a bunch of home runs but I'm just not seeing the 3.4
Being a DH is a bit of a handicap so Vogie's 3.0 is better than it looks
BOTH catchers at 2.0
Santana's 1.1 is a lot better than Gordon's 1.1
I can see Smith clawing his way back up by season's end, maybe to 1.0, which still stinks
We have a utility player who is actually going to lose three games all by himself this season in Moore, which is almost impossible for a utility player
Leake 3.9? HOW?!?

[:::]

Man, gotta capitalize on EE and Leake's value ASAP.

[D-train]

Here is projected fWAR


Name
Daniel Vogelbach 4.3
Edwin Encarnacion 3.8
Omar Narvaez 2.9
Mitch Haniger 2.7
Tom Murphy 2.5
Jay Bruce 1.4
Dee Gordon 1.4
Domingo Santana 1.1
J.P. Crawford 1.1
Kyle Seager 1.1
Shed Long 0.9
Tim Beckham 0.7
Mallex Smith -0.2
Mac Williamson -0.2
Ryon Healy -0.5
Dylan Moore -0.5
Braden Bishop -0.9

[D-train]

Marco Gonzales 2.7
Yusei Kikuchi 0.9
Tommy Milone 0.7
Roenis Elias 0.7
Austin Adams 0.5
Anthony Bass 0.5
Cory Gearrin 0.5
Mike Leake 0.5
Felix Hernandez 0.5
Brandon Brennan 0.5
Connor Sadzeck 0.2
Zac Rosscup 0.2
Mike Wright Jr. 0.2
Wade LeBlanc 0.2
Matthew Festa 0.0
Erik Swanson -0.7
Chasen Bradford -0.9
Anthony Swarzak -1.4

[bpj]

We dont see Hanigers WAR because you don't have to do anything but have a pulse to pile WAR in CF.

[DavidGee24]

We dont see Hanigers WAR because you don't have to do anything but have a pulse to pile WAR in CF.

Thats actually very true, just look at Willie Mays' and Hank Aaron's WARs over the years. No way was Mays 3-4 WAR better than Aaron every year.

[bpj]

We dont see Hanigers WAR because you don't have to do anything but have a pulse to pile WAR in CF.

Thats actually very true, just look at Willie Mays' and Hank Aaron's WARs over the years. No way was Mays 3-4 WAR better than Aaron every year.

And, guys like Nyjer Morgan and Franklin Gutierrez aren't and never were 5 or 6 WAR players despite what Fangraphs' dumbass says.