OBG08 Revisited: Pitchers
Friday, October 10, 2008by Geoff Young
We're looking back at our pre-season community projections. On Wednesday we covered the hitters; today we turn to the pitchers.
Left-Handers
Justin Hampson, 2008
IPERA
Projected484.21
Actual30.22.93
Our most optimistic projection had Hampson at a 3.50 ERA.
Joe Thatcher, 2008
IPERA
Projected582.86
Actual25.28.42
We missed this about as badly as we could. So did other people: CHONE had Thatcher's ERA at 3.67, Marcels had it at 3.86, ZiPS at 2.96.
Randy Wolf, 2008
IPERA
Projected1244.18
Actual190.14.30
Wolf's ERA for the Padres was 4.74. The bigger shock is that he made it through a season healthy for the first time since 2003. I wouldn't mind seeing him back in San Diego next year. I can think of worse options, many of which I got to see firsthand after Wolf was traded to the Astros.
Right-Hander...
