2023 projected standings for major league baseball teams. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Cleveland is fairly unscathed, with the drop-off in wins reflecting a drop-off in the overall projections for the roster. I dont believe thats a safe assumption at all. While its still taken as an assumption that hell return, the fact is he didnt sign before the 2021 season, he didnt sign during the 2021 season, and he didnt sign before the lockout. Below are the projections for the Washington Nationals. Still, if they make the playoffs in 2022 as close a certainty youll get in baseball these days theyll join the 19912005 Atlanta Braves and the 19952007 New York Yankees as the only teams in history to make the playoffs for an entire decade. Baltimore had the excuse of being a good team in a tough division, in which absolutely maximizing wins had a great deal of value. The exercise continues this offseason. Approximately minutes of joyous analysis. These 2023 projections are guaranteed to be awful, wrong in many ways ranging from tragic to comic. The exercise continues this offseason. ATC is smart aggregation of other projections; its methodology is based on the process that Nate Silver uses with his political forecasting model over at FiveThirtyEight. Projected lineup. Unlike the last two disappointing seasons, they should have enough talent to succeed without deGrom leading the rotation. The last move giving Rodrguez the chance to start with the team may be the biggest source. I remain on the record that I think the Tigers are better than ZiPS thinks, and its nice to see that Detroit isnt going to play games with Spencer Torkelsons playing time. They had a fantastic offseason, adding Kevin Gausman to replace reigning AL CY Young winner Robbie Ray as well as adding to the back of their rotation with Yusei Kikuchi. Now, hes the big loss, but Jameson Taillon and Matt Carpenter matter, too, though it isnt likely that Carpenter will match his 2022 performance anyway. Since these are my curated projections, I make changes based on my personal feelings about who will receive playing time, as filtered through arbitrary whimsy my logic and reasoning. That doesn't leave much time to handicap 2022 MLB win totals. Ostensibly, theyre allowing him time to work on his defense since he could be moving off shortstop sooner rather than later, but hed at least give fans in Pittsburgh something to get excited about. That they can do for $25M and trades. The Blue Jays strengths are undeniable: a potent lineup that scored the third-most runs in baseball last year, and the best projected starting rotation based on our 50/50 blend of FIP and RA9. The haul of prospects theyre getting back in these trades should form the core of the next great As roster hopefully right around when a new stadium on the Oakland waterfront is opening up. Play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted No fucking way they are that low next year. tbh I wouldn't give these projections any credit until the offseason finishes. The ATC Projections have been available on the pages of FanGraphs since 2017. Posey retired, Kevin Gausman left to the Blue Jays, and Kris Bryant is a free agent and likely not going back to the Giants. Fangraphs 2022 Projected Standings 1399 points 617 comments 78 45 comments Take_Some_Soma SD '84 1 yr. ago Fool me once, shame on you. Would half their analysis department possess Ph.D.s in physics? Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Dan Szymborski is a senior writer for FanGraphs and the developer of the ZiPS projection system. It's our predicted best guess on the early college basketball rankings after Week 11. Renfroe is actually helpful for an organization that has proven bad at surrounding its stars with secondary talent, but theres a lot to do if the Angels are going to even maintain this place in the standings. The Rays are another possible answer, though. : 0767266154 or via messenger Facebook page. Sure, finishing his Atlanta career with a World Series trophy is a storybook ending, but thats for a 39-year-old Freeman, so lets can the epilogue for now. I dont think they expected to be able to sign him to an extension. The Jays get the top place in the table with the highest divisional odds. The exercise continues this offseason. It boggles the mind to wonder what the Rockies would be like if their front office operated like the Rays front office. Actually, the reason theyve spent no money is that Dolan is cheap and knows hell make money win or lose. A full year of Byron Buxton would be a huge boost, and the Twins have got plenty of supplemental talent in the lineup in Jorge Polanco, Max Kepler, and Miguel San. An 85% chance to make the playoffs and a 9% chance to win the World Series at this point is high praise. But it would be a lot easier to do if they could bring back Freddie Freeman. Their presence should give fans in Arizona something to be optimistic about, even as the current roster flounders. Any team led by Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani has the potential to be one of the best in all of baseball. On the offensive side of things, they added Jorge Soler, Avisal Garca, Joey Wendle, and Jacob Stallings, giving them a lineup that could be good enough to support their young pitching. With Joey Votto, reigning NL Rookie of the Year Jonathan India, Luis Castillo, and Tyler Mahle still on the roster, Cincinnati has some talent left, but it was a very confusing process to get to this point. Standings at this point are a poor predictor of the 2023 season and even the eventual 2023 projections themselves but what they are able to do is give a state of the union estimate for each team. Not when they need a 2B, at least one OF, maybe a C and P. Until he actually puts his pen to the dotted line, anything can happen, and until then, first base is the Braves biggest weakness. So there you go, if projection models are your thing, thats all good news from two of the biggest sites in the baseball community. He also maintains a terrible Twitter account at @DSzymborski. In truth, the projections for Arizona were so positive on the whole that I actually went back and double-checked every park factor and calculation specific to the Diamondbacks and their minor league affiliates. I talked quite a lot about Francos outlook when he he signed his big ol contract extension, so I wont rehash that here. Dont worry, they still have between $0M and $10M in payroll space and 1 top-100 prospect, plus a couple others in the 100-200 range that could be traded to help the roster. Shane Bazs elbow injury is concerning, but Yonny Chirinos should be making a return from his own elbow injury and Corey Kluber was signed to give them a little more stability in their rotation. Make no mistake even with their long-time franchise icon out of the picture after 12 seasons, the Braves are reloaded and ready to rock. Not having Xander Bogaerts hurts the Red Sox quite a bit, but ZiPS already liked Boston better than their 2022 record and a few of the guys on the edge of the roster (Ceddanne Rafaela, Enmanuel Valdez) have fairly solid projections. Yikes. by Handedness, The Hopefully-Not-Horrifyingly-Inaccurate 2022 ZiPS Projections: American League, ATC 2022 Projected Standings and Playoff Odds, The Angels Believe In the Youth in Their Outfield. They rode an excellent bullpen and some clutch hitting to a 90-win season but fell short of breaking their historic playoff drought by just two games. Read the rest of this entry . And thats where all these models are built. The Yankees entered the offseason with clear needs at shortstop and first base, and in the starting rotation and yet didnt sign any of the many big name free agents who could have filled those holes. If I were a Rockies fan, Id have voted to legalize psychedelic mushrooms, too. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Well start with the AL East: You shouldnt be surprised to see the Yankees crash back to earth here, based on the simple fact that the dude worth 11.4 WAR for them this past season hint, its not Tim Locastro is currently unsigned. Completely bonkers if the payroll stays there, but since it ranged from $136M-$157M from 2017-2019 Id say its a safe bet to increase. Both models also assign less than a 2% chance to the Rockies, Orioles, Athletics, Diamondbacks and Pirates making the playoffs. Follow him on Twitter @jakemailhot. ZiPS is projecting a solid return for Ronald Acua Jr., but theres still some danger in that outfield. The Mets might have snuck into the bottom of the second tier if Jacob deGrom hadnt gotten hurt this spring, sidelining him for the first half of the season. Every Wednesday until November 30th: Daimon Latino Nights. Can the Braves win the World Series again? It wasn't even some fluke of shift-related positioning; only four of those 10 bunts came with three. Luke Voit was a nice pickup from the Yankees, and a last-minute trade for Sean Manaea solidified their rotation. They project the Braves, or at least the current version of the Braves, to a post a 91-71 record, winning the division by one game over the New York Mets. Toronto also projects to have the lowest downside of any of the AL East contenders. Confusingly, Lowe wasnt even one of the American Leagues four Silver Slugger finalists at second base in 2021, as his .863 OPS apparently wasnt up to the standards of DJ LeMahieu (.711 OPS, about half his games not at second). Of the 10 bases-empty bunts that he attempted in 2022, eight went towards first base. Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Not sure thats really true. FanGraphs simulates each season 10,000 times to generate the probabilities. That thins out their pitching staff significantly; theyre now relying on a 40-year-old Adam Wainwright to lead the rotation and are counting on the health of Miles Mikolas, Dakota Hudson, and Jordan Hicks after that trio combined for 29 appearances over the last two years. Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Vladito versus Olson for supremacy in the AL should be a fun battle the next few years, though the former is likely to vanquish the latter for good in a few years given their respective ages. Much like FanGraphs, PECOTA really likes the Braves in 2022, which hasn't always been the case. That move alters the direction of the organization considerably. Yup! The FGDC model has them at 83% to make the postseason (31% to win the division), while ATC has them at 75% (just 25% for the division). They also need to figure out how to solve the Coors Field hangover effect; over the last five seasons the Rockies have won 55.4% of their games at home and just 43.2% of their games on the road. So when I see them drop on my timeline sometime around mid-March every year, its an instant click of me. As usual, dont hesitate to tweet us or comment below with fantasy questions. 2022 Projected Standings. ATC further sets itself apart from other statistical aggregation methods. The projections havent figured out how to handle the Rays brand of excessively deep roster construction. Read the rest of this entry . Their entire system is proprietary to their site but as they describe it, its a system that takes a players past performance and tries to project the most likely outcome for the following season. Of course, thats what every projection model attempts to do but all in different ways. The result is a million different rosters for each team and an associated winning percentage for each of those million teams. Thats a trickier question, given the contours of the roster. Its a deeper roster than last year, and even if areas like the bullpen arent exciting, the Jays have heirs and spares in place. This is actually much less complex than it sounds. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. Gone are Gausman, Cueto, Buster Posey, Kris Bryant, Donovan Solano and a host of other role players. The talent was evident, but ownership was clearly reluctant to spend any additional money or prospect capital to supplement the core again. The problem with the 2022 Angels was, if you can believe this, not their pitching. The exercise continues this offseason. After that is done, ZiPS applies another set of algorithms with a generalized distribution of injury risk, which change the baseline PAs/IPs selected for each player. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. I guess this explains why theyve spent no money this offseason. The last move giving Rodrguez the chance to start with the team may be the biggest source. Duke Blue Devils 13-5 (24) ATC gives San Diego four fewer wins on the 2022 season equating to 60% odds of making the playoffs versus FGDCs 77%. I dont see them trading for Murphy. ZiPS projects McNeil's 2023 BABIP to be .316, in line with his career average of .314, accounting for much of the batting average drop. Fangraphs: 2022 Top 100 Prospects. Just get into the playoffs so I can wear my playoff poncho and swag chain!!! Well start with Fangraphs. 2023 ZiPS Projected Standings AL Central, 2023 ZiPS Projected Standings NL Central. The success of ATC stems from minimizing parameter risk across the player pool, which you can read more about here. by Handedness, The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1124 2023 1B Rankings Preview #1, https://media.blubrry.com/rotographs/cdn-podcasts.fangraphs.com/RotoGraphs-Audio-01-09-2023.mp3, Justin Masons Baseball Chat January 9th, 2023. Please enter a valid email and try again. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon!! Its insane. If you dont know, FanGraphs uses both the Steamer and ZiPS projection systems for the individual inputs in their model. Been watching a bunch of old games and it's amazing to [Passan] Outfielder Juan Soto and the San Diego Padres Nightengale: DH Nelson Cruz has agreed to a one-year [Lin] Jake Cronenworth and the Padres avoided arbitration Press J to jump to the feed. Which is what the Chisox are supposed to do on $10M. Despite a disappointing debut in 2021 that. Braves News: Dana Brown Interviews with Astros, Thoughts on Extending Max Fried, more, Keeping Max Fried is more important than Freddie Freeman or Dansby Swanson. ZiPS projects the Rockies to be better than only the Nationals, but I expect the Nats have a better idea of exactly where their team is than the Rockies do. The least the team could do is let the Orioles faithful have some fun at the ballpark. These projected standings do take the strength of schedule into consideration, which will be a bit more uniform now that the league has rebalanced the schedule. Whether the anti-service time manipulation rules in the new CBA influenced many teams to carry their top prospects on their Opening Day rosters is up for debate. Its hard to get where you want to go if you dont know where youre starting. They swung a major trade with the Twins to get Josh Donaldson and Isiah Kiner-Falefa and also re-signed Anthony Rizzo. You start with two easy Hall of Famers and then about 40 seconds later, youre reassembling the late-80s Braves. Not by much but their minimum payroll boost looks to be in the $15-25M. Boston should have no problem scoring runs in 2022, but theres a lack of depth in the rotation one that got even thinner when Chris Sale fractured a rib this spring. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. Depth Charts: FanGraphs Depth Chart projections are a combination of ZiPS and Steamer projections with playing time allocated by our staff. In came Mike Minor, Tommy Pham, Solano, and a few other role players. Its supposed to be, fool me once shame on you, fool me cant get fooled again.. by Retrosheet. These two NL Central rivals feel like theyre heading in different directions despite being projected for the same win totals in 2022. Thats not to say their offseason was a failure. The Guardians have a brand-new identity and just locked up the face of their franchise, Jos Ramrez, to a huge extension. The exercise continues this offseason. Signing Corey Seager and Marcus Semien is a great place to begin, though. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. The exercise continues this offseason. That level of divisional chaos is sure to delight Jay Jaffe, my colleague and GM of Team Entropy or at least it would if MLB hadnt made the decision to eliminate tiebreaker games in 2022, going instead with NFL-style tiebreak procedures only. Tampa Bay won 100 games last year, and the bulk of that same roster returns in 2022.. So under the current format, they make it in as the first wildcard and have to face * checks notes * Jacob DeGrom or Corbin Burnes in a 1 game playoff. They use those projections to calculate how many runs a given team will score and allow over a full season, use that to come up with an expected winning percentage for each team, and then uses that winning percentage and run a Monte Carlo simulation for a full 162 games. It arrived stressfully, chaotically, and slightly late, but the 2022 season is here. Podcasts: FanGraphs Audio . If those additions can elevate the production of their pitching staff, and Trout, Ohtani, and Anthony Rendon can stay healthy, the Angels could have a shot at toppling the Astros in the AL West. The surprises start at the top, with the Braves sitting ahead of the Dodgers for the top spot in the preseason rankings. It feels a little weird to be optimistic about the Mets after the season they just had (or perhaps because the Mets are one of the worlds most powerful pessimism-inducing entities). The White Sox should still be more comfortable than they were before the Twins collapsed last season, as Minnesota hasnt completely solved its rotation woes. Correa is a serious loss for the Astros, but they still project as the most complete team in the division. ), Cleveland will outspend them in add-ons. Daimon Latino Nights is open every Wednesday from 8 PM to 2 AM. by Retrosheet. Thats another reason I love FanGraphs odds because they update daily throughout the season as records and rosters change. Out went Gray, Castellanos, Barnhart, Winker, Surez, Wade Miley and Amir Garrett. As you can see, FanGraphs is pretty high on the 2022 team. Visit ESPN for the box score of the Toronto Raptors vs. Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball game on January 17, 2023 ZiPS then automatically fills in playing time from the next players on the list (proportionally) to get to a full slate of plate appearances and innings. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. After having typically appeared in the hallowed pages of Baseball Think Factory, Dan Szymborskis ZiPS projections have now been released at FanGraphs for a decade. Theres no trick here; Im not going to say, Ha ha! The Braves have short-term and long-terms questions in their rotation that are still waiting to be answered. Dan Szymborski is a senior writer for FanGraphs and the developer of the ZiPS projection system. But the same question that has hung over their recent run of success remains for this squad: will they score enough runs to support their excellent pitching staff? 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