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2015 IBC Rangers vs. 2014 IBC Rangers

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In 2014 we Rangers dealt with major injuries to projected headliners Yu Darvish, Prince Fielder, Josh Beckett and Jurickson Profar but benefited from a down year in the AL West to win 93 games.

The injuries make the correlation between how last season projected (zWAR projection to well over 100 wins) and turned out (93 wins), and then how this year might turn out, a little less interesting, but I can still compare what zippy zips zip thought of my roster then versus now.

(2014: viewtopic.php?t=4955)

OUTFIELD/DH

2014
LF - Alex Gordon - 4
CF - Michael Bourn -3
RF - Greg Polanco/Chris Young platoon - 4
DH - Prince Fielder - 3
Bench: Josh Willingham, Ryan Sweeney

2015
LF - Alex Gordon - 4.3
CF - Greg Polanco - 3.3
RF - Hanley Ramirez - 2.7 (may get a position penalty but zips only has him for 495 PA)
DH - Prince Fielder - 1.2
Bench: Chris Young (1.5), Domonic Brown (0.8)

Pretty close. This batch may be a little better rounded, but I may wind up having to use Hanley in the infield some and Prince has a rough projection this time.


INFIELD

2014
3B - Garin Cecchini - 2
SS - Hanley Ramirez - 4
2B - Jurickson Profar - 3
1B - Miguel Cabrera - 5
C - Matt Wieters - 4
Bench: Rougned Odor, Jordy Mercer, Jonathan Schoop

2015
3B - Hector Olivera - ?
SS - Addison Russell - 1.9
2B - Rougned Odor - 1.8
1B - Miguel Cabrera - 4.8
C - Matt Wieters - 2.5
Bench: David Freese (1.3), Francisco Cervelli (0.9), Robinson Chirinos (1.1)

Middle infield takes a hit with the 20-year-olds, but the depth is a little better.


STARTING PITCHING

2014
Yu Darvish - 6
James Shields - 4
Travis Wood - 2
Josh Beckett - 1
Yordano Ventura - 2
Extras: Roberto Hernandez, Alex Colome, Alex White, Steven Matz

2015
Yu Darvish - 5.0
Phil Hughes - 4.0
James Shields - 3.7
Yordano Ventura - 3.6
CJ Edwards - 1.0 (in just 80 IP)
Extras: Alex Colome (0.8 in 102 IP), Manny Banuelos ()

The rotation is the one area of improvement, but injuries would cripple us.


BULLPEN

2014
Sergio Romo - ? (didn't have it at the time, too lazy to look it up)
Tyler Clippard - ? (didn't have it at the time, too lazy to look it up)
Alexi Ogando - 2
Brett Cecil - 1
Kevin Siegrist - 1
Casey Fien - 0


2015
Tyler Clippard - 1.1
Sergio Romo - 0.6
Brett Cecil - 0.7
Ray Black - 0.2 (in 34 IP)
Kevin Siegrist - 0.5
Phil Klein - 0.6

I think that a couple of those '14's were round-ups. Largely the same group with similar numbers, but there is a bit of an injection of youth.


NO PROJECTION

2014: CJ Edwards, Raul Mondesi, Gleyber Torres, Franchy Cordero, Ronald Guzman, Christian Arroyo, Ricardo Sanchez

2015: Raul Mondesi, Spencer Adams, Gleyber Torres, Franchy Cordero, Ronald Guzman, Christian Arroyo, Ricardo Sanchez, Michael De Leon
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