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.
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
