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Hits & Misses in Stat Predictions

In February, I predicted which players could have team leading statistics at the end of this season. Let’s look at what actually happened in games through 19 September. Stats were from Baseball Reference, FanGraphs, Baseball Savant, and the Fielding Bible.

Some stat leaders were mostly as expected.

Seth Beer led the team with 1.389 OPS & 267 OPS+, .444 ISO, 260 wRC+, .500 OBP, .100 homers per PA, and .400 hits per PA.

The prediction was, “Matching the ZiPS projection for 2021 would result in .039 Homers per PA, the third highest on the team.