Five takeaways from the 2019 Yankees ZiPS projections

Spring Training is underway and that means two things. One, baseball is back! Hooray for that. And two, prospect ranking season and projection season have arrived. We’ve already seen a ton of prospect rankings. Earlier this week, Dan Szymborski released his ZiPS projections for the 2019 Yankees. The fancy graphic above shows the team’s WAR projection by position. Spoiler. The Yankees project to be very good. I don’t think we needed ZiPS to tell us that.

Obligatory reminder: Projections are not predictions. They are an attempt to estimate the player’s current talent level. There are more projection systems out there than I care to count and they all go about it in different ways. Is one…