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Pratfalls in Primitive Prognostication

Earlier this year a tweet brought back some long-forgotten fun with projections:

Rubén Sierra was signed by Texas as a 17-year-old out of Puerto Rico in 1982, back before P.R. was added to the MLB draft (in 1990, along with Canada). He came up with the Rangers in 1986 at 20, and had a solid first three seasons in right field — OPS+’s in the low 100s, including a 30-HR season at 21 in 1987 (a big hitter’s year). Then in 1989, at 23, he hit .