Now that pitchers and catchers have reported, it’s time to look back at the Bronx Pinstripes team’s free agent predictions. Last year, we did not do well. As a group, we were 15/140 (.107), and that includes six out of ten of us getting Gerrit Cole to the Yankees correct.
This year we did much better. We were 43/144 (.299) — if batting average was still a predominant stat, we’d be better than Mickey Mantle.Â
Here are the full results (turn mobile device to landscape):
Some highlights:
- Of course, everyone got DJ LeMahieu right, while no one guessed Tanaka would go back to Japan.
- Everyone struck out on Trevor Bauer and George Springer.
- Jeff made some bold predictions, namely thinking Nelson Cruz would go to the Rays and Justin Turner would go to the Mets. Alas, both ended up not happening.
- Shoutout to Twitchy for being the only one to get Liam Hendricks right and Mike for being the only to get Jose Quintana right.
- Of the 18 free agents we predicted, we got nine of them all wrong. We made our money on players such as LeMahieu, Cruz, and Turner — guys who were expected to return to their current teams.
We made a big improvement in our predictions this offseason compared to last. That can only mean the Yankees will make a similar improvement from 2020 to 2021.
