2010 Player Projections - Alex Gordon

I’d maybe expect a dash more power.

IF he plays 150 games. That’s a big if.

although that’s not based on anything rational, really

and some on others (like Bloomquist and questioning how Guillen will show up), but is Alex Gordon 100% at the start of the season? Not as much talk about him as usual this time of year. Last year it was all about how much work he’d done in the winter and how bulked up he was.

Maybe a few points higher in AVG and OBP, but not enough that I felt like I could warrant putting “Better.” I’d be just fine with him putting up those numbers and playing solid defense. Better than Teahen last year and certainly better than Josh Fields.

The best thing one can say about Gordon’s 2009 in the majors is that at least is was less than 200 PA — small sample size!

While some things remained generally the same (majors only) — K rate and BB rate about the same as 2008, and, heck, his HR/FB rate was better, his increased GB% and decreased LD% would be kinda scary. Now, they are a bit meaningful, as LD/GB rate “stabilize” more quickly than other stats, but it’s still a small sample.

I’m staunchly against saying “that was just because of injury” to explain away a players bad performance as irrelevant (cf Ankiel, Rick), because if the injury was so bad one season, are we supposed to pretend it won’t have any effect gong forward? Having said that, if Gordon’s doing better with the hip injury than he was, maybe he’ll be able to get better loft on the ball instead of driving it into the ground as he so often did in 2009. Because that was one of the more promising parts of his hitting pre-2009 — getting the ball in the air is a Good Thing, most of the time.

Over on the games played so the counting stats go up. I think the fans vote is fairly on, and I might even be so bold as to go 25 homers.

I hope to Christ I’m right.

i see him sitting vs about 50% of LHP’s in favor of Callaspo.

…which is probably something like “nothing”, here are the averages of the 4 projections:

G – 137
AB – 446
HR – 16
AVG – .268
OBP – .354
SLG – .448

I’ll call it the METAFWIW projection

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almost 25%. Does that have anything to do with his approach? His injury? His lack of patience?

And how much does that have to improve in order for him to have a career year?

.261/16/60 with 70 runs, .335 OBP, .422 SLG, .757 OPS

and he is injury prone so it could be a shorten season for McSmirk. That being said, I sincerely hope that I am wrong on everything.

from watching so many games at Nebraska and on. Always thought his head got in his way but I was severly disappointed by last seasons injury.

I think he’s got .280/.360/.500 in his swing somewhere but I think it might be in Petco park and not in Kauffman. I definitely expect him to get back to ‘08 numbers if he stays healthy but won’t reach his peak.

I’ve never had fun watchin him all these years he is Robocop compared to DeJesus’s Barney.