ZiPS Rest of Season Projections for Royals Hitters

By Jeff Zimmerman May 30, 2012, 8:31pm EDT

CLEVELAND, OH - MAY 28: Third baseman Mike Moustakas #8 of the Kansas City Royals argues a call with second base umpire Dan Bellino during the third inning at Progressive Field on May 28, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)

The ZiPS projection system uses current and previous season stats to project how previous players with similar stats have historically performed. Here are the current projections for the ROS (rest of season) for the Royals hitters:

Name	H	HR	R	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	wOBA	Fld	WAR
Mike Moustakas	116	14	51	57	0.274	0.320	0.441	0.761	0.329	3.8	3.0
Alex Gordon	107	13	60	50	0.270	0.351	0.443	0.794	0.346	3.4	2.9
Billy Butler	123	16	52	62	0.294	0.361	0.476	0.837	0.358	-2.6	2.2
Alcides Escobar	110	3	51	32	0.276	0.314	0.371	0.685	0.303	2.1	2.1
Eric Hosmer	126	14	56	57	0.288	0.340	0.452	0.792	0.344	-3.7	1.9
Jeff Francoeur	114	12	50	50	0.275	0.321	0.439	0.759	0.325	-0.7	1.6
Lorenzo Cain	79	4	38	27	0.256	0.313	0.360	0.673	0.299	0.6	1.0
Chris Getz	67	1	32	21	0.268	0.322	0.336	0.658	0.299	1.5	0.9
Brayan Pena	43	3	13	18	0.265	0.302	0.383	0.685	0.296	1.9	0.9
Johnny Giavotella	102	5	51	39	0.268	0.318	0.378	0.696	0.305	-0.6	0.8
Mitch Maier	43	3	23	16	0.238	0.315	0.359	0.674	0.299	0.0	0.6
Jarrod Dyson	65	1	39	18	0.242	0.298	0.305	0.603	0.282	0.6	0.4
Humberto Quintero	45	2	17	20	0.238	0.268	0.339	0.606	0.263	0.8	0.4
Jason Bourgeois	63	2	29	17	0.273	0.310	0.351	0.661	0.297	-1.7	0.3
Irving Falu	75	1	35	22	0.257	0.298	0.318	0.617	0.272	1.1	0.3
Yuniesky Betancourt	88	7	33	38	0.263	0.289	0.391	0.680	0.292	-5.5	0.2

Notes:

Several people have stated elsewhere on this website that if Escobar continues to produce at this level and we get nothing from Cain and Odorizzi, we will "win" the Greinke trade.
Frenchy looks to have a decent season ahead of him. I don't see it.
ZiPs hates Yuni worse than we do.
The Moose is loose.