Chat with BP's Nate Silver, Wed at 3 PM Options

[philly sox fan]

We're happy to have Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus (and more specifically the creator of the PECOTA projections) stop by to do a chat.

People who are subscribers know that the PECOTA cards have been a drawn out delivery this year but the hitter cards were posted this weekend with the pitcher cards expected soon-ish. In part due to that we haven't yet settled on an exact time, but we'll be handling this like previous "chats" where we simply ask for questions and let Nate answer at his convenience. As a result we'll open this thread up to questions.

I assume there will be a lot of specific interest in the PECOTA process, but any baseball related questions are welcome.

Just a few things I've noticed perusing the hitter cards and some things that Nate has mentioned previously:

- the new cards feature platoon splits
- because predicting 5 years of performance was apparently too easy the new cards feature 7(!) year forcasts
- draft status and signing bonus totals are now included which has led to projections for players without professional experience like David Price
- as a result of a change in the underlying Davenport Translations very young minor leaguers project much worse than they used too

And a whole lot more, I'm sure.

Edit: And thanks to Hairps for facilitating the chat.