I thought it would be interesting to crowdsource projections for how much we'll see from each player in the Sox' employ this year. This is not about projecting players' performance, beyond how often we'll see them on the field (and where).
So give us your guesstimates. For position players, games started by position plus plate appearances. For pitchers, games started and innings pitched. PA projections should add to up 6150, IP to 1450 (last year's league averages per team).
I chose to stick to players already on our roster, but if you want to get speculative and include predictions for Mike Carp or somebody like that, go for it.
Here we go:
Position players -- starts by position
C -- Salty 85, Ross 65, Lavarnway 12
1B -- Napoli 120, Salty 20, Gomez 10, Overbay 8
2B -- Pedroia 150, Ciriaco 7, Holt 5
SS -- Drew 130, Ciriaco 15, Iglesias 8, Holt 6, Bogaerts 3
3B -- Middlebrooks 145, Ciriaco 10, Holt 7
LF -- Gomes 95, Nava 50, Kalish 10, Hassan 5, Brentz 2
CF -- Ellsbury 150, Victorino 5, Kalish 5, Bradley 2
RF -- Victorino 135, Kalish 15, Gomes 5, Nava 5, Brentz 2
DH -- Ortiz 125, Napoli 15, Gomes 10, Gomez 10, Bogaerts 2
PA by player
Ellsbury 675
Pedroia 650
Middlebrooks 600
Victorino 575
Napoli 575
Ortiz 525
Drew 525
Gomes 450
Salty 425
Ross 275
Nava 230
Ciriaco 125
Kalish 125
Gomez 110
Holt 75
Lavarnway 50
Iglesias 30
Overbay 30
Hassan 25
Bradley 25
Brentz 25
Bogaerts 25
Pitching--starts:
Lester 30
Dempster 30
Buchholz 27
Lackey 27
Doubront 25
de la Rosa 12
Morales 6
Webster 2
Wright 1
Britton 1
Hernandez 1
Pitching--IP:
Lester 200
Dempster 185
Lackey 175
Buchholz 170
Doubront 165
de la Rosa 70
Tazawa 65
Uehara 60
Morales 60
Hanrahan 55
Bard 55
Breslow 50
Bailey 50
Miller 45
Webster 10
Wilson 10
Hernandez 5
Beato 5
Britton 5
Wright 5
