2017/18 BORAS Position Player Contract Projections: I Tried

As much as I have been impressed by the performance of my BORAS pitcher contract projections, I have been pretty equally unimpressed with last year's position player projection.  To be clear, the models are different.  Different inputs, obviously, which for pitchers track well, but is still a mess for position players.  One of the major issues is that fielding ability is measured differently by each team and can vary significantly over the years even within one club.  There may also be some deviation in what kind of skills are appreciated over the years being more dynamic than it is for pitchers.

Long story short, we will be using these contract projections, but the model is not the strongest.  Anyway, we will still be using these figures to inform our 2017/18 Blueprint series.  Tomorrow, I will post more information about that and invite our readers to provide their own blueprints in addition to the ones our writers are developing.  At the end, I will review them and choose what I think makes the most sense moving forward.

Here are the position player projections:

		AGE	YR	2017 AAV
Alex	Avila	31	3	34.1
Welington	Castillo	31	2	24.4
Nick	Hundley	34	1	8.9
Chris	Ianetta	35	1	8.7
Jonathan	Lucroy	32	1	10.9
Yonder	Alonso	31	2	18.7
Lucas	Duda	32	2	19.6
Eric	Hosmer	28	4	61.2
Adam	Lind	34	1	7.9
Mitch	Moreland	32	2	21.4
Logan	Morison	30	3	34.8
Mark	Reynolds	34	1	9.5
Carlos	Santana	32	3	45.2
Howie	Kendrick	34	1	10.6
Neil	Walker	32	2	22.3
Zack	Cozart	32	4	59.3
Todd	Frazier	32	3	50.6
Mike	Moustakas	29	3	34.2
Eduardo	Nunez	31	2	20.8
Jarrod	Dyson	33	2	25.2
Curtis	Granderson	37	1	12.7
Jonathan	Jay	33	1	9.2
JD	Martinez	30	4	64.8
Cameron	Maybin	31	2	21.8
Justin	Upton	30	5	83.9
Lorenzo	Cain	32	5	92.2
Carlos	Gomez	32	2	21.2
Austin	Jackson	31	2	21.8
Jay	Bruce	31	3	30.1
Carlos	Gonzalez	32	1	8.6