2015 Steamer Projections for the Orioles' Arbitration-Eligible Hitters

Last week, I looked at the Orioles' pitchers who are arbitration eligible this off-season. This post is on the arbitration-eligible hitters. Just like last week, my purpose is not to offer opinions or projections, but instead to provide what I hope is a useful resource as the baseball off-season gets ready to start.

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Chris Davis
Arbitration year 3
2014 salary: $10.35 million

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	525	94	0.5
2015 Projection	1*	119	0.0*

*Counting projections are not yet available for most players who didn’t end the season on a team’s roster. As you can see from wRC+, Davis is projected to be 19% above average next season, offensively 

Matt Wieters
Arbitration year 3
2014 salary: $7.7 million

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	112	134	0.9
2015 Projection	535	103	4.0

Alejandro De Aza
Arbitration year 3
2014 salary: $4.25 million

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	528	94	1.4
2015 Projection	532	104	1.8

Steve Pearce
Arbitration year 3
2014 salary: $850K

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	383	161	4.9
2015 Projection	637	131	3.9

Steve Lombardozzi 
Arbitration year 1
2014 salary: $517K

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	74	73	-0.3
2015 Projection	1*	80	0.0*

Ryan Flaherty
Arbitration year 1
2014 salary: $512K

	PA	wRC+	fWAR
2014	312	79	0.6
2015 Projection	226	84	0.4

Just like when I did the pitchers, I'm not condoning or condemning the projections here. Instead, I put this together as a resource to use during the off-season, and included a widely used projection system to help give a reference point for the arbitration-eligible players. If you want to look through projections on your own, head over to Fangraphs, where you can find them on each individual players' page.