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2010 Projections: Bill James Annual edition

I have to be brief here, because even as the VEB counter starts registering today's hits I am sitting in an airport in Springfield, waiting to go to Chicago, waiting to go to Japan. But I was sent this year's Bill James Handbook projections in the mail, and in the offseason, well, what else are we going to talk about? Have a look:

NAME G AB H 2B 3B HR R RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Yadier Molina 136 485 135 24 0 7 42 59 44 41 5 3 .278 .343 .371 .714
Albert Pujols 158 579 193 45 1 44 121 129 106 63 11 5 .333 .433 .642 1.085
Skip Schumaker 150 510 151 28 2 5 72 39 45 59 4 2 .296 .353 .388 .741
Mark DeRosa 140 507 132 27 1 17 76 71 51 115 3 2 .260 .335 .418 .753
Brendan Ryan 146 452 121 21 4 4 65 33 31 61 16 7 .268 .319 .358 .677
Matt Holliday 155 605 191 43 3 27 105 109 66 112 14 6 .316 .391 .531 .922
Colby Rasmus 147 471 119 26 2 18 75 55 47 91 8 3 .253 .323 .431 .754
Ryan Ludwick 149 511 138 31 1 26 77 93 48 129 3 3 .270 .339 .487 .826
Julio Lugo 97 320 83 17 2 4 41 31 32 58 11 4 .259 .332 .363 .695
Tyler Greene 71 208 52 9 1 6 31 20 15 53 13 3 .250 .307 .389 .696
Mike Cameron 149 561 133 32 3 23 79 74 71 171 11 5 .237 .328 .428 .756

"James's" projections—he does not, apparently, have much of a hand in them, as any projection work he did would probably be property of the Boston Red Sox—are typically very optimistic on offense, so take these with the usual untrustworthy spices. 

1. Who had Tyler Greene with the highest OPS among shortstops? Young Greene had an exciting year in Memphis, lost in the Boogstravaganza, and I think he'll make an excellent reserve—I love his career 113-15 SB:CS ratio in the minors. But I'm a little worried about an offensive regression from Boog, and more worried still about what would happen on the game threads if La Russa kept batting him second anyway. Someone remind him about damage in the two spot, just in case. 

2. I said two spot instead of two hole there, even though I think La Russa uses "hole" more often, just to avoid a really off-color that's what she said joke. 

3. That Colby Rasmus line would crush me. Seriously, I don't know what I'd do. It's a significant improvement from .251/.307/.407, but I want to see .270/.340/.475. I'm going to be crying breakout wolf all season; I can feel it already. 

4. No David Freese projection, but that DeRosa projection might as well scream "Just start David Freese!" 

If I go to sleep right now I'll get about four hours' sleep—so I'll go to sleep right now. I'll try to set the pitchers' projections up for tomorrow; I've got some serious layover.