82
82
I'll say 85 wins.
Votto, Bruce, Cueto, Frazier, Mes, and Leake have nice seasons. But a wobbly pen and the #4 and #5 starters keep them from truly contending.
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84.
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86 Wins
School's out. What did you expect?
90 wins
72
They'll be just good enough to not be sellers at the trade deadline, and the Reds fade into the finish line.
71 wins
(I promise I'm not a pessimist)
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
90 wins according to kpresidente's projection system:
I don't see where I'm going so wrong to justify all the pessimism.Code:PCT W L PYTHAG .554 90 72 BATTERS PA OBP SLG RC Votto 650 .411 .501 114 Frazier 650 .320 .439 84 Hamilton 650 .305 .370 69 Bruce 650 .325 .476 92 Phillips 550 .311 .391 62 Cozart 550 .280 .326 48 Mesoraco 500 .340 .510 79 Boesch 350 .314 .435 45 Byrd 300 .307 .390 34 Negron 275 .305 .324 25 Schumaker 250 .312 .314 22 All Others 350 .274 .301 27 Pena 175 .320 .338 17 Dejesus 100 .280 .297 8 TOTALS 6000 .321 .406 719 PITCHERS IP R ER ERA Cueto 230 76 70 2.74 Leake 215 96 90 3.77 Bailey 205 82 77 3.38 DeSclafini 180 90 85 4.25 Marquis 125 72 69 4.97 Iglesias 100 48 45 4.05 Chapman 75 17 15 1.80 Cingrani 70 21 19 2.44 All Others 65 35 33 4.57 Badenhop 60 25 23 3.45 Diaz 50 20 19 3.42 Gregg 50 25 24 4.32 Parra 40 20 19 4.28 Hoover 35 18 17 4.37 TOTALS 1500 645 605 3.63
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92 Wins
This season is a guess really - it could go any number of ways, but I'm going to choose to be optimistic and expect the questions to fall mostly in the positive column. I'll go with 87 wins.
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80 wins
84 (the missus says 89, God bless her) and praying I'm about a dozen wins too low. I fear being about 8 too high, but I'm hoping....
Byrd helps offense, but starting pitching regresses. 77 wins
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