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left-handed starter stepped up and became a true ace pitcher. Instead http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey , it was something of a lost season."2018 Rating: 6.382017 Rating: 9.28 (-2.90)2018 Performance: 24 G, 123.2 IP, 6-2, 3.93 ERA, 4.31 FIP, 110 ERA+, 12.0 K/9, 5.1 BB/9, 19 HR, 1.4 bWAR, 1.3 fWAR2018 $3,950,0002019 Status: Arbitration-2 (est. $6,100,000)2018 is a season that Robbie Ray would probably choose to forget if he could. In Ray’s very first appearance of the season, the left-hander managed to surrender seven runs (six earned) on seven hits and three walks in five innings of work. At the end of the day, the man who was being looked at as an emerging ace in baseball had an ERA north of 10.50. In his next four outings, Ray was alternately good and bad. In his good starts, he was able to pitch six full innings and limit the opposition to two or fewer runs. In both of the other starts, Ray went 4.2 innings while allowing three earned runs. In both of those games, his pitch count resulted in an early exit and extra work for the bullpen. Then, on April 29, as he took the mound to make his sixth start of the season, things turned from bad to worse for Ray. Only four outs and 20 pitches into the game, Ray was taken out due to injury. He had strained his oblique.Ray spent the next eight weeks on the DL. During that time Arizona was forced to deal with a number of rotation issues. Part of the solution for the problems was Robbie Ray. Set to make his last rehab appearance Wil Myers Jersey , Robbie Ray was preparing to fly with the Reno Aces to Las Vegas when he received a phone call informing him he needed to instead be heading to South Beach. Rather than making a final rehab start against a AAA team with little chance of hitting ihs stuff, Ray was brought back to start against the Miami Marlins on June 27. Ray’s first start back from injury was a much better one than his first start of the season. In a game where Torey Lovullo anticipated having to keep a close, careful eye on Ray, his starter threw six innings of shutout ball, striking six and only walking two. What was more was, he managed to do it all with only 83 pitches.Ray’s next four outings did not go so well. Old, familiar demons came back to haunt Ray. Once again, Ray was demonstrating an inability to put batters away early in the count. His average pitches per batter rose as he started trying to pain the corners rather than attacking the zone. Walks were up. Home runs were up. Opponent scoring was up. Despite the lack of pitching depth in the Arizona system, Robbie Ray looked to be pitching his way right out of the rotation.Then, in late-July, Ray took the moundin Chicago against the Cubs. The Diamondbacks were still pacing the field for the NL West and the Cubs were looking good to make the playoffs themselves. In a game against a competitive team, Ray went seven innings, walking only one and allowing only four hits. It was one of his best outings of the year, the second time he had managed a game score of 70 or higher.That game in Chicago seemed to be a turning of the page for Ray. Over his final 12 starts after that game, Ray only failed to pitch five or more innings in two of his outings. One of those was the Diamondbacks’ final game of the season, a game where it can be argued that Arizona was not exactly trying terribly hard. They fielded what was mostly a C-squad for the game and pulled Ray after he allowed two runs in four innings of work. Even with that poor outing, over the final 13 starts of the season, Ray pitched to a 2.83 ERA and averaged over 5.1 innings per outing. Included in that stretch was a second face-off against the Cubs where he pitched six full innings of shutout ball and struck out eight for another game score of 70+. This came on September 19, when the Cubs were fighting for their postseason lives.While the final outing of the season for Ray and the Diamondbacks was not a good one, Ray can still hang his hat on turning his season around over the last two 10 weeks of the season. While still not pitching into the seventh inning with regularity, Ray was once again an arm that could b relied upon to give a quality outing. The team’s lack of offense had far more to do with its struggles in Ray’s final 13 starts than any struggles Ray may or may not have been having.OutlookIf and when Zack Grienke is traded this winter, Ray will more or less slot as the team’s number one pitcher for the opening of the 2019 season. He’s due another raise through arbitration, but will still only be making a touch over $6 million. If the Robbie Ray of the final 2鈦? of 2017 and the last 10 weeks of 2018 shows up, the Diamondbacks will be in a good place with him atop the rotation. If, once again Rickey Henderson Jersey , Ray struggles to put away hitters and finds himself unable to work into the fifth and sixth innings, then the Diamondbacks will have themselves a classic five-and-dive pitcher that should slot into the middle of a rotation more than the top. With the team only controlling Ray through 2020, there is also a strong chance that Ray could be traded, either this winter, or at the trade deadline - especially if he performs well early in the season. Assuming Ray is with the team on opening day (the most likely outcome) and that he shows his late-2018 form, expect him to be one of the most-discussed potential trade pieces in baseball until he is traded, extended, or the deadline passes. Considering that the Angels 2019 roster is all but set in stone, it’s time to take a look at what we might expect out of this team. FanGraphs has their Depth Chart predictions which take into..."Considering that the Angels 2019 roster is all but set in stone, it’s time to take a look at what we might expect out of this team. FanGraphs has their Depth Chart predictions which take into account Steamer, Depth Charts (aka predicting playing time), and ZiPS - the later of which are not yet out, so these numbers may change once those are released.Instead of focusing on every single player (though their data is included below), I’m going to take a stab at which players will outperform their projections and which players may under perform. I didn’t include the players who I thought would perform close to their predictions which was quite of few of them.OVERMike Trout (.441 OBP / 9.3 WAR)Trout just keeps getting better and everyone knows it. If he doesn’t get himself injured again in 2019, he should easily outperform his current estimates. In the past three years, Trout’s OBP has been .441, .442, .460 while his WAR has been 9.6, 6.9, 9.8. Keep in mind that the 9.8 was ONLY over 140 games. After two years in which Trout averaged only 127 games, the Angels really need him to stay healthy all season - and if he does it’s a no brainer what his final numbers will look like.Shohei Ohtani (26 HR, 2.7 WAR)Ohtani’s power is ridiculous and although pitchers will adjust to him - so will he adjust. Not only that, Ohtai has not yet reached peak power age and if he get at least 490 PA’s as is projected, he might just hit 30+ home runs. I see Ohtani as a 30 HR / 15 SB guy if he gets to 500 PAs, and he certainly has a shot at 3+ WAR as well.Andrelton Simmons (102 wRC+ http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey , 4.2 WAR)Simba has been a huge offensive boost for the Angels over the past two seasons and has improved each year in lowering his K rate, increasing BABIP and AVG, and putting up two back to back 5+ WAR seasons with wRC+ of 103 an 109. All that and he doesn’t turn 30 until the end of the season so there is every reason to believe he can keep performing at that 5+ WAR pace for at least another year or two.David Fletcher (.312 OBP, 1.9 WAR)In 2018, Fletcher put up a 1.9 WAR in just 80 games. FanGraphs has him projected at 143 games in 2019 which should be the case unless Rengifo steals his job and Cozart looks like his 2017 version. I expect that he will mature as a hitter and top his .316 from last year to put him somewhere in the .320+ range and 2.0+ WAR.Keynan Middleton (3.94 ERA, 25 IP)Middleton will be coming back from TJ surgery, but all indications are that his rehab is going well. It’s not unrealistic to see him toss more in the 30 inning range, especially if he returns in June. In two seasons, Middleton has a career 3.43 ERA and 4.24 FIP with the Angels, both of which I seem him improving upon in 2019.Ty Buttrey (3.71 ERA, 0.5 WAR)Buttrey has some very impressive moments in 2018, including a 0.8 WAR and 3.31 ERA in 16.1 IP.He has the stuff to be a solid piece as the back end of the bullpen and should at least match his 2018 ERA and probably go over 1.0 WAR.UNDERKole Calhoun (.242 AVG, 21 HR, 2.0 WAR)If you are to believe the middle of Calhoun’s season last year, then the above numbers may be possible. However, Calhoun is getting older and he struggled in a huge way at the beginning of the season as well as at the end in which he hit only .125 over the last month of the season. The Angels need Calhoun to be better than that but I don’t see him hitting any of the above numbers in 2019.Zack Cozart (.315 OBP, 3.1 WAR)First, Cozart needs to come back strong from a pretty major surgery. On top of that, he has only had one season in his career in which he put up a WAR greater than 2.0 (5.0 in 2017). Cozart also has a career .304 OBP and has only gone to .315 or higher once in his career as well (also in 2017). Those numbers are aggressive for Cozart who may end up in the 1.0-2.0 WAR range and closer to a .300 or .310 OBP.Albert Pujols (.299 OBP, 0.1 WAR)The projections aren’t kind of Pujols who is predicted to only make 100 games and 420 plate appearances. However, his OBP hasn’t been above .289 since 2016 and he has back to back negative fWAR seasons. If Pujols can have a postive fWAR and an OBP near .300 I’d call that a win but it doesn’t seem possible as he continues to break down.Cam Bedrosian (4.05 ERA, 0.2 WAR)Bedrosian has been on a decline the past 3 years and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s not on the team by mid season. Over the past 3 seasons his K rate has gone down each year while his walk rate has gone up. Bedrosian has also seen his average fastball velocity dip 3 MPH since 2016 and he just isn’t missing that many bats.FULL PROJECTIONS:Position Player ProjectionsNameGPA2B3BHRRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWARNameGPA2B3BHRRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWARStarter ProjectionsNameWLERAGIPHERHRSOBBWHIPK/9BB/9FIPWARNameWLERAGIPHERHRSOBBWHIPK/9BB/9FIPWARBullpen ProjectionsNameWLSVERAIPHERHRSOBBWHIPK/9BB/9FIPWARNameWLSVERAIPHERHRSOBBWHIPK/9BB/9FIPWAR