Jeromy Burnitz

2005 key stats: .258/.322/.435 with 31 2B, 2 3B, and 24 HRs in 671 PAs (605 ABs)
2006 ZiPS: .240/.311/.412 with 26, 2, and 21 in 541 ABs

I have never like Jeromy Burnitz. I can't believe we signed Jeromy Burnitz for the money we signed him to. He's old and besides his year in Colorado he's been terrible of late. The more I think about it, the less I want to talk about it. I don't really want to talk about it. I'll be shocked if this signing turns out to be much better than Derek Bell. I'm gonna say .230/.300/.390.


That does it for the starters predictions. I may do some reserves as one post next week, and I'm going to wait for camp to open up to do the pitchers. I'll stick a link over on the right in a little bit as a central predictions thread to link to all of them for anyone that is looking to go back over them at any time (UPDATE: It's over there in the sidebar now).

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