GM's OFFICE: Christian Yelich and regression, revisited
Jun 28 2019
Christian Yelich has been absolutely bonkers this year. How bonkers? It's not even July yet, and he's already slayed our Opening Day projection:
Yelich AB R HR RBI SB BA OPS 5x5 ====== === === == === == === === === BF19 proj 593 107 27 100 21 306 903 $38(*) OD proj 576 104 26 97 20 305 900 $34 YTD 274 63 29 63 17 332 1149 $49
(*)- projected $ values in the book use a different pricing formula than here on the web site.
Clearly, my recommendation to sell high on Yelich back in mid-April did not hold up well.
We generally shy away from evaluating our projections or process in-season. But we can safely make an exception here: short of going...
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