GM's OFFICE: Evaluating our 2017 process

When he was running BaseballHQ.com, one of Ron Shandler's annual season-ending columns was "When good projections go bad," an annual exercise that served as a warts-and-all look at the hits and misses between our pre-season projections and actual results. He would run the lists here on the site each fall, and it also appears in the Encyclopedia section of the Baseball Forecaster. (Timely reminder: the 2018 edition is available for pre-order now!)

In recent years, Brent and I have taken over the compilation of this list from Ron. But we had a bit of a communications snafu in the Forecaster production process this week, where I went off to conduct this exercise, and found that Ron had already done it for me!

So, with a hat tip to our...

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