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Community Projections: J.D. Drew Lovers In The House

It's that time of the year again: community projections results time!

Gather 'round, kids, as I reveal how the community at Over The Monster was able to predict the season's of some of the Sox's players. We did eight in the preseason, including the whole lineup except David Ortiz (should have ... that would be interesting). I try to get to every player before the season starts, but that's usually unrealistic. Eight, though, is a pretty good number.

Today we start with everyone's favorite right fielder, J.D. Drew.

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I asked all that wanted to participate to guess Drew's statistics for the following categories:

AB:
HR:
BA:
OBP:
SLG:

Special category:

Total games played in the regular season:

Here is how Drew actually performed when 2010 was all said and done:

AB: 452
HR: 24
BA: .279
OBP: .392
SLG: .522

Special category:

Total games played in the regular season: 137

A pretty solid year by all accounts (better than Jason Bay? Oh, we've had that fight already. Get over it). But this is how the community predicted Drew's season would go down:

NAME AB HR BA OBP SLG G
0157h7 430 18 .280 .370 .510 130
Schulz 400 18 .285 .390 .500 120
ya_down_with_obp 440 22 .286 .396 .521 --
RSNexile 460 18 .270 .380 .470 132
NJBillsFan 540 26 .279 .401 .566 150
BoSox415 450 23 .280 .395 .500 140
drabidea 435 21 .280 .390 .520 138
badlydrawnjeff 200 5 .260 .340 .400 50
E5 300 7 .280 .375 .435 100
bs.uf15bosox9bears23 500 35 .320 .415 .520 130
DANNDANN 460 16 .283 .374 .533 119
DougieWentDeep 442 17 .278 .391 .480 132
KEY: Everything bolded and italicized represents a guess that was within 5 units of the actual answer. Anything with a background that is RED is a dead-on prediction.

 

This one is almost too close to call.

As you can see, both BoSox415 and drabidea guessed within five units of five of the six categories. That's impressive. NJBillsFan pulls off the only perfect prediction, correctly guessing Drew's .279 batting average. Some were close (DougieWentDeep on both BA and OBP -- one point off) while others were a little too optimistic (BS?). Everyone -- except badlydrawnjeff, who predicted an injury-plagued season -- had at least one guess that came within five points.

VICTORY AWARDED TO: BoSox415 and drabidea. Good job, gentlemen. You, my friends, are the best of the best of the best, sirs! Your reward? That YouTube video I just linked to. Congrats.

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Good year for Drew

Easily the most underrated player on the team. Oh you Drew Haters out there! Cower before the fury of his mighty OBP! Cower!

by Ben Buchanan on Nov 4, 2009 12:27 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Drew's a great player to start with.

You can get a strong sense of an individual’s baseball knowledge with the following question: “How good a player is JD Drew?” Most people would not say he’s one of the most valuable members of the team, but if you look at his superb defense and hitting, he surely is.

He’s the classic underrated guy – quiet, had injury problems, loathed by baseball traditionalists, sportswriters and talk radio callers alike.

"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.

by 0157H7 on Nov 4, 2009 12:51 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Hope she bakes ya cookies, dude.

Congrats.

And, while I’m commenting: Bwa ha ha ha @ Jeff’s 200 at bats prediction.

Goddamn that DeMarlo Hale.

by Bloggy on Nov 4, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

All Around Good Player....

JD’s always been one of my favorite Red Sox players. Very much underrated. Looking for him to have a great 2010 season!

by Sherice on Nov 4, 2009 11:45 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I blame being the Lowndes County for 5 years.

@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation

by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 6, 2009 4:22 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Yays.

Sorry I haven’t been on lately. School and stuff. So yeah, I won (or tied). Giggity giggity and all that. I won’t be on much in the off-season, I know you will all miss me. :P

Well, Yankee fans, there is ONE thing we can agree on: We're all smarter than Madonna.

by BoSox415 on Nov 6, 2009 8:23 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Go play basketball, Noles fan.

:)

@bs_uf15bosox9be 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get 'em; Learn to use SB Nation

by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 6, 2009 10:18 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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