CP Results: Yes! We All Thought Jason Varitek Would Be Horrible

by Randy Booth on Feb 11, 2010 6:00 AM EST in Community Projections

Our last community project result and it's good ol' Captain, Jason Varitek.

A good way to categorize these results are "we didn't think he'd do much and he didn't do too much." Even losing his job halfway through the season, the predictions for Varitek were pretty close.

Results and winner(s) after the jump.

Here's how Jason Varitek performed in 2009:

AB: 364
HR: 14
BA: .209
OBP: .313
SLG: .390

And here is how our community projected the Captian:

NAME	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG
Randy Booth	420	12	.253	.349	.380
BTLove	350	8	.240	.320	.390
walkoff baltimore chop	375	5	.215	.312	.370
0157H7	0	0	.000	.000	.000
badlydrawnjeff	385	14	.249	.310	.410
MatthewRI	400	17	.265	.350	.415
tommy.otm	375	9	.260	.350	.400
drabidea	375	11	.232	.326	.375
RSNexile	380	10	.235	.330	.370
sox-inda-south	387	12	.248	.319	.384
SoxDevil	410	11	.235	.320	.390
Tippecanoe	320	5	.203	.265	.349
bs.us15bosox9bears23	350	13	.240	.350	.380
Chemmy	275	5	.250	.325	.350
Schulz	380	8	.235	.300	.375
Charger567	390	6	.240	.295	.450
bstngy24	350	10	.243	.299	.480
DANNDANN	375	12	.247	.313	.426
A2004LoveAffair	390	11	.258	.343	.404
BoSox415	385	7	.226	.350	.370
DougieWentDeep	407	12	.237	.335	.390

Stats bolded and italicized are within five units. Stats with a red background are exactly correct.

So, yeah, Varitek was bad. Worse than most of us though, too. There's a few correct guesses, with three coming with the slugging percentage. I could be stingy with this victory, but let's share the love and say everyone with a dead-on prediction -- BTLove, badlydrawnjeff, SoxDevil, DANNDANN and DougieWentDeep -- are our champions. I just feel like giving.

Your winnings, gentlemen. I hope it warms your heart (sniffle):

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Tippecanoe came pretty damn close with that batting average, too

The only one with the necessary cynicism to put him in the aughts.

Poor Capitain….

Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.

I have a five-tool player in my pants.

by Bloggy on Feb 11, 2010 7:10 AM EST reply actions

He was pretty bad and couldn't throw out a runner to save his life

but I will always love Jason Varitek…..from his days with Georgia Tech to the hand in A-Rod’s face to catching for two World Series teams. His average bat and poor knees finally aught up to him

by BobZupcic on Feb 11, 2010 9:57 AM EST reply actions

Agreed fully

That hand in the face was AWESOME

by drabidea on Feb 11, 2010 2:40 PM EST up reply actions

He gave us all he had!

His heart wants to cash a check his body can’t pay…………and i love him for that and all he has done for the RED SOX

by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Feb 11, 2010 11:08 AM EST reply actions

It appears Ecoli took the Price is Right approach.

Strikeouts are boring- Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.

by CasanovaWong on Feb 11, 2010 11:45 AM EST reply actions

True That. E-Coli put some serious thinking into those predictions.....

"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko

by sox-inda-south on Feb 11, 2010 7:15 PM EST up reply actions

I may have been wrong last year

But let us not wallow in the valley of our despair, I say to you, my friends.

And even though we face the difficulties of February and March, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day Red Sox Nation will rise up and live up the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that not all catchers are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the mound of Fenway, the son of John Beckett and the son of Margot Martinez will be able to work together in the spirit of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the eyes of Shaughnessy, a writer so jilted by his own emptiness that he buys puppies from animal shelters just to abandon them, will be brought to tears by the third straight Lester shutout called by Victor Martinez.

I have a dream that ONE DAY Red Sox catchers will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the strength of their OBP!

I have a dream today!

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea /
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown /
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

by 0157H7 on Feb 11, 2010 10:36 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

Rec'd

For the Shaughnessy part, if nothing else.

by Schulz on Feb 11, 2010 11:52 PM EST up reply actions

Rec'd

For every single word.

(Although I might’ve liked it even better if that last bit went:

“I have a dream that ONE DAY Red Sox catchers will not be judged by the bases stolen off their pitchers’ slow motion the plate, but by the strength of their OBP!”

‘Just sayin’ …)

by mmmmm on Feb 12, 2010 3:58 PM EST up reply actions