2014 IPP: Curtis Granderson

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was moderately popular last year, so we'll try it again this year. IPP stands for Individual Player Predictions. These will be threads where we share our expectations of how a player will perform in the current year. Feel free to make your predictions as specific or as vague as you like. (You can find a listing of the 2013 IPPs here.)

I think Curtis Granderson will have a nice year for the Mets. .255, 26 homers, 95 rbi. If the Mets don't win 90 games, it won't be his fault.

[metirish]

Gary Cohen who is not prone to hyperbole mentioned inn one of the early Spring Training games that NO PLAYER in his opinion had ever made a better first impression that Granderson.....there is no stat for that .....


.275 - 26 hr - 102rbi . I think he is going to be great

[MFS62]

.265- 31- 102.
And fewer than 170 Ks. (less than what MFY fans are saying)
Later

[Ceetar]

my bet with my boss was .261 31 HR 111 RBI



.261/.345/.488 (nearly his career line) 18 SB. 3 triples. 163 Ks

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Better than Beltran. Better than Ellsbury! TATTOO IT ON YOUR FACE

[ashie62]

27 HR 88 RBI .261 10 SB

Solid..

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fast start, VERY slow June/early-July. Better, if normalized second half. He'll be fun to root for. Not so much fun to watch when he's making wind like he's the Greek God of Zephyrs, Typhoons, and Wet Farts, but, hey, No Bay!

144 G, 605 PA, .245/.342/.468, 71 R, 26 HR, 83 RBI, 10 SB, 50 XBH

[Lefty Specialist]

He'll do okay. 25/90/.270.

[Vic Sage]

.245 / 25hr / 85rbi - 175k, and everybody will be glad to have it.

[Zvon]

After seeing him a bit:

.283 / 33 kaBOOMs / 101 RBI

Yep, it's a thin line.

[smg58]

I'll be unoriginal and agree with Vic.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

and allow me be the first to agree with smg

[Guest d'Kong76]

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[metirish]

I'm concerned , he looks kind of shit in the early going.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

metirish wrote: I'm concerned , he looks kind of shit in the early going.

Hey! That's a patina of Yankee taint. He was there for several years. You can't just scrape that crap off in one off season. Takes a little time to wear off. He's probably still waking up in the middle of the night with Jeter intangible sweats. His soul has been scarred. Give him time.

[Frayed Knot]

Granderson since May 1st:
164 ABs, 47 Hits, 8 2Bs, 1 3B, 9 HRs, 34 BBs, 45 Ks -- .287/.399/.512 // 911

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Better than Beltran. Better than Ellsbury! TATTOO IT ON YOUR FACE

beltran 7-23 216/273/400 // 673 battling multiple injuries
ellsbury 4-32 279/348/392 // 740 not bad but $21 million/yr for 7 years good? Nuh-uh
grandy 10-35 234/356/409 // 765 even with the worst start in history already better than either of these guys

[Vic Sage]

Vic Sage wrote: .245 / 25hr / 85rbi - 175k, and everybody will be glad to have it.

he's currently on pace for around this [.240 / 23hr / 75rbi - 160k]. And i'm glad to have it.
But he's hitting leadoff more now, so while his RBIs will probably not reach projections, his RS will exceed them [probably in the 90/RS range].
Plus, he's got the whole towel-waving thing to his credit.
so there's that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It looks like everyone who posted in this thread has turned out to have been overly optimistic.

At this point, we can only hope that he'll take a page from Carlos Beltran's book and have a much better second season with the Mets.

[Lefty Specialist]

My fear is that he takes a page from Jason Bay's book instead......

[Edgy MD]

Hope and fear, man. We all got plenty of acreage of both. But where you gonna build your house?

[ashie62]

Curtis can make up for it next season....