In anticipation of the draft for The Hazean’s 2009 fantasy baseball challenge, I decided to dabble in some preseason projections.
The problem with that thought, though, is that I really do not spend as much time working on my fantasy baseball knowledge as I do football. So I brought in some fantasy baseball muscle to compile these projections.
Aaron McCoy, fantasy baseball connoisseur and a co-worker of mine, offered his fantasy baseball expertise for these rankings. I have to say they are pretty impressive, and I might even use them to draft my team this weekend.
I will be posting his projections, rankings, and Big Board throughout the week, so make sure to come by and check them out. Feel free to offer your opinion on his rankings via the comments, and thank him for doing a great job with these.
Hit the jump for today’s rankings.
| Starting Pitchers | W | SV | K | ERA | WHIP | |
| Johan Santana | 20 | 0 | 226 | 3.01 | 1.09 | |
| Tim Lincecum | 16 | 0 | 249 | 2.88 | 1.12 | |
| Jake Peavy | 16 | 0 | 219 | 2.94 | 1.12 | |
| C.C. Sabathia | 21 | 0 | 221 | 4.01 | 1.19 | |
| Cole Hamels | 19 | 0 | 214 | 3.22 | 1.13 | |
| Brandon Webb | 19 | 0 | 176 | 3.31 | 1.19 | |
| Roy Halladay | 20 | 0 | 176 | 3.19 | 1.16 | |
| Dan Haren | 18 | 0 | 190 | 3.38 | 1.19 | |
| Rich Harden | 14 | 0 | 198 | 2.77 | 1.11 | |
| Chad Billingsley | 16 | 0 | 211 | 3.26 | 1.26 | |
| Francisco Liriano | 16 | 0 | 191 | 3.44 | 1.21 | |
| John Lackey | 15 | 0 | 179 | 3.56 | 1.23 | |
| Scott Kazmir | 16 | 0 | 211 | 3.48 | 1.31 | |
| Roy Oswalt | 18 | 0 | 166 | 3.54 | 1.24 | |
| Ervin Santana | 17 | 0 | 186 | 3.75 | 1.26 | |
| James Shields | 15 | 0 | 180 | 3.81 | 1.15 | |
| Josh Beckett | 17 | 0 | 191 | 4.03 | 1.17 | |
| Felix Hernandez | 14 | 0 | 181 | 3.55 | 1.37 | |
| Jon Lester | 17 | 0 | 156 | 3.33 | 1.31 | |
| Cliff Lee | 16 | 0 | 171 | 3.44 | 1.16 | |
| Carlos Zambrano | 16 | 0 | 167 | 4.02 | 1.31 | |
| Ryan Dempster | 15 | 0 | 169 | 3.86 | 1.29 | |
| Edinson Volquez | 14 | 0 | 192 | 3.61 | 1.24 | |
| Erik Bedard | 15 | 0 | 199 | 3.74 | 1.31 | |
| Adam Wainwright | 16 | 0 | 151 | 3.71 | 1.23 | |
| Chris Young | 13 | 0 | 171 | 3.42 | 1.22 | |
| Joba Chamberlain | 12 | 1 | 174 | 3.61 | 1.26 | |
| Yovani Gallardo | 16 | 0 | 199 | 3.88 | 1.29 | |
| Ricky Nolasco | 13 | 0 | 169 | 3.89 | 1.24 | |
| Ben Sheets | 14 | 0 | 171 | 3.59 | 1.22 | |
| John Danks | 14 | 0 | 160 | 3.44 | 1.25 | |
| A.J. Burnett | 17 | 0 | 199 | 4.08 | 1.32 | |
| Javier Vazquez | 14 | 0 | 204 | 4.07 | 1.33 | |
| Matt Cain | 11 | 0 | 184 | 3.63 | 1.28 | |
| Fausto Carmona | 15 | 0 | 125 | 3.43 | 1.33 | |
| Justin Duchscherer | 13 | 0 | 131 | 3.49 | 1.29 | |
| Jeremy Guthrie | 11 | 0 | 123 | 3.68 | 1.22 | |
| Derek Lowe | 14 | 0 | 146 | 3.63 | 1.27 | |
| Aaron Harang | 12 | 0 | 193 | 4.02 | 1.31 | |
| Zack Greinke | 12 | 0 | 194 | 3.51 | 1.29 | |
| Josh Johnson | 13 | 0 | 164 | 3.91 | 1.31 | |
| Chien-Ming Wang | 16 | 0 | 98 | 3.72 | 1.31 | |
| Scott Baker | 12 | 0 | 146 | 4.21 | 1.26 | |
| Matt Garza | 13 | 0 | 133 | 3.67 | 1.24 | |
| Justin Verlander | 13 | 0 | 174 | 4.22 | 1.36 | |
| Armando Galarraga | 13 | 0 | 134 | 4.22 | 1.24 | |
| Clayton Kershaw | 12 | 0 | 181 | 4.12 | 1.31 | |
| David Price | 11 | 0 | 180 | 3.81 | 1.26 | |
| Johnny Cueto | 12 | 0 | 176 | 4.31 | 1.36 | |
| Max Scherzer | 13 | 0 | 191 | 3.99 | 1.29 | |
| Brett Myers | 14 | 0 | 183 | 4.22 | 1.35 | |
| Ted Lilly | 12 | 0 | 168 | 4.21 | 1.29 | |
| Joe Saunders | 14 | 0 | 113 | 4.05 | 1.29 | |
| Kevin Slowey | 13 | 0 | 161 | 3.87 | 1.15 | |
| John Maine | 14 | 0 | 156 | 4.12 | 1.31 | |
| Jered Weaver | 12 | 0 | 149 | 4.23 | 1.34 | |
| Gil Meche | 13 | 0 | 177 | 3.89 | 1.31 | |
| Mike Pelfrey | 14 | 0 | 122 | 4.01 | 1.36 | |
| Gavin Floyd | 14 | 0 | 140 | 3.94 | 1.36 | |
| Jair Jurrjens | 13 | 0 | 141 | 3.93 | 1.34 | |
| Dustin McGowan | 10 | 0 | 149 | 4.18 | 1.28 | |
| Oliver Perez | 10 | 0 | 191 | 4.21 | 1.39 | |
| Ubaldo Jimenez | 13 | 0 | 184 | 4.11 | 1.35 | |
| Chris Carpenter | 11 | 0 | 151 | 3.65 | 1.27 | |
| Mark Buehrle | 12 | 0 | 131 | 3.81 | 1.31 | |
| Aaron Cook | 12 | 0 | 100 | 4.04 | 1.32 | |
| Hiroki Kuroda | 10 | 0 | 116 | 3.88 | 1.24 | |
| Wandy Rodriguez | 9 | 0 | 159 | 4.34 | 1.32 | |
| Randy Johnson | 10 | 0 | 174 | 4.12 | 1.24 | |
| Chris Volstad | 11 | 0 | 114 | 3.77 | 1.33 | |
| Dave Bush | 9 | 0 | 127 | 4.51 | 1.26 | |
| Scott Olsen | 8 | 0 | 117 | 4.11 | 1.29 | |
| Bronson Arroyo | 13 | 0 | 162 | 4.59 | 1.42 | |
| Randy Wolf | 10 | 0 | 159 | 4.66 | 1.39 | |
| Kyle Lohse | 11 | 0 | 121 | 4.23 | 1.35 |
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