Back in late March, as Spring Training was wrapping up, I collated various pre-season projections of the upcoming Cardinal season and formulated my own positional-based projection here. For fun, I’ll walk back through that and compare what was projected against what actually happened.

We will start with the original projection table published in March and add an Actual WAR column next to the Projected WAR column. Note the actual WAR values are through the SF series, so won’t include the last 3 games of the year.

Recall that the Projected WAR was not an extract of individual WAR projections. Instead, I projected a WAR for each position (except for starting pitchers), expecting that we’d see a lot of plug-and-play variations to give young guys runway and the usual assortment of injuries an

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