This article was written on 1/15. On 1/15 the Mets still don’t have a second basemen. Neil Walker is still a free agent. There’s the possibility a reunion occurs. This also means the Mets quite literally are putting the band back together again for 2017.
Quickly after Walker returned from injury this year, he was traded. Thus the fate of most veterans on the 2017 team.
| Neil Walker | |||||||||
| PA | AB | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
| 2016 | 458 | 412 | 57.00 | 23 | 55 | 3 | 0.282 | 0.347 | 0.476 |
| Projections | |||||||||
| MLB.com | 489 | 66.00 | 22 | 68 | 2 | 0.27 | 0.334 | 0.466 | |
| Steamer | 459 | 60.00 | 19 | 65 | 3 | 0.261 | 0.333 | 0.44 | |
| ZiPS | 521 | 65.00 | 20 | 65 | 3 | 0.263 | 0.329 | 0.442 | |
| ESPN | 60.00 | 21 | 60 | 3 | 0.271 | ||||
| Baseball Prospectus | 518 | 59.00 | 19 | 66 | 3 | 0.255 | 0.325 | 0.426 | |
| Sporting News | 495 | 68.00 | 23 | 72 | 3 | 0.273 | 0.341 | 0.451 | |
| NBC Rotoworld | 451 | 60.00 | 18 | 66 | 2 | 0.257 | 0.331 | 0.43 | |
| Rotowire | 472 | 64.00 | 21 | 64 | 3 | 0.275 | 0.34 | 0.462 | |
| Baseball America | 527 | 64.00 | 19 | 62 | 3 | 0.269 | 0.329 | 0.425 | |
| FBG 2017 | 516 | 70.00 | 24 | 71 | 3 | 0.278 | |||
| Average | 519.5 | 487 | 63.6 | 20.6 | 65.9 | 2.8 | 0.2672 | 0.33275 | 0.44275 |
2017 Stats:
111 G, 448 PA, 385 AB, 59 R, 102 H, 21 2B, 14 HR, .265 BA, .362 OBP, .439 SLG
Walker slid on power last year but made up for it by getting on base more. The average of the projections were pretty close to the Walker slash line nearly getting average and slugging but missing the increased walks that Walker picked up. Walker is a good example of the average of the projections matching reality rather than any particular one.
