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According to most reputable baseball websites, Tanner Scheppers was indeed a member of the 2015 AL West Champion Texas Rangers. Somehow the only thing I remember about him this year was cutting his hand during the celebration.
The commenter who came the closest in projection was: Akalhar!
Notes
- OPT+ is an indicator of how a projection compared to the LSB Average. 100 is average, 110 is 10% better than average, and 90 is 10% worse than average.
- SCORE is an average of the number of standard deviations away from the actual results for each projected value also known as a Z-Score.
- FanGraphs Depth Charts is from FanGraphs.com using their hybrid of ZiPS and Steamer and manually determined playing time.
- The number in parentheses after LSB Average is the total number of entries for this player.
- Spreadsheet with all entries
Results
| IP | ERA | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 | OPT+ | SCORE | |
| 2015 Season | 38.3 | 5.63 | 7.51 | 5.40 | 1.41 | -19 | 0.00 |
| 2014 Season | 23.0 | 9.00 | 6.65 | 3.91 | 2.35 | -56 | 3.06 |
| FanGraphs Depth Charts | 55.0 | 4.02 | 7.36 | 2.91 | 0.98 | 116 | 2.49 |
| LSB Average (41) | 55.6 | 3.20 | 7.30 | 2.94 | 1.14 | 100 | 2.68 |
Top Five
| Commenter | IP | ERA | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 | OPT+ | SCORE |
| Akalhar | 40.0 | 4.40 | 7.40 | 3.20 | 1.30 | 44 | 1.77 |
| Lochness22 | 45.0 | 3.75 | 7.10 | 3.40 | 1.40 | 27 | 1.99 |
| ok.fester | 48.0 | 4.39 | 7.80 | 3.00 | 1.50 | 41 | 2.05 |
| capps1 | 45.0 | 4.50 | 6.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | -81 | 2.13 |
| frozenInSask | 38.0 | 3.45 | 6.90 | 3.20 | 1.60 | -1 | 2.17 |
Bottom Five
| Commenter | IP | ERA | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 | OPT+ | SCORE |
| MonkeyEpoxy | 66.0 | 3.12 | 8.80 | 2.40 | 0.90 | 213 | 3.67 |
| slc ranger | 68.0 | 2.11 | 8.50 | 2.80 | 0.80 | 212 | 3.78 |
| Straw_Man | 61.3 | 2.31 | 6.60 | 2.30 | 0.80 | 163 | 3.86 |
| RangerMad | 65.0 | 2.17 | 7.00 | 2.20 | 0.70 | 204 | 3.95 |
| Baseball North | 110.0 | 3.00 | 7.50 | 1.75 | 0.80 | 369 | 4.37 |