simple hitters' projections

here are some projections based on performance thus far, and not accounting for performance of prior years. it's about the simplest possible projection:

2005 projection = current fps x ( 162 games / team games thus far ).

that's a nice simple formula, which gives us:

Player Pos Team FPTS Games EFP2
Ortiz, David DH BOS 79 22 582
Vidro, Jose 2B WAS 78 23 549
Dunn, Adam LF CIN 72 22 530
Cabrera, Miguel RF FLA 68 21 525
Teixeira, Mark 1B TEX 70 24 473
Belliard, Ron 2B CLE 61 23 430
Biggio, Craig CF HOU 53 21 409
Crisp, Coco CF CLE 50 23 352
Piazza, Mike C NYM 50 23 352
Miles, Aaron 2B COL 43 20 348
Bartlett, Jason SS MIN 38 22 280
Chavez, Eric 3B OAK 32 23 225

according to this, all players are acceptable excepting Crisp, Bartlett and Chavez. Crisp and Bartlett are expendable at this point, and we'll give Chavez a few more weeks to get things straightened out.

obviously, it would be exciting if four of our hitters topped 500 points. i think last year only bonds and teixeira topped 500 points for us...

if we stuck with the ten best players in this lineup, we'd be projected for 4550 fantasy points, which is a little better than we did with bonds last year (4493). But these are just projections.