What were we drinking thread. The unbridled optimism from the TBLA community had no bounds for Mr. Left Field.
| Year | Age | PA | HR | Runs | RBI | BA | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
| 2008 (DET) | 31 | 342 | 25 | 50 | 56 | .241 | .292 | .516 | .339 |
| 2009 (DET) | 32 | 294 | 13 | 33 | 36 | .252 | .323 | .453 | .329 |
| 2010 (NYY) | 33 | 237 | 12 | 22 | 33 | .288 | .350 | .491 | .365 |
| 2011 (LAD) | 34 | 70 | 2 | 4 | 7 | .197 | .243 | .333 | |
| 2011 Projections - Age 34 Season | |||||||||
| Year | PA | HR | Runs | RBI | BA | OBP | SLG | wOBA | |
| Bill James | 320 | 14 | 38 | 45 | .244 | .307 | .434 | .323 | |
| Marcel | 348 | 16 | 39 | 45 | .252 | .313 | .452 | .330 | |
| HQ | 219 | 10 | 23 | 30 | .244 | .303 | .413 | ||
The experts were wrong, the community was wrong. At some point Michael White confused Marcus Thames with Craig Monroe but little did he know that he was being prophetic. I'm not even going to post some of the projections, safe to say everyone thought he'd at least hit against LHP.
The thread itself was one of our better spring threads, so while I'm not going to give you anything to read here, if you are bored take a look at what we were discussing on March 24, 2011.