Bill James 2010 Projections and the Pirates

The nice people at ACTA Sports have agreed to send me the projections section from the Bill James 2010 handbook and asked me to whatever I please about it. In return, they send me a free copy of the final book. I am mentioning this because the FTC has made it clear that if I don't, men in black suits may show up at my apartment and fine me or strip search me or something ridiculous like that. If you've been a WHYGAVS reader for any amount of time, you know that my favorite part of the off-season is assimilating the projections released by various people and trying to figure out just what they mean for the Pirates in the coming season. This year, I'm partcularly interested in four position players; Andrew McCutchen, Garrett Jones Andy LaRoche, Lastings Milledge. I'm interested in Zach Duke and Ross Ohlendorf as well, but projecting pitchers is a much more difficult art than projecting hitters and  As always, remember that projections shouldn't be viewed as literal predictions of the...