{"id":688,"date":"2013-03-22T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:47:56","slug":"tweaking-projections-again-aroldis-chapman-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/tweaking-projections-again-aroldis-chapman-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaking Projections Again &#8211; Aroldis Chapman to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20130322&amp;content_id=43133780&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;c_id=mlb\">announced<\/a>\u00a0today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=2788&amp;league=25&amp;year=2013\">Aroldis Chapman<\/a>\u00a0will remain at closer, rather than join the starting rotation.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ve updated the RotoValue projections with his new role, now giving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Search?year=2013&amp;league=25&amp;position=RP&amp;pro_team=Reds&amp;source=RotoValue\">Reds&#8217; saves<\/a>\u00a0to him instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=4565&amp;league=25&amp;year=2013\">Jonathan Broxton<\/a>. So Broxton&#8217;s value plummets, while Chapman&#8217;s becomes more reliably solid. While he already projected to be a rather valuable starter by most systems I had, he likely has less risk of injury or underperformance in the bullpen. Chapman&#8217;s value might not rise all that much, but Broxton&#8217;s surely takes a hit, so take notice for those drafting this weekend!<br \/>\nAlso, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=5316&amp;league=25&amp;year=2013\">Adam Eaton<\/a>\u00a0is now likely to miss 6-8 weeks, so the young Diamondbacks&#8217; prospect should fall back some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds announced\u00a0today that Aroldis Chapman\u00a0will remain at closer, rather than join the starting rotation. So I&#8217;ve updated the RotoValue projections with his new role, now giving the Reds&#8217; saves\u00a0to him instead of Jonathan Broxton. So Broxton&#8217;s value plummets, while Chapman&#8217;s becomes more reliably solid. While he already projected to be a rather valuable starter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/tweaking-projections-again-aroldis-chapman-to-close\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tweaking Projections Again &#8211; Aroldis Chapman to Close<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}