Minor League Ball community projection: Raul Mondesi, INF, Kansas City Royals

A popular feature early in the development of Minor League Ball was the “Community projection.” So far for 2017 we’ve done Andrew Benintendi of the Boston Red Sox, Josh Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Gary Sanchez of the New York Yankees. Most recently we did Dansby Swanson of the Atlanta Braves, and Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins. Michael Conforto and Maikel Franco are in progress.

Let’s get another one started, perhaps a bit more challenging than some of the others: Raul Mondesi of the Kansas City Royals.

For purposes of this exercise, tell us what you think he would do if the Royals gave him at least 300 major league at-bats this year.

The concept is simple: I name a player, and you give me the statistics you expect him to post in 2017 in the comment thread below. Then when we get a fair number of entries we tally it all up, then compare it to what actually happens and see how we did in comparison to reality, as well as in comparison to the projections run by more sophisticated systems (ZIPS, PECOTA, etc.)

Project the following numbers for Raul Mondesi for 2017 (300 at-bats minimum)

games, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, homers, walks, strikeouts, HBP, steals, caught stealing.

I will calculate the resulting slash line on a spreadsheet if you don’t want to do it yourself.