2008 Projection: Matt Guerrier March 13th, 2008 at 6:30 am

Matt Guerrier is next on the list for the continuing series of 2008 projections. We’ve done the likely starting pitchers already and are rapidly working through the bullpen. We’ll get to the hitters next week. Let’s look at Guerrier’s numbers:

Year Age ERA W L INN HR BB K
2008 ZiPS 29 3.49 2 2 80.0 10 24 55
2007 28 2.35 2 4 88.0 9 21 68
2006 27 3.36 1 0 69.7 9 21 37

Matt Guerrier has been a dependable reliever that can come in for one inning late in a game or pitch a few innings at times when the starter isn’t able to go deep. At times in his past he was often included in rumors when the Twins were looking for another starter, but those days seem to have passed and he’s now become a bullpen mainstay.

Guerrier led the Twins’ bullpen last season with 88.0 IP and he’s likely to get a lot of work in 2008 as the bullpen will be relied on more following the losses of Johan Santana and Carlos Silva. Matt has now had 3 straight solid seasons in his long relief role and there’s no reason to expect anything different in 2008.

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2 Comments

kg2005 wrote: March 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am

How does Guerrier go from being 26 in 2007 to 29 in 2008?

Kris wrote: March 13th, 2008 at 9:33 am

The author of the entry copy/pasted the table from the Pat Neshek entry and missed updating a couple of the age cells :-)

Thanks for the catch! I've fixed the ages for 07 and 06. Guerrier is 29 now.

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