I like to look at several stats sites. I frequent the baseball-prospectus peeps as well as ZIPs. Here are Jason Kubels projected numbers as well as some comparisons
Age BA OBP SLG AB H R 2B 3B HR RBI BB K
26 .268 .332 .436 447 120 53 28 1 15 67 43 85-Kubel
39 .269 .366 .438 320 86 60 12 0 14 65 45 46-Gary Sheffield
29 .269 .352 .427 527 142 84 32 3 15 75 62 113-Cuddy
32 .278 .332 .481 528 147 84 33 1 24 94 39 89-Torii Hunter
31 .236 .286 .402 433 102 57 24 0 16 62 30 118-Craig Monroe
Kubel isn’t the best hitter in the bigs, but he is a hitter that projects well if given the at bats. Some things of note:
Kubel’s projects to be a better slugger than Cuddy this year and is on par with Sheffield. He projects to have as many HR’s as Cuddy and Sheffield with 80 fewer AB’s. One could assume that given more AB’s Jason Kubel would pick up a few more runs and a few more doubles thus raising his SLG%. In all he would project to be a better power hitter than Json Kubel.
Interesting note that ZIPS projects Monroe to get nearly half the ABs hit as many HRs and generally be a worse hitter otherwise. (31 HR’s out of the DH spot would be nice though)
