WAR Stories Phillies 2015+

This is the Index for our Phillies 2015+ series.

The goal of Phillies 2015+ is two fold. 1) I want to take a deeper look at the Phillies roster 2) I want to see if we can project the Phillies win total/playoff prospects. I am going to attempt to do this by projecting the 2015 WAR of the players on the expected Phils Roster.

2014 Bowman Chrome #123 Chase Utley

The Table below is a running table of my guesses at 2015 WAR ratings for various Phillies. You can click on players highlighted in GREEN  to see a somewhat more in depth discussion of the players projection. 

Pos	Player	2015 WAR	age 2015	2014 WAR	2014$$$
C	Carlos Ruiz	2.3	36	3.2	8.5
1B	Ryan Howard	0	35	-1.1	25
2B	Chase Utley	3	36	3.6	15
3B	Cody Asche		25	0.6	0.5
SS	Freddy Galvis		25	-0.7	0.5
RF	Domonic Brown	+1.5	27	-1.4	0.6
LF	Ben Revere	0	27	0.6	2
U	Darin Ruf	+1.6	28	0.1	0.5
CF	Odubel Herrera	+1.3	23	na	na
Ace	Cole Hamels	9.3	31	6.6	22.5
P2	Clff Lee	3.5	36	0.8	25
P3	Aaron Harang		30	0.4	7.7
P4	Jerome Williams	0.0	33	1.5	2.1
P5	Chad Billingsley	1.6	31	DNP
P6	Dave Buchanan	1.0	26	1.4
CL	Jonathan Papelbon	1.7	34	2.8	13
R1	Ken Giles	0.8	24	2
R2	Justin DeFratus		27	0.8	0.5
U1	Wil Nieves		37	0.7	1.1
U2	Grady Sizemore		32	0.3	0.8
R3	M A Gonzalez		28	-0.1	3.7
RC	Maikel Franco	+1.5
	Replacement Team	50		50
	Total Wins	77.8			79.2
	Actual Wins			73

Other 2015 WAR projections
Jimmy Rollins +2.0 (traded Dodgers)
Marlon Byrd
Kyle Kendrick


Note: I don't know much about how WAR is calculated, I discuss my ignorance here.