Earl Weaver Rules

The Orioles avoided arbitration with second baseman Brian Roberts when they locked him up to a one year, $4.2 million deal today.  Robert had a monster year in 2005 but an elbow injury slowed him down a bit.  Regardless, Roberts is one of the best second basemen in baseball so $4.2 million isn’t all that bad.

PECOTA doesn’t project Brian Roberts very well.  The weighted mean average they have is .264/.337/.392 but they have a projected 56% collapse rate.  I think he’ll be on the north end of .275, but time will tell.