David Pinto over at Baseball Musings points out some interesting things from around the web. To start, the 2007 Marcels (from Marcel The Monkey Forecasting System) are out and have been posted out at The Hardball Times. Marcel is a projection system that was put together by Tangotiger and you can learn more about the procedures here. As Dave points out, getting through the stats is a little unwieldy at this point but if you're looking for batting projections, Pinto's done you a solid and pasted the 2007 Yankees into his (very interesting) Lineup Analysis Tool.

Pitching projections are also up though outside of Mariano (he's #2 in ERA), no other Yankee shows up in the top 50 for ERA until Andy Pettitte 12-10, 3.95 ERA and Chien-Ming Wang at 14-7, 3.95 ERA. I think the system might be depressing wins a little bit as the high winner for both leagues is Johan Santana with 15 wins, followed by Josh Beckett (14-9, 4.28 ERA).

Also, if you really want to get an idea of how the Roger Clemens media circus is going to play out, I would strongly suggest reading Pete A's forecast for the next year.

Finally, Dave Pinto also pointed out a quick post over at a Harvard Baseball blog, Sons of Bart Bush, details one Harvard player's recollections on facing Ross Ohlendorf in Ross' freshman year. It's always interesting to me to see what these guys were like when they were young and learning the game.

Heh. I worked a Ross and Marcel the monkey reference into a post for all you Friends fans out there.