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Far better on the mound than otherwise, Carlos Royer was barely good enough to qualify as a two-way player in our projections.

Let’s start with the good stuff.

Royer was a solid pitcher, a decent option for the middle of a good team’s rotation. Like a lot of pitchers of his time, he carried a heavy workload for the start of his career then a lower one as, presumably, he dealt with the injuries that accompanied those workloads. In the second half of his career, his relief appearances outnumber his starts in most seasons.

He was very hard to hit with decent control (although his walk rate increased over the end of his career) and, in general, a decent strikeout rate. About the only flaw for Royer was a tendency to give up more homeruns (for the era) than you would like.

In the field, Royer was primarily a 1B with a bit of time at 3B and RF. He just wasn’t very good, rarely hitting over .200 (which of course wasn’t as much of a problem in the deadball era as in later decades) and having neither much power nor much control of the strike zone. Essentially, he adds some roster flexibility, but not a ton of other positive impact from his time spent not on the mound.

Royer missed the 1905 season; as is our practice, we have filled that one year in.

Future projections could remove Royer as a 2-way player altogether, or may drop his usage, especially in 1901 and 1902. They also could nudge his pitching performance up slightly–the susceptibility to giving up homeruns may be tweaked a bit given the era, which would also then pull down his projected ERAs. It could also be convinced that he falls off a cliff too fast here, and would have had some years, at least on the mound until around 1912 or 1913.

Name	Carlos Royer (Bebé)
ID / Status	royer-000car / Draft
Pos	P
DOB / i9s Career	1874 / 1897 - 1910
Birthplace	(Cuba)
Height / Weight	5'9" /
B / T	R / R

 

Batting Projections

Year	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1899	84	21	3	1	0	6	7	2	2	0.250	0.300	0.310	0.610
1900	122	27	2	0	0	12	6	5	2	0.221	0.291	0.238	0.529
1901	359	77	5	1	0	23	5	16	4	0.214	0.262	0.234	0.496
1902	330	75	4	2	0	22	4	15	4	0.227	0.276	0.252	0.527
1903	253	47	6	0	0	21	1	8	3	0.186	0.248	0.209	0.458
1904	155	33	4	0	0	10	3	5	2	0.213	0.261	0.239	0.499
1905	98	19	3	0	0	12	3	4	2	0.194	0.282	0.224	0.506
1906	241	45	5	1	0	18	9	8	3	0.187	0.243	0.216	0.459
1907	109	19	1	0	0	8	5	2	2	0.174	0.231	0.183	0.414
1908	98	18	3	0	0	9	1	2	2	0.184	0.252	0.214	0.467
1909	76	13	2	0	0	6	1	1	1	0.171	0.232	0.197	0.429
1910	28	5	0	0	0	3	3	1	1	0.179	0.258	0.179	0.437

 

Pitching Projections

Year	G	GS	IP	HA	W	K	HRA	eD	eT	eHBP	BB/9	H/9	K/9	ERA	WHIP
1899	19	12	108.0	97	34	28	3	0	0	6	2.8	8.1	2.3	3.07	1.21
1900	39	32	271.0	276	81	62	8	0	0	14	2.7	9.2	2.1	3.42	1.32
1901	41	35	286.0	232	64	113	9	0	0	10	2.0	7.3	3.6	2.44	1.03
1902	45	44	348.0	318	72	122	6	0	0	10	1.9	8.2	3.2	2.63	1.12
1903	37	37	283.0	237	63	113	7	0	0	9	2.0	7.5	3.6	2.47	1.06
1904	19	18	141.0	123	36	64	4	0	0	5	2.3	7.9	4.1	2.44	1.13
1905	18	17	127.0	118	33	58	3	4	0	4	2.3	8.4	4.1	2.75	1.19
1906	28	14	144.0	121	50	66	3	0	0	6	3.1	7.6	4.1	2.47	1.19
1907	24	16	140.0	106	41	67	2	0	0	5	2.6	6.8	4.3	1.96	1.05
1908	24	10	116.0	92	36	34	3	0	0	5	2.6	7.0	3.7	2.20	1.07
1909	27	9	114.0	89	33	47	2	0	0	4	2.6	7.0	3.7	2.20	1.07
1910	12	6	60.0	65	26	18	2	0	0	3	3.9	9.8	2.7	3.67	1.52