As promised, here are the 2005 Mets batter projections based on the first 54 games of the season.
PROJECTED 2005 BATTING NUMBERS
AB H HR R RBI BB SO SB/CS BA OBP SLG
Jose Reyes 681 189 9 87 63 24 102 42/12 .278 .305 .423
Kaz Matsui 459 111 9 54 60 21 78 6/0 .242 .280 .340
Carlos Beltran 540 159 21 75 81 48 105 3/6 .294 .348 .472
Cliff Floyd 534 147 36 93 102 54 102 12/6 .275 .340 .522
Mike Piazza 516 126 18 60 78 51 78 0/0 .244 .312 .424
Mike Cameron 470 165 25 105 55 75 115 25/0 .351 .450 .638
David Wright 534 159 24 84 87 78 111 12/6 .298 .393 .517
Doug Mientkiewicz 480 99 21 54 60 60 78 0/3 .206 .299 .356
Mike Cameron's line is extremely gaudy, enhanced by only having played 25 games thus far. I had to extrapolate a bit more for him due to the time he missed, and wound up muxing all of his stats by a factor of five instead of the usual three. His RBI numbers have been unusually low this year, picking up only 11 in his 25 games played. Considering his batting line he should have a bunch more than that.I wish Reyes could inherit Minky's base-on-balls skill and little else. If Reyes could have turned 26 of his outs into walks (based on his ratio of hits-to-outs and Minky's 60 total walks), he would end up hitting .278/.342/.426, which would be pretty solid considering his stolen base and defensive potential.