SPECULATOR: 2017 Last 31 Days—Batters

Earlier in the season, Ray Murphy pried open our underutilized Leading Indicators pages as a spot to mine for future value. Another unappreciated portion of the site is our collection of Last 31 Days statistics. While this split runs on each player’s main PlayerLink page, you can find the whole set in our downloadable projections files. Pull these into Excel, run some filters and sorts, and—ta-da!—we can come up with a handful of speculative targets for a mid-season surge. Which, here at the Speculator column, is right up our alley.

Our method this week will be to look at instances where a...

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