SPECULATOR: 2017 Snap judgments (batters)
Apr 19 2017
The temptation is overwhelming. We are all itching to (over-)react at all to what's happened over the first two weeks of the season. Heck, even around BaseballHQ.com, the home of "excruciating patience", our fortitude is being tested. You can catch us writing negative takes on Byron Buxton, and positive takes on Kendall Graveman and Jason Castro.
On the whole, of course, we're still preaching that excruciating patience. But if you must scratch that itch, well, the Speculator is here for you. In this space, we aren't constrained by issues like the legitimacy of underlying sample sizes. Of course, we can’t completely disregard our numbers-based approach, but we do have some more leeway as we project ahead. Players change, adapt, grow and...
Almost!
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