SPECULATOR: 2019 Snap judgments (batters)
Apr 10 2019
We're all itching to (over-)react to what's happening over the first two weeks of the season. Exercising excruciating patience—a staple mantra here over the years—is the prudent thing to do, but we often have to make early roster decisions on small-sample data. Doing so in last year's version of this column might have yielded an early FAAB acquisition of Jonathan Villar and/or José Martínez, while hunches that Xander Bogaerts would rebound and Alex Bregman would put up a career year both came to fruition.
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