SPECULATOR: The BF18 DN: list
Feb 14 2018
Within the player commentaries of the 2018 Baseball Forecaster, we offer some UP: (and DN:) projections that are intended to reflect a ceiling (or floor) beyond the accompanying 2018 projection. As described in the book:
Upside (UP) and downside (DN) statistical potential appears for some players; these are less grounded in hard data and more speculative of skills potential.
Speculative? Well, that sounds a lot like what we do in this space! We've spent the last two weeks looking at the "UP:" siders (batters | pitchers), and we'll now turn our attention to the more pessimistic side of the coin.
The "full" list of DN: hitters and pitchers is included here; maybe we should be harsher next season. Average Draft Position (ADP) data is...
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