SPECULATOR: Longshot leaders '16
Apr 9 2016
Each year in this space, we close out the pre-season calendar with a look at some possible long-shot league leaders and award winners. We are a week later than usual this year, partially because we intentionally don't want these out-on-a-limb predictions to influence your Draft Day plans. We don't think it is at all interesting to predict a Mike Trout MVP or a Clayton Kershaw Cy Young Award. Around here, we dig deeper....
Batting champions
National League
David Peralta (OF, ARI) hit .312 last year, so maybe this isn't such an outrageous pick. But he did that with a .286 xBA, so our usual approach here at BaseballHQ.com would be to call for regression. (Indeed, we're projecting a .299 BA, essentially splitting that BA/xBA gap from 2015)....
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