SPECULATOR: A revised 2019 UP: list
May 22 2019
As most of you know, UP: (and DN:) projections are regularly tacked on the end of player boxes in The Baseball Forecaster. They’re intended to reflect a ceiling (or floor) beyond the accompanying preseason projection—where the skills warrant it, of course. From 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.
We broke down the preseason UP lists for batters and pitchers from the 2019 book, which was released last November. Now that we’ve exercised excruciating patience for seven-plus weeks, it’s time to cook up a new batch of UP: siders based on the early returns.
Some of the UP: lines here will look similar to a...
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