SPECULATOR: Searching for 2015's surprise teams
Apr 11 2015
Each year in this space, usually in March, we take a break from player-specific analysis and cast our speculative eye at team-level performance, looking for teams that might be in line to surpass expectations in the coming season.
This year, we pushed the exercise out into the first weekend of the season, for three reasons:
- this lets us work with the final pre-season projections.
- since we are light on player analysis in this piece, it made sense to hold it until after draft season.
- there's precious little to write about during the opening weeks of the season, anyway.
As always, we turn to our favorite draft software, Rotolab, to do the heavy lifting of turning BaseballHQ.com projections into standings predictions. The results here are...
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