SPECULATOR: September 2015 experiments to watch—AL
Sep 15 2015
For non-contenders, September baseball offers reduced pressure to win now, and increased flexibility by virtue of roster expansion. These two factors make the season's final weeks an ideal time to conduct some experiments, searching for internal solutions to problems that scuttled an organization's plans for 2015. Paying attention to these experiments can help expose edges that you can exploit in your own September pennant push, and may also help to give an early read on some hidden value propositions for 2016.
Here are five questions that teams are trying to answer this month:
Do the Red Sox need to seek external help at 1B/OF?
Kris Olson gave an excellent overview of the Boston situation in Playing Time Tomorrow earlier this week....
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