BATTERS: 2020 Gambles

This column will help you identify batters who may be overvalued heading into draft day. We'll do so by looking at batters whose 2019 production was not backed up by strong underlying support from their skills.

Here are the batters with the worst skills in 2019 among those who earned at least $5 that season:

<25 BPV, 5x5 $5+, 2019*

Name          Lg  Pos       bb%  ct%  Eye   PX   HctX  xPX  Spd  $    EV    LA    BPV
============  ==  ========  ===  ===  ====  ===  ====  ===  ===  ===  ====  ====  ===
Alfaro, J     NL         C   5%  64%  0.14   98    97  102   88   $9  90.8   4.7  -26
Hamilton, B   NL        CF   9%  72%  0.37   41    59   41  154   $5  78.3  12.8  -10
Chavis, M     AL     1B/2B   8%  63%  0.24  113    74   90   94   $8  88.8  12.0  ...

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