BATTING: Skills Indicators

Recently, BaseballHQ.com bullpens columnist Doug Dennis reviewed one of BHQ’s “secret weapons” for fantasy owners: the site’s Bullpen Charts.

Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this edition of the BBG will do the same, drawing your attention to some of the excellent charts for batters and some of the batters featured in them this week.

The charts are gathered on one page. There, you’ll find listings of BA, Power and Speed for:

  • Top Skills
  • Potential Surgers, batters whose production has lagged their key indicators
  • And Potential Faders, batters whose production has outstripped their key indicators

(All of these also include ERA, but that’s someone else’s lookout.)

Let’s look at each in turn. In...

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