SPECULATOR: 2016 Snap judgements, pt 2

Last week in this space, we examined some early season surprise performers. And by the full power invested in us by the “Speculator” point of view, we were guided in our discovering by this one question:

If this early performance is real, what might it look like over a full season?

Sometimes, the performance we examine is surface stats—and for a few, we may look at the skill level. All with the goal of entertaining the thought that what we thought we know—we might not know at all. 

More background, and a list of nine hitters were covered last week. Now, we move on to the pitchers:  

 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Nathan Eovaldi (RHP, NYY) was tagged as a 2016 breakout candidate because of a consistent mid-90s fastball, and some movement in SwK and...

Almost!

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