SPECULATOR: 2013 Longshot leaders and award winners, pt. 1
Mar 30 2013
As we do every year, we close out the pre-season calendar with a look at some possible long-shot league leaders and award winners. As always, our philosophy for this exercise is that anyone can predict a Miguel Cabrera MVP award or a Justin Verlander Cy Young campaign. We're not interested in that level of prognostication; we're going to stick our necks out a good bit further.
This week, we'll cover batting champions, SB leaders, and HR leaders. Next week we'll move on to MVP candidates, and the pitching leaders.
Batting champions
National League
Starlin Castro (SS, CHC): This is mostly a bet on the continuation of his 2nd-half growth from 2012, where he spiked his walk and contact rates concurrently. Anytime you see those skills...
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