SPECULATOR: The BF19 DN: list

Within the player commentaries of the Baseball Forecaster, we offer some UP: (and DN:) projections that are intended to reflect a ceiling (or floor) beyond the accompanying 2019 projection. As described in the book:

Upside (UP) and downside (DN) statistical potential appears for some players; these are less grounded in hard data and more speculative of skills potential.

We've spent the last two weeks looking at the "UP:" siders (batters | pitchers), and we'll now turn our attention to the more pessimistic side of the coin.

The "full" lists of DN: hitters and pitchers are included here; maybe we should be harsher next season. Average Draft Position (ADP) data is courtesy of the NFBC and through February 4.

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