SPECULATOR: Fun with tiny samples, pt 2: skill losers

Continuing our exercise from last week, let's look at the hitters and pitchers who have been showing diminished skills in their 2013 work.

As a reminder, we are employing some very rudimentary filters here: we're just taking our player projection files and comparing year-to-date performance to balance-of-year projections. Over the course of the summer, as the in-season data set grows, our projection system weighs in-season performance more heavily, so in-season and projected stat lines converge over time. At this early date, though, that process is just (barely) underway. So we can compare YTD to projected data as a quick-and-dirty way of isolating performances that are (at least per our projections) outliers.

First, the pitchers: (We...

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