SPECULATOR: Searching for the next Blake Snell
Feb 20 2019
Around this time last year, I posed the following (seemingly impossible) question out on Twitter, the answer to which would win a lot of leagues:
From 2014-17, we've had six players post first-round value with a 195+ ADP:
2014: Brantley, Rendon, DGordon
2015: Keuchel
2016: Villar
2017: JudgeRecent history says 1-2 will do it this year. Who ya got?
— Ryan Bloomfield (@RyanBHQ) March 21, 2018
The eventual answer? Blake Snell (LHP, TAM), who won the AL Cy Young, and with a preseason Average Draft Position (ADP) of 197, likely brought home some hardware for his fantasy owners as well.
Finding this year's Snell is a speculative task for sure, but if recent history is any indication, he's out there somewhere. Let's take a quick look at...
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