SPECULATOR: "What if" full-timers + BF20 DN: list

Projecting players with any sort of accuracy is hard. Projecting playing time before spring training even starts? Pfft!

We essentially say as much on the home page for our 2020 projections. From the section on How the Projections are Created:

The more difficult part of the process is assessing playing time (PT). PT expectations are fluid, changing constantly based on what we expect to happen on any given day.

So what if we just ditch playing time, and speculate only on skills? By normalizing playing time across the board and prorating hitters to 600 plate appearances, which stat lines bubble up to the top? A few filters to build our speculative hitter list (projections as of February 2):

  • Between 100 and 400 projected plate...

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