SPECULATOR: What if we're wrong? (All-Avoid edition)
May 3 2012
Continuing our theme from last week, let's explore the possibility that we were wrong, and the marketplace was right, about the 2012 outlooks of our All-Avoid team? After one month's worth of results, we may need to adjust our expectations for these players. As a reminder, All-Avoid didn't mean that our pre-season projections on these players weren't optimistic or even aggressive. The designation simply indicated that the marketplace as a whole (as measured by ADPs) was valuing these players higher than we were.
After several years of declining skills capped with season-ending shoulder surgery in 2011, there seemed to be every reason to de-value Hanley Ramírez (3B, MIA) entering 2012. But whether it was name recognition, belief in...
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