C.J. Cron is one of many hitters making noise this spring. We parse the tea leaves to see what we can glean from the early returns.

Small samples and cardboard cutouts in a year derailed by COVID. Time to hand out some mulligans.

A rough year for Bryant and Baez on the North Side, but is the market punishing them too harshly? We use 2020 vs. 2021 ADP to identify some recency bias rebound targets.

What lessons can we learn from the duds of Justin Verlander, Patrick Corbin, and Frankie Montas in 2020?

We spend too much time trying to unearth the next "sleeper". How about avoiding the next early-round landmine?

Does Blake Snell pitch deeper into games with SD? We'll revisit several "UP" projections from the 2021 Baseball Forecaster.

Rowdy Tellez and Randal Grichuk both earned "UP"side speculations in this year's Forecaster, but things have changed in TOR since press time.

We speculate on SP whose new pitch mix might help them stave off regression in 2021.

The hardest thing to project in January? Playing time. We remove it from our projections to see who bubbles up.

With a short season and longer-than-ever postseason, why aren't we using postseason stats to evaluate players? The Speculator returns for 2021...

Christian Yelich's collapse was one of many wild storylines in a wild sprint season. Time to check back on our speculative calls from draft season.