BATTERS: 2020 Gambles
Mar 9 2020
This column will help you identify batters who may be overvalued heading into draft day. We'll do so by looking at batters whose 2019 production was not backed up by strong underlying support from their skills.
Here are the batters with the worst skills in 2019 among those who earned at least $5 that season:
<25 BPV, 5x5 $5+, 2019*
Name Lg Pos bb% ct% Eye PX HctX xPX Spd $ EV LA BPV
============ == ======== === === ==== === ==== === === === ==== ==== ===
Alfaro, J NL C 5% 64% 0.14 98 97 102 88 $9 90.8 4.7 -26
Hamilton, B NL CF 9% 72% 0.37 41 59 41 154 $5 78.3 12.8 -10
Chavis, M AL 1B/2B 8% 63% 0.24 113 74 90 94 $8 88.8 12.0 ...
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