SPECULATOR: Longshot leaders and award winners, 2017
Apr 6 2017
Each year in this space, we close out the pre-season calendar with a look at some possible long-shot league leaders and award winners (and yes, we know the season started). Don't worry, these out-on-a-limb predictions shouldn't have influenced your Draft Day plans, anyway. But in true Speculator form, they have us all something more to consider. It's not at all interesting to predict a Mike Trout MVP or a Clayton Kershaw Cy Young Award. Around here, we dig deeper.... and last year, we dug up Jonathan Villar as the NL's stolen base champ in this space. Now, we're on to 2017...
Batting champions
National League
Adam Eaton (OF, WAS) was a "nice" hitter in Chicago: his OBP is a real-world asset, but his low-80% contact rate and .270s xBA...
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