BATTERS: 2018 Gambles

This column will help you identify batters who may be overvalued heading into draft day. We'll do so by looking at batters whose 2017 production was not backed up by strong underlying skill support.

Here are the batters with the worst skills in 2017 among those who earned at least $5 that season:

<25 BPV, 5x5 $5+, 2017*

Name                Lg  Position     bb%  ct%  Eye   PX   HctX  xPX  Spd  5x5 $  BPV
==================  ==  ===========  ===  ===  ====  ===  ====  ===  ===  =====  ===
Villar, Jonathan    NL           2B   7%  67%  0.23   89    90   83  106    $12  -11
Desmond, Ian        NL        LF/1B   6%  74%  0.28   61    82   60  116    $12   -3
Davis, Chris        AL           1B  12%  57%  0.31  149    96  152   76     $5   -3
Freese, David      ...

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