STARTERS: 2017 Very early slow start holds

With only extremely tiny data samples available to us after two weeks of the season, it's hard to put a lot of analytical reliability in skills at this point in the year.

That said, many owners will make rash drop decisions very early in the season once they start to accrue bad stats from their SP.

Let's take a closer look at several SP in each league whose bad starts shouldn't lead you to selling low.
 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Kyle Gibson (RHP, MIN) has carried breakout potential for a while now but has never been able to turn his good stuff into good skills. That has also been in the case in the early part of 2017 (69 BPV in first two starts). But underneath his aggregate skills are some intriguing command sub-indicators: 13.2% SwK%, 67%...

Almost!

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