Forget playing time!
Jan 14 2024
Welcome back to the Speculator! Excited to kick off its 2024 season (my seventh on the beat; time flies) with a bevy of topics that help hone in on those 20% plays every Wednesday from now through September.
We typically start with an updated look at "UP:" and "DN:" side projections from the Baseball Forecaster for players whose outlooks may have changed since press time, but quite frankly, this offseason has been a slow drip of playing time news/signings. We'll start those next week in hopes the firehose kicks on at some point. This week, we'll throw up our hands at the almost unprojectable: playing time.
Veteran readers of the Forecaster already know that projecting players with any sort of accuracy is hard—a 70% accuracy rate is...
Almost!
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