ROTISSERIE: Playing it safe on draft day

(An earlier version of this article appreared on March 7; a few errors in that version have been updated here.)

Risk management is a draft-day factor that is given its due here at BaseballHQ.com. It is important enough that we factor in a three-letter Reliability designation (e.g., ABC) to monitor players' health, playing time, and consistency. In other words, how much time a player has spent on the DL to date in his career, how much guaranteed playing time he will receive, and how consistent his performance has been are three important aspects of a player to consider when drafting. In fact, in our 2017 Baseball Forecaster, we recommend considering risk assessment as part of everyone's draft-day strategy. However, we rightly caution not...

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