BATTERS: Gambles 2016

This column will help you identify established batters who may be overvalued heading into draft day and therefore could struggle to return full value in 2016.

Here are the batters with the worst skills in 2015 among those who earned at least $5 that season.

<35 BPV, R$ $5-15, 2015*

Name           League  Position     bb%  ct%  Eye   PX   HctX  xPX  Spd  '15 R$  BPV
=============  ======  ===========  ===  ===  ====  ===  ====  ===  ===  ======  ===
Bourn, M           AL           CF  10%  75%  0.43   39    70   61  111      $6  -14
Taylor, M          NL           CF   7%  67%  0.22   95    92  115  108     $12   -9
Owings, C          NL        2B/SS   5%  72%  0.18   76    92   92  117      $5   -3
Butler, J          AL        DH/LF   6%  68%  0.20  107   ...

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