Draft: Projecting category leaders
Identifying the draftees who have the most potential in homers, steals, wins ...
Updated: June 8, 2012, 1:18 PM ET
By Kevin Goldstein | Baseball Prospectus
Now that the 2012 MLB draft is in the books, let's look at the players most likely to help us fantasy owners.
When I first started this assignment, I went about projecting total performance, but was reminded quickly how dangerous that can be at this point. So I decided to look at individual categories, which of course led to me examining the standard fantasy categories. With that, here are the top projected category contributors from the 2012 MLB draft:
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