Every year, there are a handful of players who shock us in the season's opening weeks.
There are nobodies, rookies, and washed-up veterans who emerge as the game's top players by May, while some of baseball's biggest stars make their fans embarrassed to don their jerseys.
In this week's Featured Columnist poll, 16 of Bleacher Report's top baseball writers weighed in on which hot hands and slow starters we should begin idolizing or start worrying about, respectively.
This slideshow showcases 10 hot starters (look for the cold-starter results tomorrow), each with a rating of "the real deal," "expect some regression," or "Mayday! Mayday!" (the results were curved, so the majority/plurality answer did not always win)
Instead of featuring two opposite positions for each player, each slide f ...
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Article written by Lewie Pollis
MLB Featured Columnists’ Poll: Which Hot-Starting Players Are For Real?
Posted: 19th May 2010 by Lewie Pollis in MLBComments Off on MLB Featured Columnists’ Poll: Which Hot-Starting Players Are For Real?