April is a challenging time to be a baseball fan. On the one hand, April means baseball is back from its winter slumber, which is nothing short of a gift from the gods after five months of agonizing wait.
On the other hand, this enthusiasm inevitably leads to people jumping to conclusions about player performances over the first few weeks of the season. We can’t help it. It’s simply human nature to make rash judgments on every morsel of data we get after give months of nothingness.
We are fast approaching the one-month mark for the 2017 season, which means…that it’s still too early to rush to judgment.