The conventional line of thinking when it comes to truly evaluating a baseball season at large is to give it until Memorial Day before doing so.
With 162 of these things we have to sit through, it can be easy to get in a tizzy over one or two matchups early on in the year; Friday night’s 12-inning Red Sox loss at the hands of the Kansas City Royals, perhaps the dumbest game in the sport’s history, is a prime example of that. It’s understandable to get worked up at this juncture, but an important three-word refrain is key to keep in mind for the first few weeks of a baseball campaign: “It’s still early.