With all the excitement that surrounds the start of a new baseball season, it's often difficult not to overreact to a small sample size.
In the grand scheme of things, the first week of the MLB season amounts to less than five percent of the months long grind that is the 162-game schedule.
A team's record during the opening week will be a distant memory by May, and a red-hot start or agonizing early slump can quickly be erased, but that doesn't stop the early returns from being overanalyzed.
So why not lean into it?