April is a very weird month for baseball in the east coast, or more specifically, the northeast. Depending on the week, you can have brutal weather for a combination of reasons. That ranges from torrential rain to absurd wind gusts, or to just normal cold temperatures! When you combine this with the fact that players have spent the better part of the last two months in the warm weather of Florida and Arizona, you end up having injuries, slow ramp ups, and weird data.
There is usually a point in April when a player has an injury that comes up and people shout, “what the heck!