On May 1, 2018, the Los Angeles Dodgers looked like a crumbling franchise, the Arizona Diamondbacks were only a game within the best record in baseball, and the New York Mets showed signs of their 2015 National League Championship selves. Oh, and on top of all that, Didi Gregorius was running away with the American League MVP award.
Fast-forward to the end of the season, and none of that happened, or even came close to happening.
Events in the month of April get magnified. It is, at this point in the season, the only data we have, so we scrutinize it more than any other month of the baseball year, perhaps save only for October.