The regular season requires a certain retraining of the mind. It’s easy to over-analyze early season performances when its’s all we’ve got to analyze at all. Things take a while to settle down, and for months numbers look hilarious while players settle in. Those early season numbers mean little a vast majority of the time; the Dodgers aren’t going to get shutout day in and day out. Baseball is a sport that takes a huge sample to mean a thing.
Except when they don’t.
It’s not clear what the A’s are expecting and hoping for from Lucroy this season.