We’re still not even close to where we need to be to get a decent statistical sample size for the 2017 Phillies, but we can definitely start to see outliers and statistical anomalies in some performances so far.
So it’s a good time to pop open the hood and take a look underneath some of the traditional stats and examine who is putting up numbers unlikely to be sustained over the course of the season by seeing which ones are fact and which ones are fiction:
2017: His sudden DL stint notwithstanding, Nola’s year so far is the perfect example why ERA is … well, stupid.