Instant takeaways from the opening series

Now that the season has started and the 2022 games are underway, we have witnessed what this team can do. There was some of the expected (the hitting), the unexpected (three third basemen in three days?) and the pleasantly surprising (that rotation...). We saw pretty much a microcosm of this team and what it is capable of all weekend, so now is the perfect time to make snap judgements and instant observations that will undoubtedly hold up all season long.

Observation #1: The rotation is the best in all of baseball

Admit it, you didn’t think any of these pitchers had it in them to post starts like they had. Sure there were some people who saw that the team’s rotation was a strength like they…