No player had a bigger impact on the first month of success for the Seattle Mariners than Jorge Polanco. With a whopping 2.19 win probability added, both the quality of his hits and when he hit them provided the M’s with more important and impactful performance than ANY player in MLB through March and April. Just for kick(change)s, the only other player above 2.00 WPA in the season’s first month and change was Andrés Muñoz. If you felt like 2021 was back, you weren’t wrong, friends. But while WPA often follows other actual, direct gauges of performance, it’s not predictive at all.
Polo opposites: is Jorge’s awful May any more or less real than his brilliant April?
