Today’s the last day of May, which means we are about to finish the second month of the baseball season. Memorial Day, two months of games, one-third of the season — however you want to express it, it’s about time that we begin to understand MLB’s standings and leaderboards as something more than amusing, random number-generators.
We’ve reached the season’s first real checkpoint. And at this checkpoint, we want to understand how teams have done thus far as actual occurrences — things fans and players have experienced for 60 days or more — while understanding that those trends might or might not continue.