Disclaimer: This post was written with Spring Training stats through Saturday’s games. Since then, Eddie Rosario hit a few homers, Sean Murphy hit a homer, and there’s probably some other stuff that might slightly change the conclusions herein, but probably not that much. Make whatever mental adjustments you feel are warranted accordingly.
In years past, especially before stuff got wonky with a pandemic and then a shortened, post-lockout ramp up to the season, we historically did quick Spring Training stat reviews. You can dig one of those up if you want, but the basic ideas were:
- Spring Training stats, in terms of outputs, were basically meaningless, because outputs don’t stabilize or have any real predictive power over the 50-odd PAs a player participating “full time” will get in Spring Training.