Nine games in a shortened 2020 season was meaningful by default, but with baseball back to a 162-game schedule, the statistics that come from barely over a week of play — and the first week at that — can be hard to parse for real meaning.
The small sample over the Orioles’ first nine games is similarly opaque. One can glean whatever they want to from most of the information this team has generated.
However, whether it’s expected improvement or regression back to normal as the season barrels through April and beyond, there are some indicators that change could be on the horizon.