There is an old statement about April baseball with which many baseball fans are familiar. “A division can’t be won in April, but it can be lost.” The source of this long-accepted quote seems to be lost to history, but it has been repeated many times.
The next question to ask is how true is this? How important is April performance? What end-of-April winning percentage dooms a team? More importantly for our purposes, what does the White Sox’s current April performance mean in terms of postseason odds, or even the odds of making 2019 a winning year, their first since 2012?