Nineteen games does not a season make, and it’s a sample size small enough for there to be the kind of skewed noise that, at season’s end, won’t reflect at all in the final numbers. But when there’s the kind of noise that skews something all the way to the top, or bottom, of a league-wide leaderboard, it’s probably worth highlighting at the time to see if it sticks, or fades away.
Through nineteen games, Cincinnati Reds pitchers have been the unluckiest group in all of Major League Baseball...if you ascribe to the notion that BABIP is a true indicator of luck.