Wow. Just…. wow. I mean, I know the Rockies have historically been successful in April, but leading the NL at month’s end is something else. We are still only a month into the baseball season, however. Besides some trivial factoids to describe what has occurred thus far, what can we really conclude about this team’s performance thus far?
In answering such a question, we must be mindful of one very important aspect—sample sizes. We must first establish a threshold for sample size of each metric. Any samples greater than that of the established threshold can be used for meaningful analysis.