This week’s Stock Ticker takes on added importance because of where we are in the season. This is the beginning of the season’s seventh week, which means we’re approximately one-quarter of the way through the 2019 MLB campaign. Baseball is inherently a game of small samples, but, within the context of one season, you eventually reach a point where you have to take the season-long data at face value. We have reached that point.
This column isn’t a weathervane. It won’t respond to the natural vagaries of baseball that force even the likes of Mike Trout into an occasional slump or Derek Dietrich to look like an MVP candidate for a week or two.