It’s easy to overreact to just about everything in baseball, and equally easy to forget that there are a whopping 162 games in the regular season. The Kansas City Royals have only played four of them. If the baseball season were a football game, there would be 13 minutes and 30 seconds left in the first quarter right now. Four games is nothing.
However, that doesn’t mean those four games are meaningless. It’s important to keep in mind their context, yes, but there’s something about watching actual real life baseball games that helps convert what we know to be true into a more concrete form—from theory into practice, so to speak.