The major trends in baseball kept flowing in the same direction in April: more strikeouts, more walks and more home runs.
One month doesn’t make a season, but the first month of the 2019 season is an indication that how baseball is played continues to narrow. As skilled pitchers more and more keep the ball out of play, hitters more and more swing for the fences to make their few hits count. Increasingly it becomes a game of boom or bust.
Small sample size disclaimers are in order here. We still have 83 percent of the games to play.