It's hard to know which breakouts to trust when Major League Baseball is still in the small-sample-size portion of a brand new season. Some are for real. Some lean more toward fraudulent.
Today, MLB Metrics 101 is going to weed out the frauds.
Hello and welcome back. Our goal is to address 10 breakouts from early in the 2018 season that are not what they seem. This involves using assorted metrics to highlight large discrepancies between what a player's results are and what his results should be.
We'll start with five pitchers and end with five hitters.