Every season, a handful of MLB players and teams get off to unexpectedly hot starts. And every year, some of those hot starts evaporate in the dog days of summer.
Then again, some of them don't. Sometimes the unexpected keeps happening, until it becomes the new normal.
Let's take a handful of guys and one whole squad that have shot out of the gate faster than a greased four-seamer and play a round of "real or fake," using the available evidence and a dash of old-fashioned gut feeling.
For our purposes, "real" means they'll sustain their current performance, or something close to it, and "fake" means, well, they won't.