Aaron Judge is making contact and Edwin Encarnacion is not. Is it still too early to care? Maybe not.
Fresh off a stint in South Korea, Milwaukee’s Eric Thames is on pace to mash nearly 80 home runs this season. If you were to ask the average baseball fan to estimate how many long balls the Milwaukee Brewers first baseman will end the year with, chances are they would take the under. It is still April, and the alliterative refrain of “small sample size” has not died quite yet.
That does not mean Thames won’t be a bargain or that his monstrous power surge tells us nothing.