As a writer, the early days of the baseball season present a mixed blessing. On the one hand, baseball is back and I can write about actual events on the field. The small sample sizes, however, make it difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions about a player’s performance.
Conversely, the small sample sizes allow for amusing happenings that one wouldn’t find in the middle of the summer. Take Trevor Rosenthal for example. He recorded his first out of the season last night. He has appeared in five games and sports an ERA of 72. Chris Davis, meanwhile, still doesn’t have a hit to his name.