Bad Aprils for Oakland A's hitters don't predict much

You may have noticed that a few Oakland Athletics hitters are not doing so well at the plate. But fear not! A bad April is not a portender of a bad rest of the season. In fact, you'd do a lot better to stick with a player's preseason PECOTA projection as your projection for the rest of the season.

Here is every A's player with an OPS below .550 so far in order of how far that OPS is below their preseason PECOTA projection:

PA OPS thru Apr 20 PECOTA OPS Diff Chris Coghlan 40 .541 .681 -.140 Coco Crisp 41 .535 .679 -.144 Billy Butler 22 .513 .741 -.228 Mark Canha 14 .500 .734 -.234 Khris Davis 49 .420 .758 -.338 Yonder Alonso 47 .301 .716 -.415 I hopped into the Baseball-Reference Play Index…