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Should We Care About the A's Run Differential Yet?

Small sample sizes abound, but is there enough here yet to tell us anything about whether or not this team is any good?

As someone who lives for baseball analysis, the first few weeks of the baseball season are both euphoric and incredibly frustrating. On one hand, after 6 long months of waiting, real live the-games-actually-count baseball is back, and it's heavenly! On the other hand, for the first few weeks of the season, the statistics have such a small sample as to be nearly devoid of any meaning whatsoever. You have things like Alberto Callaspo hitting .