The first month of a season is a free ticket to “small sample theatre,” in which Tim Beckham’s OPS can be twice that of Mookie Betts. Today, as we see who’s hot and who’s not, we channel our inner Mark McGwire and proclaim, “I’m not here to talk about the past — I’m here to help predict the future.”
The Red Hot Seattle Mariners
With a hat tip to the Tampa Bay Rays, the hottest team out of the gate was the team that swept Oakland in Tokyo to open the season: the Seattle Mariners, winners in 13 of their first 16 games.