April is a unique month on the baseball calendar. So many weird things happen and it can mostly be attributed to one thing.
“Small sample size.”
That phrase is used constantly during the first month of the season, mostly because one month’s worth of statistics, the randomness of baseball, and the limited number of plate appearances makes for some pretty fascinating, if ultimately unreliable, data.
So with April nearly in our rear-view mirror, here are five statistics that are either surprising, confusing or simply just flat-out weird.
Jeremy Hellickson’s Wide WAR Totals:
Actually, Hellickson has a bunch of odd numbers through his first five starts of the season.