Let’s be honest: part of the fun of baseball is making a huge deal out of something that’s nothing. This is “fun” when it’s done tongue-in-cheek: obviously we know that the Mariners won’t win at a 13-3 clip for the entire season [sob], nor will Jay Bruce run a negative BABIP (how is that even possible?), but it’s funny to talk and deal in the absurdity of these things. After a game, Tim Beckham was going to be a 34 WAR player! Amazing!
But I tell you, that’s not granular enough. We need to break it down more.