Well, it's been quite an eventful first month of the season. We've seen the Dodgers look like the best team in baseball, Shohei Ohtani's return as a two-way sensation and the worst leaguewide offense in the modern era.
Plenty of story lines are what we expected—Mike Trout is better than ever and Jacob deGrom is still doing his thing—while others were much harder to predict. Sports Illustrated's MLB staff weighed in on the biggest surprises of the season after its first month.
Tom Verducci
The Yankees, a team that led the American League in runs per game last year, and are loaded with star power, are boringly bad.