Overreacting to the daily results of our favorite teams is as much a part of baseball as batting practice, hot dogs and rain delays. Forget the whole “the regular season is a marathon, not a sprint” nonsense—fanatics don’t want to hear it, and quite frankly, they aren’t listening to those who say it anyway.
Making sweeping conclusions about a player or team after just a few weeks of the regular season—especially when the results are strikingly different from what preseason projections and track records tell us—is an easy trap to fall into. But it’s one that you should avoid at all costs.
If you insist on making those conclusions anyway, at least do yourself a favor and don’t tell your friends about it. Because at some point this summer, one of them is going to remind you of what you said back in April—and you’re not going to appreciate it.
What follows are five of the biggest overreactions one could—but should not—make at this early juncture.