No other sport’s first full slate of games can match Major League Baseball in the instant-overreaction department.
Fans and folks in and around the game love to alternatively extrapolate on performances (“After his two-steal effort, Jose Iglesias is now on pace for 324 steals”) as well as read far too much into what it all means after but one of 162 games.
That’s why we’re here now: to call attention to those immediate overreactions, and then—via a little Fact or Fiction—determine whether there’s any merit to the mayhem. After all, there are only 161 games to go now.