Opening weekend overreactions, 2026
Apr 1 2026
Sweating out saves. Compulsively checking live scoring. Spending Sunday trying to figure out FAAB bids. In other words, a return to normal for us fantasy-obsessed.
With only a few days in the books, it's too early for even our snappiest of snap judgments—we'll start those next week—so let's play loose and overreact to what we saw this past weekend.
League-wide trends
A quick check on league-wide contact, power, and speed metrics from the season's first four days (data from FanGraphs through Sunday's games):
A massive grain of salt obviously applies, but there are some noteworthy data points from our four-day sample:
| Season | BB% | AVG | K% | Barrel% | HR/F | SB% | SBO% |
| 2023 | 8.2% | .243 | 22.4% | 7.5% | 11.4% | 75.4% | 7.6% |
| 2024 | 8.6% | .248 | 22.7% | 8.1% | 12.7% | 80.2% | 9.8% |
| 2025 | 8.4% | .245 |
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