STARTERS: Very early observations, 2019
Apr 5 2019
It's easy to panic after your SP has a terrible start or two during the first week of the season. It can be similarly dangerous to fall in love with a pitcher who gives you good stats if they were produced without any underlying skill support.
Keeping in mind that we're dealing with tiny data samples, let's take a look at some extreme early season performances by putting them into the context of our preseason outlooks.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Matthew Boyd (LHP, DET) has missed more bats in the early-going than any other SP in the AL (20.2% SwK%), helping to validate some of the breakout upside we saw from him heading into 2019 drafts. His overall skills have been electric (246 BPV) due to a 23/4 K/BB in 11 IP. And his 3.18 ERA would be even...
Almost!
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