We’re only a month into the season, so every division is still up for grabs, but that didn’t stop our MLB.com experts from trying to read the tea leaves.
A slow start, in and of itself, doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The question is when, exactly, a slow start becomes worthy of genuine concern. So we looked at nine players who carried shaky starts into May — the bad, the good news and our (subjective) take on how worried we need to be.
The manual scoreboard at Greenville’s Fluor Field — part of a 30-foot replica of Boston’s Green Monster — was no match for a top-ranked Red Sox prospect.
Twelve of softball’s brightest stars have officially gotten the news: They’ve headed to the next level. As for how they found out? Well, you’ll have to see it to believe it.