There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club from 2024 that thinks it can surprise some people. Oh yes, and the rampant lying.
Wait, what?
April baseball always offers some surprises, both positive and negative. It’s just a matter of determining which statistics are telling you the truth about what a player is now—and which are not. Regrettably, Chris “Big Red” Shelton could not maintain an 1.186 OPS throughout 2006 despite his
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