Baseball is back, and if the first two days of the 2016 regular season are any indication, fans are in for one heck of a year. Late-inning rallies, superhuman defensive plays (we're looking at you, Kevin Pillar) and no-doubt home runs littered the Opening Day landscape.
But Opening Day also leads to crazy overreactions, some positive, some negative. Small sample sizes be damned—one game is all some people need to conclude that a team expected to contend has no chance of doing so, or that a star player is over the hill and should be discarded by the postgame cleanup crews.
Has everyone focused on the wrong shortstop as the favorite to win Rookie of the Year? Is a typically reliable ace dealing with a serious injury? Does common sense exist among some of baseball's decision-makers?
We'll hit on all of that and more in this week's edition of Fact or Fiction.
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