We've been trained to ignore most of the on-field action during spring training, as success (or failure) during baseball's exhibition season doesn't necessarily foretell of the same once Opening Day rolls around.
Take the Colorado Rockies, for example. This spring, the Rockies sit 19th in batting average (.255) and 20th in runs scored (51) while posting the spring's sixth-best ERA (3.00) and ninth-lowest WHIP (1.28). We're smart enough to understand that those rankings will flip once the regular season begins.
Hopefully, we're also smart enough to know that statistics only tell part of the story and that you really need to look deeper to have a true understanding of what's going on, whether it be for an entire team or an individual.
For the five players on our list, that bit of extra digging reveals a forecast that calls for more rainy days than sunny ones this summer.
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