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Effectively Wild Episode 1990: Week 1 Non-Overreactions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Importance of Early Season Expectations

I think there was a backlash, a sort of a sabermetric backlash to people who would make too much of early season results. And then there was kind of a tendency to be like, nothing matters, you know? Right. So maybe we found a happy medium. It's sort of like spring training stats where the constant refrain was these don't matter at all. Then some people did some studies and found, well, they could matter a little bit.

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