Turns out the only player worse than Randy Arozarena is Jackson Holliday. Batting a robust .033

Max Fried with a gorgeous takedown of the Marlins. CGSO in I think 29 batters faced.

lol Astros

Was thinking I had run out of personal stat assaults on the record book box score tracking after all these decades (starting with beyond epic Mays/Aaron duel to catch Ruth), but a few things are happening to tickle my stat bone.

De La Cruz ripping, slugging and stealing (13 XBH, 7 dingers, 15 steals with a week left in April). His K ratio still doesn't portend that he can sustain, but on the hopeful side his walk rates have been increasing significantly since he broke in.

Ohtani with 14 doubles (already the 2nd most ever in April apparently). Most ever in a month 20.

The perennial hope that Trout can stay healthy and put up a super monster season north of 50 dingers (already 10).

Seeing if Acuna or somebody can score 150 runs.

Seeing if Freeman can get to 600 or 700 doubles.

Mookie watch.

Kershaw GOAT bid.

I'm sure there is plenty more. But my "heyday" ended with Pujols one of those special players that from his first season you track to see just how deep into the Hall of Fame annals he gets.

If someone scores 150 runs it's Mookie Betts.

Trout finally hitting 50 home runs but as a DH that hits .240 would be an interesting career turn.

Pitchers unfortunately don't put up anything particularly impressive anymore as workloads are so low. I thought it was interesting how of the 3 active pitchers that lead the fiel by far in WAR, all 3 didn't start in their teams first 15 or so games. Verlander now has, Kershaw and Scherzer well have to wait.

Feels bad having passed on Ohtani in Fantasy but I know I am not alone.

Acuna scored 149 runs last year and is averaging one run per game this year while not hitting. Dude is sick. Betts high is 135, twice around 130-ish both in injury years. He's also at exactly one run per game this year, while hitting crazy. Weird how it works. Barry Bonds had a repeating high of 129 and then when he went super nova with homers, walks, avg. and OB% it stayed on 129 ... as he aged.

The way he's playing with pitcher to draw disengagement is gonna be a lot of steals. He could 30/30 this year

What kind of pre-season odds could you have gotten that after 25 games, the Astros would be at least 3 games back of the As in the standings. Nevermind the Angels.

Answer: All of them

Royals up 1-0 going into the top of the 9th against the Tigazz.

It's now 8-0 with 1 out and a pitching change.

People in Detroit have to be the dumbest segment of the population for putting up with those TV broadcasters' voices.

He's played 21 games in center and 4 at dh this year.

It could happen another year. I wasn't being super serious with that comment though.

Here's a fun stat. Scherzer leads Verlander by 14 k's for the active lead. Verlander is in a rotation now while Scherzer is just starting rehab. Could be some back and forth on this one.