Opening Weekend Overreactions, 2025
Apr 2 2025
Sweating out saves. Compulsively checking live scoring. Spending Sunday trying to figure out FAAB bids. In other words: A return to normal for us fantasy-obsessed.
With only a few days in the books, it's too early for even our snappiest of snap judgments—we'll start on those next week—but let's play loose and overreact to what we saw this past weekend.
League-wide trends
A quick check on league-wide contact, power, and speed metrics from the season's first four days (data from FanGraphs):
| Season | BB% | AVG | K% | Barrel% | HR/F | SB% | SBO% |
| 2022 | 8.2% | .243 | 22.4% | 7.5% | 11.4% | 75.4% | 7.6% |
| 2023 | 8.6% | .248 | 22.7% | 8.1% | 12.7% | 80.2% | 9.8% |
| 2024 | 8.2% | .243 | 22.6% | 7.8% | 11.6% | 79.0% | 11.0% |
| 2025 | 9.4% | .231 | 22.4% | 8.8% | 13.1% | 81.0% | 11.0% |
A few noteworthy data points from our four-day sample:
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