SPECULATOR: Opening weekend, 2022
Apr 13 2022
Sweating out saves. Compulsively checking live scoring. Spending Sunday night (after an afternoon at a three-year-old's birthday party) studying FAAB. In other words, a return to normal for us fantasy addicts.
With only a few days in the books, it's too early for even our snappiest of judgments—we'll start on those next week—but there are a few macro-level takeaways and just general observations on what went down this past weekend. Let's dig in.
The ball… and hitter odds-n-ends
Premature, sure, but a quick league-level look at strikeouts and home runs from this weekend compared to previous seasons through April 10:
Year K% HR/FB Hard% ==== === ===== ===== 2019 23% 14.3% 36.9% 2020 --- 2021 25% 13.4% 31.6% 2022 23%...
Almost!
You’re just a few clicks away from accessing this feature and hundreds more throughout the year that have a singular goal in mind: Winning your league. Subscribe to BaseballHQ.com here!
Already a subscriber? Sign in here
More From Speculator
Slow starts, or is something wrong beneath the hood? We speculate...
Apr 30 2025 3:10am
Apr 30 2025 3:10am
Our annual April exercise at those projected for the best skills, but haven't had the playing time to get there.
Apr 23 2025 3:09am
Apr 23 2025 3:09am
Most starters are 3-4 starts in... time to overreact with some (skills-based!) snap judgments.
Apr 16 2025 3:06am
Apr 16 2025 3:06am
Spencer Torkelson's turnaround is getting plenty of QBaB support.
Apr 9 2025 3:02am
Apr 9 2025 3:02am
Baseball is back and we're here to overreact. We'll speculate on several Opening Weekend storylines.
Apr 2 2025 3:09am
Apr 2 2025 3:09am
