Week one observations, 2025

It's easy to panic after your SP has a terrible start or two during the first week of the season. It can be similarly dangerous to fall in love with a pitcher who gives you good stats if they were produced without any underlying skill support.

Keeping in mind that we're dealing with tiny data samples, let's take a look at some extreme early season performances by focusing on the super early skills of starting pitchers.

Here are the way-too-early skills of starting pitchers with two starts so far in 2025:

NameLgK%BB%K-BB%GB%SwK%FpK%Ball%BPV
Logan GilbertAL41%2%39%52%20.6%82%31%253 
Nathan EovaldiAL33%0%33%61%17.2%59%30%222 
MacKenzie GoreNL41%5%36%23%14.9%73%32%222 
Zack WheelerNL41%5%36%44%16.8%64%35%209 
Yoshinobu YamamotoNL34%7%27%67%

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