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%...
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