SPECULATOR: Opening weekend takeaways
Apr 7 2021
Sweating out saves. Frantically checking live scoring. Spending Sunday afternoon grinding away at FAAB. In other words, a return to normal for the fantasy obsessed.
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 we can still offer up some macro-level takeaways, stream-of-consciousness thoughts, and just general observations on what went down this past weekend. Let's dig in.
The ball
"What's this year's ball going to be like?" is starting to become an annual part of our draft prep at this point. The early returns give us some clues as to what we're dealing with this year: a potentially bouncier ball that doesn't carry as much.
Using Statcast data, here's the...
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