STARTERS: Week one observations, 2020

Gambling on small data samples is even more critical in 2020, since there is more of a premium placed on roster churn given the shortened season.

With ten percent of the season already behind us, let's take a look at some extreme early season performances by putting them into the context of our preseason outlooks.

Among the top ten highest skilled SP in MLB over the first week, four of them were on the CLE staff.
 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Dylan Bundy (RHP, LAA) carried some sneaky post-hype breakout appeal heading into 2020 in spite of some warts that he needed to correct (declining fastball velocity, homer-prone fastball/changeup). Bundy's first start of 2020 reminded us of why he used to be one of the game's premier SP prospects (7/0 K/BB in...

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