How good is Roy Halladay? The box score in my newspaper says the accomplished Texas offense "roughed him up" last night by scoring five times. Okay, but Halladay pitched eight innings, surrendered eight hits, walked nobody and struck out nine. If that's roughing him up, your team is doomed if he has a mediocre start against you.
The same paper celebrates the "surging" Pirates following its win over Florida...its second in a row. If that's a surge, I can leave my computer plugged in during a lightning storm. In case you're wondering, Pittsburgh is 6-4 in its last 10. Look out respectability!
There's a larger point here: there are no trends in the first 15 games of the season, so you can stop looking for them. They haven't even played one-tenth of the season. Today's team looks very different than the one that ends the campaign, whether because of injuries, performance, trades, call-ups or some combination of all of them.
More importantly, it's way too early for conclusions. If a team wins 22 of 30, okay, that's a trend. A couple in a row -- against the same team? C'mon.
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