A super streaky but ultimately pleasing 17-11 May for our boys that features win streaks of seven, six and four games, along with losing streaks of three and four.
As you'd expect, both our hitting and pitching have had their hot and cold moments. But, overall, things are looking decidedly positive to this point. Herzog remains a huge concern at the plate, again hitting well under what we need from him. Harvey, too, has struggled. But Smith and Pipp are both hitting over 300 and Lloyd is finally showing more along the lines of what we've thought he had all along. Our rotation has been great, and we currently have an NL-best starter ERA of 2.69. Somewhat surprisingly given his stellar performance last year, it is Dauss dragging the chain a bit and we're looking for a sharp improvement from him henceforth. One really pleasing point is the steep improvement in our defence (+6.6 ZR, 4th in the NL), and we'll be working hard for that trend to continue.
Obviously still very early doors, but the BoSox are looking strong again in the AL, while the Cards have done as the tipsters thought and started the campaign well.
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