The first rule of April performances is: You do not talk about April performances. A win in April may be as valuable as a win in September, but a hot week in April isn’t any more meaningful than a hot week in September. It’s just that, without a full season’s worth of performance to put it into context, it’s hard to resist the temptation to extrapolate 10 games to 162. I guess it’s possible that the Dodgers might lose 103 games or that Patrick Corbin will strike out 300 batters, but more likely it’s just too early to make any grand pronouncements about how a player, or a team, has performed so far.



That goes doubly so for the Royals, who have already had two games postponed due to weather and played a half-dozen more in conditions that baseball was never meant for. (I understand that the Royals are given short shrift by the schedule makers, but scheduling a series on Hoth was uncalled for.) So yes, Kansas City’s rotation is pitching...