We are already through one week of games in Major League Baseball. If you are like me in New York, you have already seen the Mets rained out three times. The weather has wrecked havoc on teams all up and down the East Coast. That’s baseball life in March and April where the only predicable thing is that the weather stinks. Now is about the time we will start to hear folks stay things like, “there is still a lot more baseball to go so don’t panic” or, “it’s still way too early in the season for X”
Oh really?
Tell that to the Miami Marlins who are 0-8 as I write this. No matter how you thought the Marlins would fare in 2024, 0-8 is already too big a hole to crawl out from. To boot, their first four games were at home. It is already late for them. Even if they play .500 ball over the first half of the season, they are still eight games under .500 and most likely out of playoff contention. At this point, with no Sandy Alcantara, do you see Miami being even a .500 club? Conversely, the New York Yankees had perhaps the best start of any team in baseball. They went 6-1 against two of the premier squads out there, with all games away from home. Beginning a season as the Yanks have done can carry a team all the way to a division title. This is not to say New York will win the American League East as the defending champion Baltimore Orioles will have plenty to say about that. However, the odds are long that the Yanks will miss the postseason for the second consecutive year.
I know, there are over 150 games remaining in the Major League Baseball season. There is still much drama left for all teams, even for the Marlins. However, just know that even though we are early in this campaign, it is getting really late for Miami.
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