MLB: 5 teams playing way over their heads
By Robby Sabo
The reality that a handful of MLB teams play over their heads early is one that occurs every season. Which ones have we pinpointed as those in 2015?
Way too often, as baseball fans, we tend to slip into the norm of believing paper.
With information available at our fingertips 24/7, paper reveals which teams will succeed, or fail, through the course of a 162-game MLB schedule.
Then, when a surprising club busts out of the gate quicker than American Pharoah at the Preakness, we scratch our heads at the same time we claim “I saw that coming.” This happened last October with the defensively, speedy, bullpen greedy Kansas City Royals, and now, it’s happening again early on in 2015.
While paper tells us teams like the Houston Astros, New York Mets and Minnesota Twins had no chance to succeed in 2015, reality crosses the more realistic line of human nature always exhibiting a short-memory.
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Rarely do people remember hot starts. Instead, it’s always the hot finish that lives in our minds.
Having said that, for you geniuses who claimed these underdog-type teams would breakout in 2015, the job isn’t done yet. Now, as we sit at the quarter mark of the MLB season, you’re next job is to figure out who’ll eventually fall of the map during this grueling marathon of a season, and who’ll actually sustain success.
What we’re after today are not those surprising teams, but the ones who’ll eventually fall off the current pace.
Here are five MLB teams who are playing way over their heads, setting their fans up for a disappointing fall:
Next: Number 5