With summer almost upon us and spring slipping away, so too do our excuses for why our players are under or overproducing what we expected when drafting them. Saying, “It’s still just May” is perfectly sane but the deeper into summer you use the excuse of time, the more you’re probably fooling yourself. Since (nearly) two months are now in the books, let’s cleave this early part of the season into two and see what we can see.

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