Bizarro World

I know that we're only a week into baseball season, but some of the early returns are surprising (small sample sizes are fun!):

• - Two of the favored AL division winners picked by almost everybody, Boston and Detroit, are sitting in dead last. Detroit still has not won a game.
• - The sexy pick to win the other remaining AL division, Seattle, is also in dead last.
• - Meanwhile, the two teams that gave up in the offseason to commit to rebuilding (and openly admitted the fact), Baltimore and Florida, are both winning their respective divisions.
• - The Texas Rangers have had quality starts in 5 of their 6 games this year, after having only 55 the entire 2007 season.
• - A catcher leads both the AL and NL in batting average (A.J. Pierzynski and Jason Kendall).
  

Thank goodness for the Giants. We can always depend on them to suck no matter what.