The NPB season is less than two weeks old, so it’s too early to know if anything we’ve seen so far really has staying power.
Once the year is a few months old, and the picture of the season begins to take shape, it’ll be possible to go back and mine the first few weeks of play for signs of the trends that have taken place.
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