What have we learned so far?
Published 4/9/2008 by Mychael Urban at Major League Baseball News
The 2008 season is but a week-and-a-half old for every team other than the Red Sox and A's, who got a jump-start in Japan, but it's never too early to identify trends and make sweeping proclamations
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