Opening Week

1. Not quite the start you'd want from the mets, but definitely some great early signs.
Both Santana and Oliver Perez look terrific early on, and keeping these two dominant throughout the season is essential, especially with the injury to Pedro. Additionally, the #3-#8 hitters are all batting over .300, with Church and Delgado both having surprisingly good starts. However, the Mets still can't seem to manufacture runs, which can be attributed in large part to the struggles of their table setters. Reyes and Castillo have slumped in the season's opening week, which is particularly scary for Reyes, who closed out last year in similar fashion. But the same old story has been the bullpen, who still doesn't appear to be able to get any out. This is going to need to change, or the boys from Queens could easily find themselves near the basement of the NL East.

2. It's hard to make a comment like this only 7 games into the season, but at some point you have to be concerned about the Tigers. Starting off 0-7 is digging quite a hole for yourself, and if it gets any deeper it may be tougher than you think to get out of it. Consider the following situation: If the Tigers drop 3 more and go to 0-10, they'd have to play .667 baseball just to get to .500 at the season's 1/4 mark. Not exactly promising for a team who opened up the favorites to win the World Series at 3:1. This is not to say the Tigers are overrated or that their season is over, but just a heads up that the hole they are digging is becoming problematic.

3. Other than the Tigers 0-7 mark, don't put too much stock into the early performances of teams. There's no reason for Indians', Mariners' or Rockies' fans to sweat a losing record after one week. By the same logic, I'd caution Royals, Cardinals and Marlins fans to get too enthusiastic over there early season mark. It's a long season, and the bad teams will show their true colors, just like the talented ones will hit their stride.