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First things first, we need to get the usual caveats out of the way: The Angels have thus far played 26 out of 160 games, which is obviously a pretty small percentage, and not nearly enough of a sample size to definitively say anything except what they’ve done in 26 games. Of course, if you’ve ever watched Baseball Tonight, you know that fact doesn’t stop most people.  That said, with the uneven performances we’ve seen from the team thus far, I think it’s a fair question to ask.
So far this season, the Angels have played Minnesota, Detroit, Oakland, [...]

Regression, or regression to the mean, is not something that is typically talked about in non-saber baseball forums and blogs, in my experience. The basic concept is that players will have times when they will play above their skill level, and because of things like a small sample size or a player have a stretch of good luck, their numbers will be better than their actual skill level. As that sample size increases, however, the luck will run out or the stretch of playing over their heads will end, and their numbers will start to trend back towards their actual [...]