Quarterly report: Things are just getting started  Brewers,
Giants, Tigers, as well as Cueto and Abreu, among those fast out
of the gate  Quarterly report: Things are just getting started
By any measure, the baseball season is one-quarter of the way
home on its annual journey to October. That's long enough to
allow 2014 to establish its own identity with a few trends and
breakout performances, giving us a glimpse of what's ahead. But
that's about it, same as it ever was.  One-quarter of the way
through might be enough for some to judge a movie, or a song, or
even a sports article. And, getting to the point quickly with
that in mind, one-quarter of the way through simply is not
enough time to judge how a full baseball season will turn out.
It'll be true for a while: There's a lot of baseball left. Even
with more than 45 days in the 183-day championship season behind
us and with most teams having hit or passed the 40-game mark on
the road to 162, hundreds of games and dozens of storylines have
yet to be playe