Thursday marked two weeks since the official Opening Day in Major League Baseball’s 2025 season, meaning we still have a veritable truckload of games to go. The Cubs have played 15 games while 15 teams have played 12 with everyone else in between. No team has even played 10% of its games yet.
In general, we know too much about baseball to start panicking after such a short stretch of the schedule. There are so many ebbs and flows throughout the season. For example, the Dodgers started 8-0 but then lost four of their next five games. The Brewers were 0-4 with a -30 run differential and then all of a sudden got hot. Stuff like that happens all the time.
Yet when it is this early, everything is magnified for each fan base that waited throughout an entire offseason and was presumably excited for the season to begin. Part of the fun of being a fan is getting antsy and even overreacting in the moment of one of the 162 games.
As is the case with any season, we’ve obviously seen a handful of teams get off to very disappointing starts. Let’s run through them with the Panic Meter.
The panic meter is scaled 0-10 with 0 being not a care in the world and 10 being mass hysteria. The 0-4 side is building concern while the 6-10 side is worry building toward panic. A 5 would be the center point between