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P!Christian Yelich has picked up right where he left off last season. The 2018 NL MVP hit his fourth homer Sunday and then a two-run double in the ninth inning that gave Milwaukee a dramatic 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. He has homered in the first four games of the season to match a major league record and can break the mark by going deep when the Brewers visit Cincinnati.“What we’re witnessing is greatness Alex Avila Jersey ,” teammate Ryan Braun said. “I’ve never seen anyone this good at baseball for this long.”Yelich batted .326 with 36 homers and 110 RBIs last year, leading Milwaukee to the NL Central title. He is 6 for 12 with six walks and eight RBIs already this season.“Candidly, I can’t recall a series like that,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “I’ve had some guys that are smoking hot against us, but I’ve never seen that kind of damage over four days.”WELCOME HOMEThe Indians, Pirates and Braves are set to play their home openers. Cleveland right-hander Mike Clevinger gets the ball following a breakout 2018 season. He’ll face Ivan Nova, making his first start for the Chicago White Sox after an offseason trade from Pittsburgh. The Pirates will start Chris Archer against St. Louis’ Adam Wainwright, and Atlanta (0-3) is calling on Sean Newcomb against Kyle Hendricks and the Chicago Cubs.MONEY FOR NOTHINGTwo of baseball’s biggest spenders are off to slow starts. Heading into the first full week of the season, the Yankees (1-2) and World Series champion Red Sox (1-3) are at the bottom of the AL East standings after both teams won 100 games last year. New York dropped two of three at home to a Baltimore team that went a major league-worst 47-115 last season. Next up, the Yankees welcome another rebuilding club to the Bronx in the Detroit Tigers. After losing three of four at Seattle http://www.diamondbacksfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-greinke-jersey , the Red Sox send October star David Price to the mound in Oakland for his first start of the season.LONG ROAD BACKDrew Smyly is set to make his Texas debut and his first major league start since September 2016 when the Rangers host Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros. Smyly, acquired from the Chicago Cubs in November, had Tommy John surgery in July 2017. The 29-year-old lefty is 31-27 with a 3.74 ERA in five big league seasons with Detroit and Tampa Bay.KING OF THE CASTLEFor years, Felix Hernandez was a shutdown ace for Seattle, and the Mariners couldn’t score enough runs to back him. Times have changed. After being passed over for opening day for the first time in a decade, the 32-year-old Hernandez will make his first start this season against the Angels. King Felix had a 15.95 ERA in spring training a year after going 8-14 with a 5.55 ERA during a miserable regular season. The good news? With the way Seattle is swinging the bats, he might not need to be great. The Mariners took three of four from Boston last weekend, averaging 8.5 runs per game. They’ve hit 15 homers, at least one in every game during a 5-1 start. It’s hard not to be excited but Michael Chavis and Bobby Dalbec, but slow down on the future roster projections."Michael Chavis is the owner of a legitimate bat. He made big adjustments a couple of years ago to make more contact and stop selling out to his pull-side Jake Lamb Jersey , and it has made all of the difference in the world. There’s no such thing as a sure thing for anyone without major-league experience, but I’m fairly confident he’s going to hold his own in the majors. That’s not to say he’s a superstar or anything like that, but he’s a solid bat that should carve out a role in the majors. Of course, we have no idea where he’d play in the field assuming his bat plays as well as I think it should. If the Red Sox can’t find a place for him defensively, he’ll likely serve as trade bait to a team that feels they do have a spot for him. Chavis is probably a major leaguer, but there’s no guarantee he’s a regular, never mind the decent chance he’s not even long for the organization.Dalbec has a higher ceiling than Chavis, and makes this a more interesting question with respect to the future at third base, but there’s reason to be more uneasy about his future at the plate. While Dalbec’s power is absurd and he can draw walks, but he’s also going to strike out. It’s easy to point at high strikeout rates around the majors and assume Dalbec’s current swing will cut it http://www.diamondbacksfanproshop.com/authentic-zack-greinke-jersey , but the guys who strike out a lot but are still productive in the majors didn’t strike out at a 35+ percent rate in the minors. There’s a major adjustment that needs to be made by Dalbec if he’s going to make it. Clearly it’s possible and the Red Sox have earned the benefit of the doubt in developing hitters, and if he does get to that point then he plays a good enough third base that he actually could push Devers off the position. That being said, the Red Sox shouldn’t start getting Devers anything besides more experience at first base until we start to see sustainable signs Dalbec is going to make enough contact to make an impact.This probably reads more pessimistic than I mean for it to, but the main takeaway is this: There is no logjam until there is more than one player at the position that has proven they are a major-league player. We are seeing what Chavis and Dalbec can be if they reach something close to their ceiling, and it’s wonderfully exciting. I’m enjoying every second of it. However, before we can talk about either of them pushing Rafael Devers off the hot corner or just generally affecting future roster plans, they have some outstanding questions that need to be answered. The good news is, they are the types of players that will be incredibly fun to watch while they provide those answers.