Ken Davidoff's baseball insider

Brian Cashman has a stack of DVDs in his office. He hasn't yet watched them, and he doesn't know if he will. It's the games of Triple-A Scranton.

With the weather so ridiculously cold, Cashman said, he's not sure what, if anything, he can glean from viewing. He figures he'd be better off spending his time on other pursuits.

Small sample sizes are hard enough when you're talking about baseball, but this April has been far more difficult to draw conclusions. Between the myriad days off and the terrible conditions in which so many games have been played, baseball officials know better than to infer much. For instance, one American League official who spoke on the condition of anonymity believes that the Red Sox pitchers, largely a flyball group, have benefited from the cold. Some balls, that have stayed in the park, will go out later as the heat arrives.

How difficult is that for you, as the paying customers? Are you prone to wondering whether Carlos Delgado and David Wright will ever go deep again? Are you ready to declare Akinori Iwamura a future Hall of Famer?

Certainly, many in the media are guilty of such rushes to judgment. As fans, how hard is it, after so many months of waiting for live action, to sit back and let the season play out some more before you start worrying/celebrating?