There are many questions to ask based on the Q1 data from the 2026 Major League Baseball season. Like what took so long for the implementation of ABS, a thing that most baseball purists would tell you is perfectly fine after all? With the Angels once again struggling, are we ever going to see Mike Trout play in the playoffs again? And of course there's the most important question of them all ... does the American League stink? It's no secret that early returns have brought about tremendous inequity between the American and National League. It's a trend that has continued through April and now into mid-May. Only three teams in the AL have played above .500-level baseball while eight teams are above that baseline in the NL. If that continues—and this isn't a tiny sample size to base that projection on—it is quite obviously going to be much more difficult for those in the Senior Circuit to land a spot in the postseason than in the middling AL.…