What the heck is going on here? I turn my back for one Easter weekend and when I wake up from my Peeps-induced diabetic coma, I see a ridiculously long list of players landing on the disabled list. You expect to see it from a guy like Rich Hill, but after going through the list, I’m wondering if we’re seeing more players DL’d this early because it’s now a 10-day minimum rather than a 15. Injuries are always abundant, but it seems like managers and teams have been a lot quicker at pulling the DL trigger than they have in years past. As a result, people are frantically scouring the waiver wire looking for help.

My man James Grande handles the waiver wire articles over here, so I’ll let him keep digging for names for you. Instead, inspired by today’s ‘waiver regrets’ on-air segment, I’d like to take a look at some of the top waiver adds we’ve seen so far this season and see if they’ve paid off at all. Spending a chunk of your FAAB budget or blowing your waiver priority can be a risky proposition this time of year, so we want to make you’re spending for not just the right reasons, but for the right players as well.

Mark Reynolds, 1B COL – He got off to a fantastic start to the season and garnered a ton of attention with earning the starting job and having that Coors exposure everyone loves. Those who snagged him in the final rounds of their drafts scored big time with the power boost and .300-plus batting average, but if you picked him up off the waiver wire and missed that white-hot first week, you’ve added a .261 average with one homer and just three RBI. Now obviously it depends on how much of your budget you spent to determine whether or not it was really worth it, but given the lack of depth at the position and the fact that you still have at least another two weeks of him receiving full-time at-bats. When David Dahl returns, it will be Gerardo Parra who sits more, not Reynolds.

Raul Mondesi, 2B KC – While the batting average was sitting in the toilet, Mondesi had three stolen bases in the first four games of the season which, given the panic everyone is in about speed this year, made him an instantaneous waiver darling. If you invested, you were only really looking for the speed, so the fact that he’s batted just .143 over the past seven days probably doesn’t sting as much with the home run and two steals he’s given you. He’s going to be a drain if he doesn’t improve his on-base skills, but the speed should persist and make him worth what you probably paid for him.

Chris Owings, SS ARI – I almost broke a blood vessel in my head screaming this guy’s name from the rooftops during the first week of the season. Those who missed out on speed in their draft were looking for someone under-the-radar for steals and this guy had swiped four bags inside that first week. I was actually on him even before that, but when I started writing articles about where to find your stolen bases that first week of the season, he was my go-to guy. Unfortunately, this second week has yielded exactly zero steals from Owings. In fact, the only counting stat you got from him was a sole run scored. He did bat .350 for the week, so it wasn’t like he was totally unproductive, though, but his four steals probably raised the price for him more than you would have liked. Still, there’s no reason to think he won’t find himself on another hot streak where he steals a few more moving forward. As long as he’s not a negative for your team.

Travis Shaw, 3B MIL – He was killing it in the first week of the season, having hit safely in five of his first six games and posting a .333 average with one home run and six RBI. Since that first week, though, he’s just 3-for-21 (.143) with one home run and two RBI. He did this exact same thing last year as he was hot in April and cold the rest of the way. There is nothing in his approach this year that says he’s going to be any different. You’ll certainly get some decent at-bat numbers for him, are at least you should, but if you paid a high price for him, you’ve got a bit of a waiver regret here.

Yasiel Puig, OF LAD – I was surprised to see in just how many leagues Puig went undrafted. And not just in 10-teamers, either. He got off to a white hot start to the season but then fell quickly into a 4-for-22 (.182) slump which probably had some people breathing easier having not missed the boat. But during this second week, we’ve seen a quick revival from that mini-slump and he’s now hit safely in each of his last five games with a home run, six RBI and a stolen base over that span. Even if picking him up cost you a pretty penny, you’re going to come out ahead. Like I’ve said before, sometimes you have to just take a leap of faith and hope for the best. That’s what I’m doing with Puig this year and I highly recommend you do as well.

Nomar Mazara, OF TEX – He had that really big Friday night at the end of the first week of the season and his numbers were juiced-up with that one home run and six RBI evening. His big, powerful-looking frame just makes him look like a beastly hitter and folks paid for it. Since that week, he’s only batted .269, but that power persisted as he mashed two more homers and added four more RBI to his totals. You’re going to see a fair amount of strikeouts, but this solid start means that if Joey Gallo comes to the outfield when Adrian Beltre returns, it’s not Mazara who is going to lose at-bats.

Marwin Gonzalez, 1B/OF HOU – He batted .333 with three home runs and six RBI over the first week of the season and people started to wonder if they somehow made a mistake overlooking this guy. He had multi-position eligibility and it appeared as if he was going to see some decent at-bats at the expense of a struggling Yulieski Gurriel at first base. If that was your thought process, then you made a big mistake as Gonzalez has never been anything more than a platoon player who occasionally flashed some power. Since that first week, he’s taken a back seat to Gurriel and has a .077 average with one run and one stolen base over the last seven days. If you paid up for him, here’s hoping it wasn’t much because it’s not like he’s going to see another week like that first week ever again. OK, maybe not never, but he certainly won’t be in your active lineup if he does.

To detail the number of pitchers picked up in this first week, it would take me hours. Since I don’t have that time and, well, neither do you, I’ll just categorize them as Worth It, Not Worth It and Undecided. I think the labels speak for themselves, but just in case:

Worth It -- you made a nice pick up

Ervin Santana, Antonio Senzatela, Michael Wacha, Greg Holland, Joaquin Benoit, Santiago Casilla

Not Worth It -- you wasted FAAB bucks and/or priority

Jason Vargas, Kendall Graveman, Wily Peralta, Matt Bush, Trevor Rosenthal

Undecided – there’s still potential here moving forward regardless of this past week

Kyle Freeland, Charlie Morton, Blake Treinen, Hector Neris

By the way, if you’re looking for a speculative add for saves, the Rangers just called up Keone Kela as Sam Dyson hits the DL. Jeremy Jeffress and maybe Matt Bush seem likely to be next in line for saves, but don’t be surprised to see Kela thrown into the mix quickly if he performs well.