Two weeks into the Major League Baseball season, the standings look little like the ones forecasters drew up in February. The Baltimore Orioles, picked by most outlets to finish third in the American League East, sit atop the AL at 11-3 after sweeping the Toronto Blue Jays in a three-game set that ended Thursday night at Camden Yards. The Los Angeles Dodgers, a near-unanimous World Series favorite, dragged a 5-9 record into Friday’s series opener against the San Diego Padres.

The early turbulence has been compounded by injuries to two of the sport’s biggest stars and by a slate of weather postponements across the Midwest, where late-season snow squalls forced the cancellation of six games in the season’s first 10 days. The result, executives and analysts said, is a young campaign whose contours have already shifted in ways that could echo into the summer.

“We try not to put too much stock in two weeks of baseball, but this is the kind of stretch that reshuffles a clubhouse’s expectations,” said Mark Halloran, the Orioles’ general manager, in a brief news conference at Camden Yards on Thursday. “Our young arms have given us a chance every single night. The bats are starting to follow.”

Baltimore’s rotation, anchored by 24-year-old right-hander Grayson Rodriguez, has posted a 2.41 ERA through the first 14 games, the best mark in the majors. Rookie catcher Daniel Vega, called up out of Triple-A Norfolk on April 8 after an injury to incumbent Adley Rutschman, has hit safely in all seven games he has started. The team’s run differential of plus-31 leads both leagues.

The Yankees, by contrast, have already cycled through three starting third basemen and watched designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton land on the 10-day injured list with a left calf strain suffered Sunday in Tampa. Manager Aaron Boone, addressing reporters before Wednesday’s loss to the Houston Astros, called the early slate “as unforgiving a stretch as I can remember in April.” New York is 5-9, last in the AL East.

In the National League, the Dodgers’ issues have centered on a bullpen that has blown four leads in the seventh inning or later. Closer Evan Phillips, who recorded 38 saves last season, has surrendered three home runs in five outings. President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Tuesday that the team was “evaluating internal options” rather than pursuing a trade, but acknowledged the relief corps had been “the clear pain point.”

Other unexpected starts have caught the attention of front offices. The Cincinnati Reds, who lost 95 games a season ago, are 9-5 and leading the NL Central, powered by a breakout from second-year shortstop Elly De La Cruz, who is batting .362 with five home runs and seven stolen bases. The Detroit Tigers, at 10-4, hold the AL Central’s top spot. The Texas Rangers, the defending AL champions, are 4-10 and have already shuffled their lineup three times.

“It is far too early to draw conclusions about playoff races, but it is not too early to identify which teams have answered an opening question and which have introduced new ones,” said Rebecca Tan, a baseball analyst at the Sports Business Group. “Baltimore has answered. Cincinnati has answered. The Yankees and Rangers are now asking questions they did not expect to be asking until June.”

The weather has played its own disruptive role. A late-season cold snap from April 6 through April 9 dumped snow on Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis, knocking out a Guardians-Royals series and forcing a Twins doubleheader scheduled for next week. The commissioner’s office said Friday that all postponements would be rescheduled, with most likely landing as part of split doubleheaders in late May.

Attendance, meanwhile, has trended modestly higher than at the same point last year, league officials said, with average per-game crowds up about 4 percent. Officials credited a slate of early-season interleague matchups, including a Yankees-Dodgers series in Los Angeles that drew sellout crowds across all three games last weekend, despite the Dodgers losing two of three.

The injury report has been heavier than usual. Beyond Stanton, the Atlanta Braves placed outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. on the injured list Monday with a hamstring strain, expected to keep him out at least three weeks. Houston’s Jose Altuve sustained a left hand contusion fouling a ball off his wrist Sunday and is day-to-day. Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco strained an oblique in batting practice Wednesday.

A handful of veterans, by contrast, have started strongly. San Diego’s Manny Machado is batting .341 with four home runs. Philadelphia’s Bryce Harper has reached base in all 13 games he has played. Milwaukee right-hander Freddy Peralta has struck out 32 batters across his first three starts, walking only four.

Asked about the broader picture, Tan cautioned against overreaction. “We have seen teams start 11-3 and miss the playoffs, and teams start 5-9 and win pennants,” she said. “The question is whether the early signal is sustainable. With Baltimore, the underlying numbers are real. With the Dodgers, the bullpen issue is fixable. It is, in some ways, exactly the start the league wanted: storylines everywhere, certainty nowhere.”

Major League Baseball is scheduled to release its first official All-Star ballot of the season on April 25. League executives said they expect the standings to look very different by then.