We're just six games into the 2011 Major League Baseball season, but with each passing day, we are rapidly approaching historic levels of "What in the name of Abner Doubleday is going on here?" My friend's sister put it best: "If I turn my head upside down, the AL East standings make more sense." Welcome to Bizarro Baseball.

After the first six games of the season, we have two teams in the same division -- the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox -- with 0-6 records, only the second time since divisional play started that this has happened. The Baltimore Orioles, who have finished last in the AL East three years running and no better than fourth since 2005, are 5-1 and alone in first place.

After missing the playoffs last year, the Red Sox made by far the biggest moves of the offseason, trading for All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and poaching outfielder Carl Crawford from the division rival Rays for seven years, $142 million. Computer simulations by AccuScore gave Boston a 66.8 percent chance of making the postseason and projected the Red Sox to win 94.9 games. The starting pitchers began the season healthy, and expectations were so high, pundits had booked the Red Sox into the 2011 World Series.

Entering today, the Red Sox are 0-6, the team's worst start since 1945. They have been outscored 38-16 through six games and have received just one quality start. The much ballyhooed lineup returned to Fenway for today's home opener with a .181 batting average. Crawford is hitting .174 with four hits and one run scored. You don't need to be a stat geek to know that those numbers are bad. AccuScore has lowered Boston's projected wins to 85.7 and dramatically reduced its postseason chances to 36.6 percent.

I'm looking at this as a fan who has watched a lot of baseball over the past 30 years. This is an unfathomably bad start to the season. Especially for a team with such lofty expectations. A sweep by the defending AL champion Texas Rangers wasn't totally out of the question, but a sweep at the lowly Cleveland Indians? Good grief. I'm sure the Red Sox will turn it around and their slumbering bats will wake up. This is a good team. It may already start today. The Yankees haven't won an opener at Fenway Park since 1960.

The defending AL East champion Tampa Bay Rays were expected to regress this year with the departures of Crawford, Carlos Pena and their entire bullpen. Nobody picked Tampa Bay to go to the World Series. But what we've seen so far is mind-boggling. The Rays have scored eight runs in six games and have not had a lead this season, only the second team since 1900 to accomplish this dubious feat. The Rays have a .145 batting average through six games and have scored one run or fewer in five of those, the third team in the Live Ball Era to do that.

Yes, it's early in the 2011 season and sample sizes are small. Will the Red Sox win more than 87 games? Will the Orioles win the AL East? Will the Rays ever hold a lead again? Who knows? But Bizarro Baseball is very much a reality through the first week of 2011.

Information from ESPN Stats & Information was used in this report.