One way to explain the entertainment value of baseball’s rich regular season is to envision a very limited form of time travel.
Let’s say you — a person who knows the results of the baseball season so far and which players were chosen to start the 2023 MLB All-Star Game — return to January and inform Atlanta Braves fans that they will employ the National League’s top shortstop, despite Dansby Swanson’s departure in free agency. Then you watch as they formulate the most likely scenarios by which that will occur.
Guess No.