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The start of a baseball season is a time for nearly-infinite optimism for all but the most helpless teams and their unfortunate fans. A team’s strengths seem unbeatable, a team’s weaknesses can be rationalized away, and you can imagine relatively smooth sailing to the playoffs and beyond.