In a fundamental sense, every team enters a new MLB season with the same goal: win the World Series. That's what they say, anyway.
Realistically, we know this isn't exactly true. We can buy that every team wants to win the World Series, even if some of them don't seem to act like it. But we also know that championship teams take years to build and not every team is always quite ready to make a run at the game's ultimate prize.
With the 2021 season finally upon us, I'm going to wrap up the weeks of preseason forecasts and projections by setting some basic expectations for the new season.