The baseball industry, media and fans will be rightly obsessed with what happens in Wrigley Field and Miller Park today, what happens in Coors Field, what happens with the Dodgers. For most baseball evaluators, however, the 2018 season is over. They have moved on to future questions.
Early last October, an executive with a team not participating in the postseason asked an honest question: "I've been in meetings all week -- what's going on in the playoffs?" Wrapped in the cocoon of future quests, he had no idea what had happened in the outside world.
For 10 teams, the dreams of a championship are still alive on this last day.