The 2021 MLB season is upon us. Coming off a coronavirus-shortened, all-around abnormal year, baseball will return to its usual 162-game schedule with just a few rule change holdovers from the 2020 weirdness, beginning with Thursday's opening day.
If you were tuned out or distracted grappling with the pandemic last season, we understand. Welcome back. The talent-stuffed Los Angeles Dodgers finally broke through and actually won a World Series, but even they aren’t super satisfied with that version of a championship. Those cheatin’ Houston Astros seemed to get what was coming to them … in the regular season, and then gasped back to life as a powerhouse in October.