A baseball season consists of 30 different soap operas, each lasting six months. Twelve of the clubs get to extend their runs for as long as another month. Only one ends in true happiness.
The twists and turns for each team hinge on injuries, trades and fluctuations in performance, making the sport impossible to predict. Which is the beauty of it, the reason every season is so compelling. Baseball is many things. Rarely is it boring.
Here are my top 12 storylines for 2025, concluding with my 39th Annual Dumb World Series Prediction™. Yes, I’ve been doing this that long.