Simply by virtue of its volume, any baseball season will show us material that we’ve never seen before. Some of that new material will be otherwise unremarkable. And some of it will be weird. There are different genres—silly, or surprising, or just dumb—but all are weird. So here’s the result of the last 10 seasons of that: Enjoy a sampling of the decade in weird.
This Play: You probably have recent memories of some excellent baseball from the Nationals and Astros. Please rewind to 2012, when there was some baseball that was not only decidedly not excellent but arguably the least excellent baseball of the entire decade, like a slapstick remake of the worst error ever seen in Little League.