As the decade comes to a close, we're left with plenty of MLB storylines to unpack over the last 10 years. In a loaded, perhaps impossible exercise, we asked our baseball staff to outline what defined the 2010s to them. Here's to the 2020s.
Tom Verducci
This was the decade in which technology exploded: the Statcast era. (The tracking technology rolled out halfway through the decade.) Layered upon the statistical revolution of the previous decade, technology changed how baseball not only is played but also how it is taught. Knowledge replaced wisdom, which is why managers, coaches and players all got younger.