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What To Watch For In The Wildest MLB Playoffs Ever

It seemed like baseball might never get here, but MLB’s regular season came to an end on Sunday, and the playoffs are at hand. And it’s going to get ridiculous: The postseason now has 16 teams — which should mean more chaos — and no home-field advantage for most of it, with neutral-site games in […]

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The Most Surprising Teams Of This Short MLB Season

A glance at the most likely playoff teams in our MLB prediction model shows a lot of the usual suspects from before the season began. Teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros were all supposed to make the playoffs, and all have either clinched spots or are overwhelmingly […]

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Winners And Losers In MLB’s New Playoff Format

Earlier this week, we released our MLB predictions to reflect each team’s chances during this year’s shortened, 60-game schedule. But it wouldn’t be baseball in 2020 without one last curveball before first pitch. In an eleventh-hour amendment to the 2020 season’s structure, the owners and players union agreed on Thursday to expand the postseason from […]

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Does A Short-Season MLB Champ Deserve An Asterisk?

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and union chief Tony Clark met in Arizona on Tuesday for the first time during the sport’s contentious labor negotiations, a conclave that represented progress after Manfred had described the stalled talks as “a disaster” to ESPN earlier this week. The new proposal from Manfred would see a 2020 […]

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The Nationals Wouldn’t Say Die

One of MLB history’s most improbable championship runs ended Wednesday night the only way it could — with an indestructible, indomitable Washington Nationals squad celebrating on the road after its World Series-clinching 6-2 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 7. It was Washington’s fourth win in Houston during the Fall Classic, making the Nats […]

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