In less than 18 hours, there will be baseball. Sure, the Dodgers and Padres already played a two-game set in South Korea, and there are two rainouts already, but come Thursday 26 MLB teams will be in action, and the drama and tedium of the offseason will be behind us.
To get ready for Opening Day, our MLB experts — Jake Mintz, Jordan Shusterman, Russell Dorsey, Jack Baer, Liz Roscher and Jason Owens — made their predictions for this season, from the World Series winners to Shohei Ohtani’s home run total and everything in between.