After deploying to South Korea for a little over three months, returning home, starting the process of buying my first home, and clearing the Christmas hurdle, there’s something peaceful about sitting down and writing about baseball again on a day where the temperature is finally above zero in the middle of the afternoon. It’s a very nice change of pace from what my life has been over about the past six months. And because I missed the playoff chases and the postseason to a 14 hour time difference and demanding work schedule.
It’s difficult to call a season that culminated in a second consecutive division championship and a third straight NLCS appearance a disappointment, especially when it’s coupled with losing to the Dodgers, who were an absolute buzz saw for the bulk of 2017.