It's that time of year: The projection systems for the 2023 MLB season have been released and baseball analysts are divulging their secret-sauce prophecies, so let's dig into the five teams that are most likely to take a step forward and possibly emerge as playoff surprises in 2023.
And, yes, no matter how loaded the top teams look now, there will be a surprise team or two in the postseason come October. When making predictions, I tend to default too easily to the previous year's standings even though the logical side of my brain that has studied these things understands that won't happen.