Theoretically we are 10 days away from the first baseball games in 2020, but as much as I’d love to write about pennant races, trade deadlines and pitching match-ups, I have an uneasy feeling about the start of the 2020 baseball season. It isn’t just the absolute surge of cases that is currently ravaging the Sun Belt, although these charts from the New York Times showing cases continuing to skyrocket in California, Arizona, Texas and Florida are terrifying:
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It’s something Kris Bryant said last week that I can’t stop thinking about: “This is the easy part.