The 60-game 2020 season will put a much larger emphasis on divisional games, as teams won’t play outside their region. For this year, that means the Cubs will see the Cardinals, Brewers and White Sox for a large percentage of those 60 games.
In conjunction with that, this week’s SB Nation Reacts survey asked baseball fans who they saw as their favorite team’s biggest rival. Some MLB teams got that sort of attention across the entire league. (The Marlins, Padres and Royals are the small words in the middle, teams that aren’t felt to be a big rival of anyone.