The Blue Jays and Mariners will play a winner-take-all game this evening in Toronto, with one team advancing to the World Series to play the Dodgers and the other sliding straight into baseball’s hot stove season. I’d love to see Seattle advance, though I don’t know if either team can get past Los Angeles, which seem destined to repeat. Regardless, I, like many Cub fans, am anxious to get the offseason underway.
We must, however, be careful of what we wish for. The procedural part of officially ending the 2025 season will kick off a strangely volatile offseason.