Before we go any further - and we’ve haven’t even gone anywhere yet - allow me to point out that I don’t even run this post most years. I run the Five Dumb Predictions for the upcoming MLB season every year, of course, but the checking in on post? My god, doing that every year would be embarrassing.
Since my picks this year turned out to be slightly better than 100% inaccurate, though, you’re damn right I’m going to run back through them. This will be my personal gloatation device.
Back on March 31st, on the eve of the 2021 regular season, I made a handful of half-investigated prognostications about the direction the year would take.