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Passan: Inside a final week like MLB has never seen before

Just like that, the fastest, weirdest, pandemickiest baseball season ever has come and gone. Mathematics holds that a 60-game schedule is shorter than the standard 162, but the 2020 season has whistled by so quickly that in a way it feels more like it should be June than October.

And yet here we are, on the cusp of the MLB playoffs, and the season that almost wasn't and couldn't be and shouldn't bother trying is nearing completion. It's been a neat trick, pulling it all off, and while the buildup of six months has been compressed, a three-layer cake can be every bit as delicious as its 10-layer counterpart.