Not long after we learned that Major League Baseball would implement a season of 60 games, I wrote about how we should be looking for storylines and odd quirks instead of focusing on wins and losses – a position I still hold.
As it turns out, many fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well as players, have disagreed with that sentiment. Indeed, there was an insistence that I was wrong to suggest wins and losses don’t matter, much less the World Series. On MLB Radio, Trevor Williams said, “It’s more impressive this year to win the World Series.