MLB’s postseason is bigger and ... well, definitely bigger than ever. The 16-team derby for World Series rings — capping a difficult, pandemic-shortened season — begins Tuesday afternoon. Eight teams will be eliminated by the weekend, and the rest will proceed to unprecedented neutral sites to increase safety amid COVID-19 and play on until a champion is crowned in Texas in late October.
But there will be a lot of playoff baseball to watch.
Before it gets started, here are predictions that — with any luck — won’t go quite as wrong as everything else in 2020.