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The Super Bowl comes, the Super Bowl goes. Then pitchers and catchers report, spring blooms, and the baseball cycle begins again.
MLB seasons take their own novel tracks, but many a path is followed year after year. The rebuilding team that bursts into contention. The star prospect who turns into a star. The under-the-radar prospect who also turns into a star.
With 2023 officially reigning as “this year,” it can be helpful — alongside the eminently reasonable but less-than-imaginative projections — to visualize which players and teams might become the main characters that distinguish one season from the last.