Shohei Ohtani for MLB fantasy MVP and other bold 2021 baseball predictions

As the curtain rises on another baseball season, it’s worth celebrating the fact that something we tend to take for granted every spring has, in fact, arrived. Going an additional three months without baseball, as we did last year, was not something any of us would like to repeat.

(Hint, hint, MLB and MLB Players Association officials …)

We’re coming off a season in which the designated hitter was used in every game, three starting pitchers still finished with ERAs under 2.00 and Luke Voit won the home run title with 22.

But spending so much time and effort trying to get back to a “normal” season shouldn’t blind us to the fact that part of the reason we love this game is because it rarely is normal.

In fantasy baseball, we try to figure out what’s most likely to happen over 162 games and construct our teams around that concept. But winning a fantasy league can often be a matter of finding a little nugget of truth that can lead us to the possibility of what might happen.

So instead of trying to make absolute sense of everything, why not allow our minds to go out on a limb a little and consider these (admittedly unlikely) possibilities that could define the 2021 season?

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