Making the transition from offseason grump to pre-season fan can be tough.

I’m going to say six weeks.

That’s the window of time in which we are ALL most into baseball, from the start of April until about mid-May. The teams haven’t defined themselves through monotonous losing or quiet domination, and it’s still a thirty-team scrum until those six weeks are up, when projections come through, slumps take form, and MVP candidacy is born.

After that, baseball becomes part of the...

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