Stretch drive: 3 storylines to follow as the 2016 MLB playoffs approach
 

Stretch drive: 3 storylines to follow as the 2016 MLB playoffs approach
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Major League Baseball this season has been, in a word, weird. Casual fans tuning into the final throes of the 2016 regular season just might think they're peering into a parallel world.*

Welcome to a reality in which the Chicago Cubs are **t only back in the playoff hunt, but at the top of the National League. A world where the Yankees bid a strange and sudden goodbye to Alex Rodriguez. A world where one of the Red Sox’s most effective starting pitchers looks like the second coming of knuckleball legend Tim Wakefield.

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