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


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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