MLB Bullets Has A Crystal Ball

I guess this is the final MLB Bullets before the games start to count. I don’t know if that means that MLB Bullets will start counting again.

• David Schoenfield looks ahead to the 2017 season and gives you all the dates you need to know.
• Anthony Castrovince spends exactly 30 words on each preview of all 30 teams.
• John Schlegel predicts all the division and playoff winners.
• Will Leitch predicts the postseason.
• Leitch also gives you a reason to watch all 30 teams. Like you need a reason to watch baseball.
• Just in case you only watch baseball for the fashion, Paul Lukas has a list of all the uniform changes for 2017.
• Mike Axisa has some milestones that should be achieved in 2017.
• Ken Rosenthal gives us his picks for all the postseason awards.
• Chris Cwik predicts ten players to break out in 2017.
• If Spring Training stats mean anything (and they don’t), Cliff Corcoran tells you who did well and who didn’t this March.
• Rob Arthur and Neil Paine of fivethirtyeight have “eight burning questions” for the 2017 season.
• Home runs are way up in baseball the past few seasons. Mike Petriello talks to players to see why they think they are hitting more home runs.
• There are a lot of great young shortstops in the majors right now, as we well know. Christopher Crawford writes that even more are on their way to the Show.
• One of those great young shortstops is the Dodgers’ Corey Seager. Robert Sanchez has a magazine profile piece on Seager.
• Eric Nusbaum has a piece on how Seager got so good.
• Still, the best player in baseball is a center fielder, not a shortstop. Michael Baumann writes about Mike Trout and how he doesn’t want to be a superstar, he just wants people to like him.
• Ichiro Suzuki plans to play until he’s 50. After that? “I’ll think I’ll just die.” At least wait until your induction to Cooperstown, Ichiro.
• Eddie Matz writes that from all indications, Bryce Harper will be back in 2017.
• Sam Miller predicts that Andrew Miller will change the way that relievers are used.
• Bob Nightengale makes the case that Rockies manager Bud Black is the ideal modern manager, or at least that the Rockies are counting on him being that.
• Nick Stephens thinks that a legacy of bad planning explains the Rockies poor recent history.
• The Rockies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, however, as they have signed a 30-year lease to stay in Coors Field.
• The Cardinals are close to a three-year extension with Yadier Molina.
• The Cards also put Trevor Rosenthal and three other pitchers on the disabled list to start the season.
• Mets starter Steven Matz will start the year on the DL.
• Mets closer Jeurys Familia was suspended 15 games under the domestic violence policy.
• The Nationals named Blake Treinen as their new closer.
• Rougned Odor signed a six-year extension with the Rangers that included two horses in the deal.
• The Twins sent Byung Ho Park down to the minors, despite a strong Spring Training.
• Angels pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who was nearly killed by a line drive last season, will wear a protective insert this year.
• There is a group working to bring an MLB team back to Montreal.
• The Giants are serious about hydration. So serious that they are going to award a “Golden Urinal” to the player who hydrates the best. The winner will be the M-V-Pee. Seriously. I didn’t make that up. It’s all in the article.
• Staying on potty training, are you a new parent? Are you a Cubs fan? (Of course you are) Now you can outfit your baby in new diapers decorated with the Cubs logo. Or maybe you want to get the Cardinals diapers so your child can poop all over the Redbirds. Thanks, Jessica Alba!
• Hit the dirt! Bees!
• Finally, the best part of the end of Spring Training. Watch Phillies first baseman Brock Stassi get overcome with emotion after finding out he made the Opening Day roster. Congratulations, Brock.

And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster.