With Opening Day set for tomorrow, we’ve reached the end of my annual six-part baseball season preview. And it’s also the hardest part. Because the NL West is perhaps the hardest division of them all to project. The Giants have won two of the last three World Series and haven’t exactly gotten any worse. Meanwhile, the Dodgers have the highest payroll in baseball and boast a loaded team for owners that have a “World Series or Bust” mentality. It’s going to be a very interesting race between the rivals.

Congratulations to the Dominican Republic on a very well-deserved championship. And with that, we now turn our attention back to Spring Training. We’re less than two weeks away from Opening Day, which has been back to the first Monday in April where it belongs this year. This year, of course, brings with it a bunch of changes, mostly involving the schedule