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Spring Training is always magical, as optimism overflows on the backfields in Tampa, Fla. Possibility is a salvation. Hope is a drug.
Especially after the past year.
Looking back, the thing about 2020 is the thing about baseball: Even on those rare occasions when it was almost normal, it still insisted on surprising. At last, baseball returned in late July, and with it, the long-awaited Yankees debut of Gerrit Cole. But injuries once again compounded and forced the team into Plans D through infinity. The Yankees, though, still clawed their way into the postseason, eventually bowing out in a series that, in the eyes of many observers, turned on a strategic ploy in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.