MLB 2022 predictions: Is the championship heading to Canada this year?

MLB will announce a new rule for next season which will allow managers a limited number of infield shifts a game. So it becomes a strategy of when to seek the defensive advantage. Should managers wait until the ninth inning? Keep their infield moves for certain players? Sounds like fun to me! DL

The New York Yankees somehow win 100 games. It’s been fun mocking the organization’s uncharacteristic lack of spending this offseason, particularly as the rest of the AL East has gotten tougher. But history tells us that the Yankees have an annoying knack of going on a tear right when everybody counts them out. HF

The Detroit Tigers, five years removed from their last winning campaign and three since losing a mind-numbing 114 games, will contend for a playoff spot until the final week of the regular season. BAG

Actual baseball, for 162 games, with fans in the seats. Between the pandemic and the work stoppage that I believed would kill the entire 2022 season, this campaign is as welcome as they come. DL

No longer wasting precious minutes of my life watching pitchers hit in the National League. With the newly adopted universal DH, baseball has finally fully entered the modern world. It’s a rare win for common sense in 2022’s America, although I will admit it was cool when Bartolo Colon hit a home run that one time. HF

The pandemic gave baseball commissioner Rob Manfred the perfect cover to enact a handful of experimental rules designed to cut down on overlong games and limit physical contact. Predictably (and tragically), the universal designated hitter is here to stay. But I was pleasantly surprised to see two of the others won’t be back for 2022: 1) seven-inning doubleheaders and 2) the extra-innings rule starting each