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Stephanie Apstein

SHOCKING: What s real and what s not among mlb opening week trends - You Need To See This

The 2026 season is not quite a week old, which means observers have begun to draw conclusions about the season. You can expect some of these trends to hold up. You can expect others to disintegrate within the month. What follows is an attempt to identify which are which.

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