COVID-19 really did disrupt routines, affect players, and throw the schedule around like a canoe in a hurricane. The postseason really was longer, and thus more treacherous. The season really was too short to sort out all the tricks that small samples can play. Which World Series is the best ever? Sam Miller judges all 116 Fall Classics. And, of course, on individual levels, players had seasons that got them released, non-tendered or demoted.
The Red Sox (and, oddly, the White Sox) fired their managers. The Angels and Phillies dropped their general managers.
That last part didn't quite turn out to be true. Nobody would hold any losing seasons against them. And the losers - the other 29 teams - would get to put asterisks on their failures. Before the 2020 MLB season began, when we wondered whether the World Series champion would get an asterisk for the season being so short/anomalous/weird, I predicted this: The winner would be seen as just as legitimate as in any other year, especially with an extra round of playoffs making the October run that much harder.
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