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SB Nation’s 2016 MLB season preview is here! So, like, read it.

Friday’s Say Hey, Baseball includes our season preview, eight pounds of mac and cheese, and Hyun Soo Kim refusing to head to the minors.

New York Mets v Washington Nationals
New York Mets v Washington Nationals
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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each morning, and find the things you need to see from within the SB Nation baseball network, as well as from elsewhere. Please hold your applause until the end, or at least until after you subscribe to the newsletter.

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We’re going to do things a little differently today. On Thursday, SB Nation released its 2016 MLB season preview, so today, we’ll give you a rundown of all the goodies you can find inside. It’ll give you something to do while you wait for Monday (or Sunday, as is the case for six of baseball’s 30 teams), if nothing else. It was this or more on Pablo Sandoval losing his job, okay? And we can just cover that last part with a couple of links, anyway.

Grant Brisbee spent many, many, many hours figuring out what each team would look like if Rob Manfred ordered every player back to their original teams. There are some legitimately frightening lineups and rotations that this Frankensteinian experiment has created, and that can be taken in either sense of the word. Yours truly took a look at the Mariners, who are slowly becoming baseball’s last cursed team as everyone else used to failure as their identity changes course. Then, Claire McNear did some digging, only to find out every single team now has additional protective netting. The game -- or at least, the fan experience -- is changing.

We answered the biggest questions in baseball, including some you probably weren’t asking. We locked Grant in a small, poorly lit room for days, and asked him to predict the entire 2016 season. We then locked him in a smaller room without light and told him to admit that all of his predictions were just absolute trash. That’s not the end of the preview, though! You still have 30 individual team pages you can read, with notes on key additions and departures, the best and worst-case scenarios for each team, and more. Plus, if you want to go even deeper, there are 30 individual team preview features you can find your way to, written by our team-centric sites. So, go. Get reading. You’ve got until Sunday afternoon to finish learning everything there is to know about the 2016 season.

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