America's pastime is back in action as 18 teams will face off on an opening day to continue the journey to October. The beautiful thing about baseball is the unpredictability of sport. As an example, will this may not be the exact level of MLB it is still one of the highest levels you can play baseball in the world. Tennesse vols baseball team this year was said to be one of the most talented college baseball teams of all time. This team didn't even come close to winning this year's college world series which truly explains how unpredictable the game of baseball truly is. Now with this being said the team that you may expect to win after the opening day's blowout which is bound to happen, doesn't mean a thing! Last year on opening day the Red Sox and Orioles faced off and the Orioles ended up beating the Red Sox three times in a row. By the end of the season, however, the Red Sox beat out the orioles for a wildcard spot in the playoffs, where they knocked out the New York Yankees as well as the Tampa bay Rays who were expected to go insanely far in the playoffs. 

    Another observation I can see is that the teams with the higher population actually tend to be some of the more successful teams. Now does this exactly make sense, no it truly does not, but it's very intriguing? Of course, there are a few exceptions to that statement such as the San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, and the St. Lewis Cardinals. These teams have a larger population than most but tend to do very well regularly in playoffs. On this note, we can look at teams that do not fit the high population and success statement. We can see teams such as the Angels and Cubs who have historically been terrible. The Cubs won their first world series in 108 years in 2016. The Angels have two generational young talents on their team currently and have still struggled to make their way through playoffs or even come close to anything at all. 

    Now disregarding the few teams that don't match the success and population hypothesis the rest of the MLB teams actually make sense. We can see teams like the Los Angelos Dodgers and the New York Yankees having substantially high populations compared to the rest of the teams. The New York Yankees have the most world series wins by a landslide at 27 while the Dodgers have been on an absolute tear the last few years winning the world series in 2020 and making it into the world series 7 game series countless amount of times. Therefore I can conclude that for the most part, the populations of teams have an indication of the team's success disregarding my 4 examples of teams that are a little lopsided statically. As I stated before, absolutely anything can happen in an MLB season and the team you expect to win on any given day will honestly most likely be the opposite team.